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Inc. But the interesting fact was the enormous prestige which Schmidt could bring to bear "as an individual." Armed with his letter, the network felt safe in lifting its ban against the actor. In its support of political screening, AWARE operates according to this logic: Communism is a conspiracy; therefore Communists and all those who collaborate with them, knowingly or not, are conspirators. A "pattern" of Communistic associations is a pattern of conspiracy. So not to support political screening is to support political conspiracy. Those who oppose blacklisting, whether they know it or not, are supporters of the Communist conspiracy. AWARE states frequently that as an organization it does not blacklist. This is true. The organization has about the same rela- tionship to institutionalized blacklisting as a front group has to the Communist Party: it lends position, prestige and power to the practice. But AWARE goes further than that. AWARE has formalized "clearance." It has published a guide on the subject called The Road Back (subtitled Self-clearance). The Road Back asks: "How many Communists — and those who helped them or permitted themselves to be put in the light of helping communism — manifest a change of heart and mind, perform deeds indicative of this change and thus clear themselves of suspicion and return to normal em- ployability?" It goes on then to discuss how the truly repentant can be recognized. The first problem of "rehabilitation" is "who shall judge these transitions?" AWARE feels that the judgment should not "rest in any official investigating committee or in some private group." The principle of "individual responsibility for individual acts" is to be determined by "that part of public opinion concerned." In the rest of the pamphlet, however, it is made clear that AWARE regards it- self as a tremendously important, if not decisive, "part of the public opinion concerned" in the case of the radio-tv industry. 134