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Scope and Contents

September 1942-July 1943. 307 pp.: List of radical artists, writers, actors, and musicians; Communist influence in labor unions; Harry Carlisle; Communist front organizations and activities; LATSE; films of a propaganda nature; Mission to Moscow; writers' unions; establishment of American Legion Union Post [Cinema Post #561].

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July 1943-April 1944. 228 pp.: Mission to Moscow; films of a propaganda nature; Warner Brothers Pictures; Cinema Post #561; Northwest Section (Movie Industry), Los Angeles County Communist Party organization and membership list; Screen Writers Guild; AFL and independent unions; history of Communist infiltration; Communist front organizations; Hollywood Democratic Committee.

Scope and Contents April 1944 cont.-August 1944. 283 pp.: Propaganda in films; Motion Picture Labor Committee for Political Action; Northwest Section (Movie Industry), Los Angeles County Communist Party organization and membership list; history of Communist infiltration; Mikhail Kalatozov; Hollywood Writers Mobilization; League of American Writers; Communist and Communist-front organizations' membership subdivided into producers, directors, writers, actors and actresses, labor, and miscellaneous; Hollywood...

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October 1944-March 1945. 180 pp.: History of Communist Infiltration; Communist Political Association activities; Hollywood Democratic Committee; AFL Political Action Committee activities; Cecil B. DeMille; Communist infiltration of RKO Radio Pictures@CIO Political Action Committee; CSU; Hollywood Writers Mobilization; strike activities; Herbert Sorrell.