Communist infiltration of Hollywood motion-picture industry : hearing before the Committee on Un-American activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, first session (1951)

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COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF HOLLYWOOD MOTION- PICTURE INDUSTRY—PART 6 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1951 United States House of Kepresentatives, Subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities, Los Angeles, Calif. executive session A special subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activi- ties met pursuant to call at 9: 30 a. m., in Conference Room C, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, Calif., Hon. Donald L. Jackson presiding. Committee member present: Representative Donald L. Jackson. Staff member present: William A. Wheeler, investigator. Mr. Jackson. The chairman of the Committee on Un-American Activities has appointed me as a special subcommittee to conduct this hearing. (Whereupon the hearing continued with testimony not printed in this volume, together with the following:) Mr. Jackson. Will you call the next witness? Mr. Wheeler. Mr. Eugene Fleury. Mr. Jackson. Mr. Fleury, will you raise your right hand and be sworn ? Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you give before this subcommittee shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God ? Mr. Fleury. I do. TESTIMONY OF EUGENE FLEURY Mr. AVheeler. Will you state your full name, please ? Mr. Fleury. Eugene Strong Fleury. Mr. Wheeler. Where do you presently reside ? Mr. Fleury. 4524 Coldwater Canyon, North Hollywood. Mr. Wheeler. You are not represented by counsel ? Mr. Fleury. No. Mr. AVheeler. Do you desire to be? Mr. Fleury. What for ? Mr. Jackson. I should like to make a little preliminary statement here, Mr. Fleury, and that is that you are under no compulsion to answer any of the questions directed to you. You have the protection of the fifth amendment if you wish to claim it against possible self-incrimination. However, the measure of your cooperation with 2061