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Dies said, so I am told now, on September 9, 1938 that I was flirting with impeachment if I didn't deport Bridges. I couldn't say whether that date was before or after we got this bit of real evidence from Seattle. It might have been before because they began to talk about Bridges as a Bolshevik, an alien, and so on, before they had any evidence at all. Dies may just have been repeating what he had heard as a rumor and demanding that the Secretary of Labor deport Bridges, or he may have known or heard about this bit of evidence.

I came to have a good deal of doubt about the man who was our immigration agent out in Seattle, about his loyalty, intelligence and good sense. I wouldn't have put it above him to have pipelined it in some way so that it reached Dies' ears. There are a lot of people who just love to do that sort of thing. So Dies may have heard that there was some evidence. The newspapers knew that there was evidence almost as soon as it came in.

This evidence was an affidavit. The name of the man was “Major” or “Colonel” Milner. His affidavit was to the effect that he had acted as chauffeur and had driven a number of men, including Bridges whom he knew well, at least he knew him well enough to know that he couldn't possibly have mistaken him, to a secret meeting of a group of the Communist party some place in the State