Abstract

Confessions of a 33d-Degree Subversive

In 1948, the U.S. Department of Justice published a list of subversive organizations and, according to the press, the author was, or had been, or was alleged to be, connected with most of them. Then, in the spring of 1950, Congress appropriated a large sum of money for the Un-American Activities Committee to prepare and publish a sort of Who's Who in American Subversion. The author belonged to or was on the sponsor list, or appeared on programs of several of those that favored the Loyalist government against Franco in Spain, went through the motions of protecting the foreign-born, believed in improving the status of Negroes. The Un-American Activities Committee never informed the author of the data it had on his subversiveness.