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)

528 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY approximately four years. Prior to that time, I was associated with the Storj DepartiiiPiit of Paramount Pictures, Inc., for approximately nine .vears. My first associatidti with Clialnicrs "Slirli" Goodlin was tliron;;!! his manager, Frank Xicliol.s, and tliat was in approximately March 1947. Prior to that time, I had been informed about Mr. Goodlin by our California office throufjh memoranda that I received and telephone and teletype messages I had exchanged. I had learned from these conversations that Mr. Goodlin was a test pilot for the Bell Aircraft Corp. and he was preparing to pilot a rocket plane through the supersonic structures and that he was a most distinctive pilot and, therefore, one about whom the public would be anxious to learn and whose articles or stories would have considerable interest to the public. From the ixnnt of view of capitalizing on the reputation of Mr. Goodlin and his knowledge and ability, I was asked to endeavor to sell articles or stories written, or to be written, by Mr. Goodlin or others in association or collaboration with him. In order to carry this ,out, I met with Mr. Nichols, and he gave me the names of the various magazines tiiat had approached him or Mr. Goodlin with regard to obtaining articles from Mr. Goodlin. As I recall, he stated that these magazines were Collier's and Look. There may have been some others, but I don't recall their names at this time. The one I thought most desirable for Mr. Goodlin was Collier's Magazine. In this connection, I endeavored to bring about some association between Mr. Goodlin and Collier's Magazine. Collier's had approached Mr. Goodlin directly through Bell Aircraft Corp before we ever entered into the situation. I, William Morris Agency, and our California agency were acting in this transaction solely in the capacity of agents and advisors to Mr. Goodlin, for which we would receive a commission of 10% of the amount Mr. Goodlin earned by reason of the services we were to render. I communicated with the Managing Editor, Joe Alex Morris, with whom I had many transactions in my capacity as agent for various authors, to inquire as to the interest of Collier's in an article or story from Mr. Goodlin. He in turn communicated with Frederick R. Neely, their Aviation Editor in Washington, who in turn informed me that he had been in touch with Walter Bonney, who was in charge of public relations for Bell Aircraft, regarding a possibility of supersonic flight by Goodlin, that they would be interested in publishing an article on the flight, if it were successful. Actually, they were not interested in Goodlin and had originally asked for an exclusive story on Woolems, who was Bell Aircrait's test pilot before Goodlin and who had been killed in a plane crash last year. The only material that I saw pi-epared by Mr. Goodlin or anyone associated with him was sent to me by our California office. It consisted of generalized statements which had no relationship whatsoever with the supersonic flight. I just have a general recollection of this material, but I am positive that it did not contain any secret information or any confidential information or any technical information of any kind. I submitted this to Collier's Magazine, and Collier's turned it down. The only other contact I had with Mr. Goodlin or his manager, Mr. Nichols, came in the form of a telephone conversation between ]\Ir. Goodlin and my assistant, Esther Mrus, which was relayed to me by Miss Mrus, and that was to the effect that Mr. Goodlin stated that he had been successful in selling this article to the Air Trails Magazine. I am informed Miss Mrus advised him that, we were pleased that he had been successful in selling the article and wished him well. No conmiission or compensation of any kind was ever paid to William Morris Agency for our efforts on liis behalf. We do not act for anyone at the present time in the file of aviation. Furthermore, we do not have any information of any kind which by any stretch of the imagination would be deenuMl to be confidential, .secretive, or which in any way involves the safety or welfare of the United States Government. /S./ Helen Stkauss. Sworn to before me this 25th day of October 1947. /S./ Leon Kellman, Leon Keixman, Notarif Public New York City, Reg. No. S37-K. Commission expires March 30, 1949.