Hearings regarding the communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session. Public law 601 (section 121, subsection Q (1947)

526 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY Witness my hand and the seal of the House of Representatives of the United States, at the city of Washington, tliis 2r)th day of September, 1947. (Signed) J. Paknell Thomas, Chairman. Attest : John Andrews, Clerk. Exhibit 30. Letter New York London Chicago Hollywood Executive OflSees Telephone Circle 7-2160 Established 1898 William Mokris Agency, Inc. Rockefeller Center, 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. October 27, 1947. Mr. J. P. Thomas, Chainnan, House Committco, Washington, D. C. Dear Sii: : On behalf of John Weber of California I am handing you herewith a photostatic copy of a sworn-to statement made by him. 1 am also including a ph(;tostatic copy of a similarly sworn-to statement by Helen Straus of New York. 1 will send to you the originals of these statements as soon as I can have copies of them made for the members of your committee. 1 ask that you immediately p. ace these statements into the record of the present hearings and that you acknowledge to me at my office at the adtlress above given, that this has been done. Yours truly, William Morris (Signed). William Morris, President. Cable : "Willmorris" New York. "Willholl" Hollywood. Exhibit 31. Affidavit State of California, County of Los Angeles, ss: John Weber, being first duly sworn, deposes and says : I am a resident of Los Angeles, California, and a literary agent employed as such by the William Morris Agency, Inc., since shortly after my honorable discharge from the Army on October 'IS, 1944. Around the beginning of the year 1947 I met Chalmers "Slick" Goodlin, who was introduced to me as a client of the William Morris Agency, Inc. At this time Mr. Goodlin advised me that he was interested in securing publication of material concerning his e.xploits as a rocket pilot. He also told me of interviews which he had had concerning thij in the past with a number of magazines, including Time, Newsweek, Life Magazine, and the American Magazine, and he stated tliat other national magazines, such as Collier's Magazine and Look Magazine appeared interested in securing articles. I told him that I thought that the market for such magazine stories should be very good, and I assured him that my associates who handle magazine matters would do everything they could to help him. Since this meeting I have only met Goodlin on no more than one or two other occasions wlien he happened to be in the office to discuss his business affairs with the persons in the office who were handling them. In these conversations, which were very brief, I merely inquired how things were progressing in a very general way, and he seemed to be optimistic concerning the possibility of publication. He did not in any of my conversations with him ever give me any written material, nor did he orally discuss in any detail his material or his experiences as a test pilot. I understand that Mr. Goodlin did submit to my associates certain written material which he had prepared with the knowledge of the Army Air Forces and I5ell Aircraft Corporation, and that this material, which was never read by me and which was not, in fact, sold through me or the William Morris Agency, Inc., is appearing in the January issue of Air Trails Magazine and in a condensed version in Reader's Digest for that month. I am attaching herewith a newspaper report of the true facts as related by Goodlin to the Los Angeles Herald Express on October 22, 1947. I categorically deny the entire story reported in the local newspapers as the testimony of John C. Moffitt before the House Un-American Activities Committee ihat I obtained or attempted to obtain from Chalmers "Slick" Goodlin secrets