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House Un-American Activities Committee (view source)
Revision as of 20:10, August 20, 2007
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==Dies Committee (1938-1944)==
==Dies Committee (1938-1944)==
[[Image:Dies.jpg|thumb|275px|right|Rep. Martin Dies exhibits criminal records of [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO) officials.]]
The House Committee on Un-American Activities grew from a special investigating committee established in May of 1938 chaired by [[Martin Dies Jr.|Martin Dies]] and co-chaired by [[Samuel Dickstein (congressman)|Samuel Dickstein]], himself named in the Venona project as a Soviet agent. In pre-war years and during World War II it was known as the '''Dies Committee'''. Its work was supposed to be aimed mostly at German-American involvement in [[Nazi]] and [[KKK]] activity. As to investigations into the activities of the "Klan," the Committee actually did little. When HUAC's chief counsel Ernest Adamson announced that: "The committee has decided that it lacks sufficient data on which to base a probe," committee member John E. Rankin added: "After all, the KKK is an old American institution." Instead of the Klan, HUAC concentrated on investigating the possibility that the [[American Communist Party]] had infiltrated the [[Works Progress Administration]], including the Federal Theatre Project. Dies was a critic of the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO), having found 280 salaried CIO organizers within its ranks funded by the Soviet backed [[CPUSA]].
The House Committee on Un-American Activities grew from a special investigating committee established in May of 1938 chaired by [[Martin Dies Jr.|Martin Dies]] and co-chaired by [[Samuel Dickstein (congressman)|Samuel Dickstein]], himself named in the Venona project as a Soviet agent. In pre-war years and during World War II it was known as the '''Dies Committee'''. Its work was supposed to be aimed mostly at German-American involvement in [[Nazi]] and [[KKK]] activity. As to investigations into the activities of the "Klan," the Committee actually did little. When HUAC's chief counsel Ernest Adamson announced that: "The committee has decided that it lacks sufficient data on which to base a probe," committee member John E. Rankin added: "After all, the KKK is an old American institution." Instead of the Klan, HUAC concentrated on investigating the possibility that the [[American Communist Party]] had infiltrated the [[Works Progress Administration]], including the Federal Theatre Project. Dies was a critic of the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO), having found 280 salaried CIO organizers within its ranks funded by the Soviet backed [[CPUSA]].