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for the Advancement of Colored People assigned to Arkansas, had been discharged from the United States Army for security reasons. Mr. Bennett also introduced an article which appeared in the Arkansas Gazette September 7, 1957, identifying Clarence Laws as Field Secretary for the NAACP in Arkansas; he also intro- duced a letterhead showing the national officers and board of directors of the NAACP, and an answer to an interrogatory in a suit filed against the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund by the State of Arkansas, which showed that Dr. Vernon McDaniel, an associate of Dr, Charles Gomillion, made a survey regarding racial integration in 20 cities and towns in Arkansas, including Little Rock and Pine Bluff, and was paid ‘bare ae i Crit in “) 18 years, testified that upon the request of Bruce Bennett, he a secured from the House Un-American Activities Committee informa- tion concerning the officers and directors of the NAACP, and introduced it at the hearing, It reflects that practically all of the national officers and directors of the NAACP have been cited at least five, and up to 176 times as being affiliated with communist or communist front organizations, From the testimony of the above witnesses and LbLLS.,. _we therefore.£indthat~the-nationel~and-locel-~officers—and— directors of the NAACP are extremely sympathetic with communist or communist front organizations. (B) MANY ORGANIZATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN CITED AS SUBVERSIVE OR WHICH HAVE BEEN INFILTRATED WITH COMMUNISTS AND COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZERS HAVE INTER- LOCKING DIRECTORS AND OFFICIALS WITH THE NAACP AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN ACTIVE IN eh asen ARKANSAS, i Ie 7 és PF pry B.{Matthews testified that he was Director of Re- search between the years of 1938 and 1945 for the Special ebew am ~ Ci. te ee > oo ' the Ok “7 Ly ses . . /- - Ve A ~19- ci swan an hn he me Ko in , a 2 Hon, coogi, who has been a , Member of Congress for = eres en ee f