WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA-PART 2

BASED UPON TESTIMONY OF MATTHEW CVETIC
(Undercover Agent)

COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

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APPENDIX

INDEX

MARCH 24, AND 25, 1950

Printed for the use of the Committee on Un-American Activities

KF27 .45 1950

COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES

UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JOHN S. WOOD, Georgia, Chairman

FRANCIS E. WALTER, Pennsylvania
BURR P. HARRISON, Virginia
JOHN MCSWEENEY, Ohio
MORGAN M. MOULDER, Missouri

RICHARD M. NIXON, California
FRANCIS CASE, South Dakota
HAROLD H. VELDE, Illinois
BERNARD W. KEARNEY, New York

FRANK S. TAVENNER, Jr., Counsel
LOUIS J. RUSSELL, Senior Investigator
JOHN W. CARRINGTON, Clerk of Committee
BENJAMIN MANDEL, Director of Research

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EXPOSÉ OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA-PART II, BASED UPON TESTIMONY OF MATTHEW CVETIC (UNDERCOVER AGENT)

FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1950

UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES,

Washington, D. C.

The committee met, pursuant to call, at 4 p. m. in room 226, Old House Office Building, Hon. Francis E. Walter presiding until arrival of Hon. John S. Wood (chairman).

Committee members present: Representatives John S. Wood (arriving as noted), Francis E. Walter, Francis Case, Harold H. Velde, and Bernard W. Kearney (arriving as noted).

Staff members present: Frank S. Tavenner, Jr., counsel; William Jackson Jones, investigator; John W. Carrington, clerk; and A. S. Poore, editor.

Mr. WALTER. Are you ready to proceed?

Mr. TAVENNER. Yes, sir.

Mr. WALTER. Mr. Cvetic, will you raise your right hand. You swear the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

Mr. CVETIC. I do.

TESTIMONY OF MATTHEW CVETIC

(The first portion of testimony of Matthew Cvetic on March 24, 1950, concerns communism in Cambria County, Pa., and is printed under title, "Exposé of the Communist Party of Western Pennsylvania," page 1345.

Mr. WOOD. General Kearney.

Mr. KEARNEY. Mr. Cvetic, you have been on the stand now several days. Does this complete your testimony? Have you anything else to testify to regarding Communist activities?

Mr. CVETIC. Mr. Kearney, I can't say "Yes" or "No" to that. Any time this committee would like to query me on any phase, I will be available.

Mr. KEARNEY. I am referring particularly to your own file you brought here.

Mr. CVETIC. I think so. This is a case where I was asked if I knew anything else about Cambria County. While there are many things in the files we probably could talk about or testify to, the investigators have gone over the files and we took out what we thought were the most important phases.