I HAVE JUST COMPLETED ANOTHER OF THOSE SESSIONS BEFORE THE HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND I AM GETTING JUST A BIT FED UP WITH THIS BUSINESS OF PUTTING ON A SHOW FOR THESE COMMITTEES.

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• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 11, 1956
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Call Bulletin,(34n Francisco, r3alifcrnia)
Monday, December 10, 1956
RED PECPA3ANDA FLOOD HUI
Cloee to 2,000,000 piecee of Conzr,unist propaganda - magasities, pamphlets,
films?and the like originating in Russia, Iron Curtain countries and 'China - ?
pour into San Francisco every year.
This startling disclosure was ra-..c.ie to the Roues subcommittee en un-
American activities as it opened local he rings today.
The testimony came from Irvin,' Fisnman, who was appointed by the. Treasury
Department two years ago to the job of controlling the propaganda flood on. a
national basis. Some 45 American pc rt5 a re under his jurisdiction.
Embassies' Roles
Fistmen revealed aleo that in a s.anpling of 100 attaches of Iron Curtain
countries' embassies anti consul. tea, eiere engaged in subversive activities -
32 in intelligence work against this country, 21 in Communist party activities
arrl 29 in other fieldl.
He said the check was m de by the Central. Intelligence Agency and that
these Red aides are immune from the laws against receiving propaganda material
because they are registered as foreign agents.
Wants It Labeled
Cheat= Clyde Doyle of the subcommittee asked riatisma to submit a ?
detailed misorandum of recommended legislation to stem the propaganda tide,
declaring:
"vie feel that anybody who wants tc read it should have it. ha the
recipient who disseminates it should say so, anti what it is.
This spate of foreign political material, Fishman said, Is kntercepted
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uncker the authority of the Foreign At?hts Registration amt. ?
Aimed at Students
"Most of it," he continued, is directed to any student organisations
? and colleges in the United States."
, During August, September and Cktober, he continued, more than 490,000
pirices of CoramunApt propaganda were intercepted, and recently he and his
aides caught-a major distribution of a publication called Student itook.
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Bid to Meat
This one was directed to even 5C b0 ol and student organisation &ova
junior high level anct invited students everywhere to attend an international
meet last =nth in one of the Iron '3artain countries. ? ??
In birther testimony Fiaha.an declii red Communist propaganda appears in
practically all of the world's languages, but that he has yet to see a .
piece of it labeled ao propaganda.
Communist agents, he went On, h.indle the distribution if the stuff slips
past the goirernment. He described one shipment NW (Oporto** intercepted as
a batch of puiported newsreel and feature filas designed to prove this country
used germ warfare in Korea.
"Red Cao rim s"
Much of the malarial, he added, attempts to depict the "glorics" of
life under the Soviets, with a lot of this dealing with Hungary recently.
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"It waks completely contrary to what has been reported in our newspapers,"
he said.
Fishman's. appeared followed brief testimony from Collector of Customs
Chester McPhee, who.said that 80 per cent of the 20,000 ships that enter this
port annually are from the Orient.
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The hearings are being held in tte jampacked courtroom of federal Judge
Michael J. Roche, frith deputy marshals on guard t? prevent outbursts.
Purposes a Oroup
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?Subcoamittoe Chairman Doyle of.Las Angeles, opened todnets session with
slushing statement bf the two major purposes of his group. ?
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"The first of these," he said, "concerns the deviou? influx of Communist
propaganda, which is flooding many areas of the United States from sources
behind the Iron Curtain.
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,m San Frare isco Chronicle
Tuesday, December 11, 1956
? PROhatS HERE A3SAIL RD DIPLOMATS
'Peter Triable
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House ft-or/con Activities gubcommittee, meeting 'here yesterdgys
blasted the diplomatic corps of Soviet-bloc countries as subversive and
theirs:11)&801os as possible circulr.tion centers.for ecenuniat propaganda.
Richard Arens, director of the subcommittee, told an open hearing he
had the Central Intelligence Agency ?theck the backgrounds of 100 "Iron
Curtain country" diplomats picked at random.
The CIA,.... said, reported that 32 of the group were in "active
intelligence work," 21 were in Communist organization work and 29 were
involved in "ether subversive activities." ?
20 efitnosais
The testimony was made as the subcommittee composed af Mepreseptatives
nide Doyle (D.-Cali.), chairman, and Cott= tee,
(Rsp-Ohie) ari Harold
Veld. (1ep-I11) called about 20 witnesses t9 the courtroom it Federal Judge
Michael J. Roche in the Post Office Building.
The Congroommen said they were interested in two things:
1. A "flood of Communist propaganda" that is coming into the United
States soil, and
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2. Pelibisal subversion 4r Communist agents. ? '
The diplomatic corps worried thei, they said, because SWIM if acre.
stringent lows were passed to control propaganda entering this eountrr,
diplomatic immunity would allow the material to be sent to embassies and
passed on from there.
C4ecking Unit.
As the first majOrwitness, the subcommittee called /rwing)lehnelnp'
deputy collector of Custom in New York and the director of tar" Open*.
units that Chock incoming bulk mail shipments for epropagosoin,.
. Tisanes revealed that one of the niost active units motor k? is ceistrel
is in San Fransisco. The others are at New York iind
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. Daring Wirt, September and Octobe
unit uncovered 156,573 packages containing
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? that were Considered proiaiganda.
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? ? U.nder. the Foreign k:ents Pegistrai-.....:m Act, he said, all matter determined.
to be propaganda from foreign cx:rur.'-,rie9Lisuppoiped to be labeled as sti4h. He
tlas yet to find any such ruhli:a*:.: !Je labeled, he testified. ?
Most of the matf,rial curing t?r San Francisco, he said, is 'printed in
? Russia, packaged in Red Cnina wdaw.211Era hers through Hong Kong.
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To back up his testimony be broqght into the ceartredi aim large mail
sacks. Most bore the *stencil, *Rep..blique Pepulaire De Chine.* ?
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Dandles ot ,purpitlets in I.!?e sac :-"Ft err andrasaed to persons throughout
the United States. r.,:ruler. cz.roe t 1c as "Watson' a China," "People's
China,* *New China Ad viLicsa intoSc???:1..n,* and *Social Alfieri, Comes to
Hungary.*
? ? Velds said the suboommittee dio r,,74- .1-ant to step such material from
coming into the U. S. but that propagmnda should be labeled as such Nut ?
related by the Department. of Justi7.e.
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Cheater HaoPhee, Connetor of lustoz8 here, also testified briefly. '
While no unailling witnesses were ca/led during the initial aeasian,
Doyle *tai, it clear that any 'person who created a diebarhenoe flaring the
hearing evald be toned out. Four were ejected fmn 'committal hearth. in
Loa Angolan last weak.
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