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Naval Intelligence, Military Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency--their evidence was always received, you see, as anybody else's was, and often there would be cross-references. The F.B.I. has knowledge of everything and the other intelligences have cross-references of information that the F.B.I. has.

There had been a great central pool during the War--it was a very dangerous thing--a central pool of what are called “investigative leads”. Investigative leads are just things that may occur in a newspaper, or an anonymous letter, or something or other, that says so and so is a Communist or so and so is a traitor. That all goes into the file, and the people who are working on those investigative leads cut out clippings, out of newspapers.

Well, there was one clipping--this made a big public scandal--when, at a meeting that was held during the War, it was reported in the public Press that this meeting was held. It had no known Communist purpose in the meeting. It was a general wartime rally for something or other, you know. “On the platform sat” --this was the ordinary reporter--“the following persons,” and there were two well known Communists, and then Mrs. Robert Taft and Mr. So and so and so forth.

Well, that got into the investigative leads file, and one of these unAmerican Committee affairs discovered this.