Current Strategy and Tactics of Communists in the United States: Greater Pittsburgh Area: Hearing Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, March 10, 1959, Parts 1-3

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Page 389 - The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommittee, is authorized to make from time to time investigations of (i) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States, (ii) the diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American propaganda that is instigated from foreign countries or of a domestic origin and attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constitution, and (iii) all other questions in relation...
Page 346 - Do you honestly apprehend that if you told this committee while you are under oath whether or not you are now a member of the Communist Party, you would be supplying information which might be used against you in a criminal proceeding?
Page 499 - May 19, 1944, were you a member of the Communist Party ? (The witness conferred with his counsel.) Mr.
Page 411 - Wachter, in response to a subpena which was served upon you by the House Committee on Un-American Activities ? Mr.
Page 389 - Mr. ARENS. I respectfully suggest, Mr. Chairman, that will conclude the staff interrogation of this witness. Mr.
Page 389 - Constitution, and (iii) all other questions in relation thereto that would aid Congress in any necessary remedial legislation. The Committee on Un-American Activities shall report to the House (or to the Clerk of the House if the House is not in session) the results of any such investigation, together with such recommendations as it deems advisable. For the purpose of any such investigation, the Committee on Un-American Activities or any subcommittee thereof, is authorized to sit and act at such...
Page 327 - And during all that time you have been a member of the Communist Party at the behest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ; is that correct ? Mr.
Page 466 - States; (3) to give information under oath as to his nationality, circumstances, habits, associations, and activities, and such other information, whether or not related to the foregoing, as the Attorney General may deem fit and proper...
Page 390 - To assist the Congress in appraising the administration of the laws and in developing such amendments or related legislation as it may deem necessary, each standing committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives shall exercise continuous watchfulness of the execution by the administrative agencies concerned of any laws, the subject matter of which is within the jurisdiction of such committee; and, for that purpose, shall study all pertinent reports and data submitted...
Page 311 - States of America in Congress assembled, * * * PART 2— RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RULE X SEC.

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