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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 467 Mr. Tavenner. Were you affiliated with the Progressive Citizens of America? Mr. Gough. I decline to answer on the grounds previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. Your name appears as one of those on a brief amicus curiae filed with the Supreme Court of the United States in the cape against Trumbo and Lawson. Will you tell the committee the circum- stances under which you permitted the use of your name on that brief, if you did authorize it to be done ? Mr. Gough. I must decline to answer on the grounds I stated earlier, sir. Mr. Tavenner. Mr. Gough, there has been testimony before this committee by Mr. Sterling Hayden and also by Mr. Marc Lawrence, the effect of which is that you attended certain Communist Party meet- ings at which each of them was present. Mr. Hayden testified that you attended several of the meetings that he attended, but he did not state that he definitely knew that you were a member of the Com- munist Party. I asked him this question : Do you have any knowledge on your own part as to whether or not he was a member of the Communist Party? referring to you, and Mr. Hayden answered: Well, I would say it would probably be safe to assume that he was. Then I said : I don't want you to assume it. And Mr. Hayden said: I have absolutely, categorically, no knowledge that be was. Did you attend Communist Party meetings with Mr. Hayden, or at which Mr. Hayden was present? Mr. Gough. I must decline to answer on the grounds previously stated. Mr. Wood. Mr. Gough, there is no compulsion on your part to decline. When you say you must decline, do you mean you do decline ? Mr. Gough. I am sorry. I am giving it to you in too many words. Mr. Wood. Do you decline? Mr. Gough. I do decline. Mr. Wood. For the reasons you have previously stated ? Mr. Gough. Yes; thank you. Mr. Tavenner. In the course of the testimony of Mr. Marc Law- rence, when he was asked the names of persons who attended Com- munist Party meetings with him and who belonged to Communist cells to which he had been assigned, this question was asked: Were there others whose names you can now recall? Mr. Lawrence. Well, there were kids at the lab that I don't recall, whose names I don't remember. They were also at the cell meetings. I don't remember them. This is what I do remember. This is actual. There was a meeting held at Karen Morley's house one night in which there was a kind of bunch of actors. Sterling Hayden was there. Larry Parks was there. Tbey were discussing some big thing about what to do with the actors. There was a lot of fuss made at the time. And I remember Sterling and I remember Larry. I remember Anne Revere, Howard Da Silva, Lloyd Gough, and these people. That is what I do remember. Now, I don't know if these people were members of the Communist Party, but it was supposed to have been a closed cell. I couldn't identify these people.