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~ my , ~ 2 Security of March 18, 19, and 20, 1954, Highlander Folk School is revealed through sworn testimony ks having been & center of subversive activity since 1940 or earlier. At these hearings Paul Crouch, for seventeen years a communist leader, former Communist District Organizer for North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, testified as follows: "Senator Eastland: ‘What is the Highlander Folk School?t "Mr, Crouch: 'The Highlander Folk School is a school operated at Monteagle, Tennessee ostensibly as an independent labor school but actually working in close co-operation with the Communist Party.'" On March 19, 1954 Mr. Crouch testified that in 1940 as Communist s-oussevr, he met with Myles Horton, James Dombrowski and Ed McCrea, the Nashville Organizer of the Communist Party and "later my successor as Tennessee Organizer,” at Highlander Folk School. Mr. Crouch said in reference to this meeting that "The Communist Party was anxious to geo the maximum results from Highlander Folk School without endan- gering Mr, Horton or anyone." ureouch explained that ", , . if it were to become public knowledge ouasa* Ue Highlander Folk School was co-operating tap closely with the Commupist Party and carrying on too much open Communist propaganda it .ould endanger its funds and its support ..." (Pages 125-126) On Page 135 of the official recorded Hearings of the Senate sG¥oovlgaviog Mp, Arens, Counsel for the Committee, asked Mr. Crouch the following questions: "¥- Awens: ‘'What conferences did you have there /Righlander Folk School/7? What was the purpose of the conferences? What was accomplished in these ‘conferences at the Highlander Folk School?! "Mr, Crouch: 'tThe purpose of the conference was to work out a Pilar he which the Daily Worker (Official Communist Newspaper) would (more ) wo