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336 COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY Mr. Tavenner. Lester Cole. You are acquainted with Lester Cole, are you not ? Mr. Garfield. Not acquainted. I know him. Mr. Tavenner. Were you closely enough acquainted with him to have knowledge of his Communist Party membership, activities, or ideas? Mr. Garfield. No. I didn't know him that well. Mr. Kearney. Mr. Chairman. Mr. Wood. General Kearney. Mr. Kearney. I would like to have stated for the record as to whether the names counsel is mentioning are or not, according to the files of the committee, members of the Communist Party, or just indi- viduals in Hollywood. I say this for the reason that, if they are not, it seems to me to be rather unfair to these individuals to place their names in the record without making some statement as to whether or not they are Communists. Mr. Tavenner. The person that I have just inquired about was stated to be a member of the Communist Party by a witness, I think, in the course of these hearings, and there is information in the com- mittee's files indicating Communist Party membership of all Mr. Kearney. Of all the individuals you have mentioned ? Mr. Tavenner. Of all I have specifically inquired about as to his association with them. There were one or two individuals mentioned in the beginning, in connection with his business enterprises, that that would not apply to, or at least that I am not informed about. One, for instance, is the person who acted as his agent; I think two persons who acted as his agent. I do not recall any information relating to those two. Mr. Moulder. In other words, there is no evidence whatsoever that they were members of the Communist Party ? Mr. Tavenner. Not to my personal knowledge. Mr. Kearney. The name Biberman—he was one of the 10 convicted Hollywood writers, was he not ? Mr. Tavenner. As to Biberman, there is evidence relating to him. As to Elizabeth Leech, she has been mentioned several times during the course of the hearings as a party functionary. Hugo Butler is under subpena to appear here. There is information relating to "Hy r Kraft as being a member of the Communist Party; and the rest of those whose names I mentioned. And I would like to ask you if you were acquainted with Frank Tuttle? Mr. Wood. Spell it. Mr. Tavenner. T-u-t-t-1-e. Mr. Garfield. I hardly knew him. I knew who he was. He was a director, but I never worked with him. Mr. Tavenner. Were you acquainted with George Willner, W-i-1-l-n-e-r? Mr. Garfield. I knew him: yes. We were members of the same tennis club in Beverly Hills called the Beverly Hills Tennis Club. Mr. Tavenner. Were you closely enough associated with him to have any knowledge concerning his Communist Party activity or re- lationship or affiliation? Mr. Garfield. No. I had no knowledge of it—none whatsover. We never discussed that.