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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 423 Mr. Dmytrtk. Offhand they are the only ones I can recall. Mr. Tavenner. Then yon were transferred to another group ? Mr. Dmytrtk. I was transferred to a special group. This was toward the end of the Communist Political Association. I don't know exactly why this special group was organized. I was told later—I believe I heard it at the original hearings—they were called the Davis group. Mr. Tavenner. You say you heard it was called the Davis group ? Mr. Dmttryk. Yes. They started naming the groups after famous dead Communists. They wouldn't use live ones because they didn't know how they would wind up. That group met in San Fernando Valley. They were people either considered supersecret or super- prestige. I attended two meetings. I have no idea what the ultimate purpose of the group was, but I know it was a secret thing. I attended two meetings of this group. One meeting was at Sidney Buchman's house, although Sidney Buchman was not present at the meeting. Mr. Tavenner. Can you give us the circumstances under which you met at his house % Mr. Dmttryk. I can't say exactly, except Adrian Scott had been called and told to bring me along and come to a certain person's house. We went there and found no one there, and a servant told us to go to Sidney Buchman's house, and we did. Sidney Buchman was not there. In this group were John Howard Lawson; Adrian Scott and my- self; a writer named Francis—this is the masculine Francis—Fara- goh, F-a-r-a-g-o-h, and his wife, Elizabeth Faragoh; and a couple I had never met before; the man's name, I believe, is George Corey, a writer. Mr. Tavenner. C-o-r-e-y? Mr. Dmytrtk. Yes; and his wife: I don't know her first name, Mrs. Corey, who was an advertising executive with a downtown store in Los Angeles. She had nothing to do with the motion-picture business. Mr. Wood. The committee will recess until 3 o'clock this afternoon. (Thereupon, at 12: 30 p. m., a recess was taken until 3 p. m. of the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION (The committee reconvened at 3 p. m., pursuant to adjournment.) Mr. Wood. Let the record show the following committee members are present: Walter, Frazier, Wood, Velde, Kearney, Jackson, and Potter. A quorum is present. You may proceed, Mr. Counsel. TESTIMONY OF EDWARD DMYTRYK—Resumed Mr. Tavenner. Mr. Dmytryk, you were at the time of taking the recess telling us those who were members of the special cell to which you were transferred, or special group. I believe you probably named all whom you can recall, but I want to be certain about that. Mr. Dmytryk. Yes. There were no other members in that group, at least who ever attended. Mr. Tavenner. The list you gave comprised all who were mem- bers of that particular group?