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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 201 Mr. Tavenner. Have you consulted or collaborated in any of your work with an individual by the name of Fred I. Rinaldo? Mr. Lees. I refuse to answer the question on the ground previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. Are you acquainted with an individual by the name of Elizabeth Leech ? ' Mr. Lees. I decline to answer. Mr. Tavenner. Sometimes referred to as Elizabeth Leech Glenn? Mr. Lees. I decline to answer that question on the ground previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. Are you acquainted with Carl Winter ? Mr. Lees. I decline to answer that question on the grounds previ- ously stated. Mr. Tavenner. Are you acquainted with Waldo Salt? Mr. Lees. Waldo Salt happens to have traveled across the country with me. I know him as a writer. Mr. Tavenner. Did you attend a meeting in September of 1943 with Waldo Salt—rather, at the home of Waldo Salt—which was attended by Carl Winter and Elizabeth Leech ? Mr. Lees. I decline to answer that question on the ground previ- ously stated. Mr. Tavenner. Mr. Lees, the committee is in possession of informa- tion indicating that you were issued a registration card No. 47172 in 1944 in the Communist Party. In fact, it was—yes; I think that is right—for the year 1945. Were you issued that card, that registration card ? Mr. Lees. I decline to answer that question, Mr. Tavenner, on the ground previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. In 1944 were you the holder of Communist Political Association Book bearing number 4607 ? Mr. Lees. I decline to answer that question for the same reasons. Mr. Tavenner. Was there issued to you a 1943 Communist Party book bearing number 25136 ? Mr. Lees. I decline to answer on the previous grounds, previously given. Mr. Tavenner. There was testimony given here before this com- mittee yesterday by Mr. Sterling Hayden. Do you know Mr. Hayden'? Mr. Lees. I was in the room at the time Mr. Hayden made that statement, and I recall him saying something to the effect that he was a member of some sort of cell that contained back-lot workers, and the only white-collar worker he knew about was someone named Bernie. And I was surprised when he mentioned the name "Robert Lees" in this hearing. And the committee declined or didn't seem to bother to question further Mr. Sterling Hayden on that question. Mr. Wood. You are asked now if you know him. Mr. Lees. What was that? Mr. Wood. The question was asked you by counsel if you know Sterling Hayden. Mr. Lees. Well, I have seen him here at this meeting. Mr. Tavenner. You know T that wasn't my question. Are you ac- quainted with Sterling Hayden?—not whether you have seen him. Mr. Lees. Well, on the basis of what happened here the other day and the name and the questions you're asking me, I decline to answer that question on the ground previously stated.