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COPY: CLL, 7-17-52 MR. TOLSON April 16, 1951 L. B. NICHOLS WARNER BROTHERS PICTURE "I WAS A COMMUNIST SPY. FOR. THE FBI" SAC Hood called from Los Angeles. ae «: the Robert Orr Advertising Agency S96 which handles Louella Parsons! program, came in to see him today >. N with a script for the Louella Parsons show of April 22. In this show, Louella Parsons has on her program frank Love joy’ who impem NX sonated Matt Cvetic in the Warner Brothers picture "I Was a Communist: t Spy for the FBI," They also have a long distance recording —\ of a telephone conversation with Cvetic. G3 Cvetic talks about Hollywood protecting ee... S 7G rat Sterling Hayden and of Communist retaliation against witnesses who ww divulge Commmist programs and activities and then states "in the FBI, we know witnesses .... . who were disposed of."Cvetic then States one way of doing it is to insert a poison needle in the body of one of these individuals, they die a few hours later, and there is no evidence of foul play. 2 va Cvetic then talks about the fact he knows a Communist who is the head of a water works in one of the largest California cities, that this Communist could poison the city's population in a matter of hours. This Communist is presently being protected but that "we" will get him in due time, wis Hood to see GED anc first of all point out to to that while we have not made any public comment on Matthew — Cvetic we want — information 4 ORIGINAL FILED TN M66 -. } to know for his own personal and confidenti secondly, Cvetic has no right to presume to speak for-the FBI as_— - is connoted by his use of the wor "we", that Hood feels GHD shoud know that it might be necessary for us to publicly deny Cvetic's alleged insinuations; thirdly, Hood would like for to im-~ oe mediately identify the case wherein a witness was disposed of with — 7 the poison needle; and fourthly, to imme diately identify the Com- - “0 TEST munist who is the head of a water works. Hood stated [es very much upset when be fépntactes hin, h7G _ that he has a very definite feeling that O6ing a radic j - X _~ rs =! revision of the SCHR roayanton toma SS \ O73 S RE OTe NOT RRCOR OED CC - Mr. Ladd i Sees ey 2) Mr. Jones %\a\60— ABIAAL LI COER WL 21 1952 LBN:FML © @@f" ‘DIRECTOR'S NOTATION: "BY ALL MEANS,-HATE-THISDOWN. Ht." (68 UL 28