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

COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 2103 1 say that that is the crux of this investigation, so I urge—you have been, to this point, fully cooperative, and 1 urge you to not withhold the names of your associates and to cooperate fully in that regard. While I cannot, of course, state the action of the subcommittee upon its arrival here in Los Angeles with respect to the open hearings, 1 will say again that my personal predilection is to go as easy as possible upon those who do cooperate with us at this point of the healings. I thought I should put that statement in, not as a threat or not as a promise, but simply to make our position clear, especially with respect to those who are engaged in the professional arts and those whose livelihood may well be at stake, and so I do solicit your full coopera- tion at this particular period in the hearings. All right, Mr. Wheeler. Mr. Arnold Krieger. May I make a statement here£ Mr. Jackson. Yes, of course, Mr. Krieger. Mr. Arnold Krieger. When my brother was served with this sub- pena and he brought the subpena to me, my advice to him w T as to dis- close to this committee as much information as was available to him and to his memory. It must be remembered that he has not been a member of the Communist Party for a matter of 6 or 7 years.. We ap- preciate that many things, particularly those that are not favorable, do not remain in our memories too vividly. We try to forget them. I think that Dr. Krieger has shown his cooperation, even prior to this hearing. I don't know whether you are cognizant of the fact that the FBI took him to Canada as a witness against Mr. Jackson. I have been so informed. Mr. Arnold Krieger. Yes. It so happens that we are a family of professional people. He, being the youngest, got the wrath of all of us when that story broke. We knew nothing of it prior to the time he went to Canada. The thing that I want in the record is that he has been advised that he is to give this committee such information as is within his memory and, I think, after the talk that I had with him, that when he says he doesn't remember, that he honestly is giving the right information. Mr. Jackson. I am quite willing to accept that in good faith as being a true statement. I merely put my few remarks in there because Mr. Arnold Krieger. We appreciate that. Mr. Jackson. I wanted them to be in the record. Go ahead, Mr. Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler. Do you recall any additional people that you knew to be members of the Communist Party ? Dr. Krieger. As members of the party or in the particular cell that I belonged to? Mr. Wheeler. The particular cell that you belonged to. Dr. Krieger. I can't honestly remember some of the names. I can pictures some of the faces. Perhaps if some of the names were re- called to me I might know. Mr. Wheeler. How many doctors were in this group % Dr. Krieger. Well, that is something I can't honestly answer you, sir, because some of the people at some time—first of all, none of us were told what the other one was. It was only by association that some of us found out what each other—who we were or what we did and so, therefore, there may have been other doctors in there and I did not know that they were doctors.