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Milner's testimony. Bonham proceeded to do that. Milner answered questions before a committee of immigration officers consisting of Bonham himself and two others - I forget who the other two were, but they were local immigration officers. I'm not sure that that testimony was sworn, but I think it was. Anyhow, that testimony was the basis of the case. That testimony was pretty specific as to what Milner know. He claimed in that testimony that he had been on intimate terms with most of these Communists of the West Coast, that he pretended to be sympathetic, that he had bored into their groups by pretending this sympathy, that all he had ever done was always undercover, and that he posed as a Communist sympathizer. I remember that he said in this that he never had posed as a Communist member, but it did appear from the things he said he'd been in on that he must have been a Communist member or he wouldn't have been in on them.

Among other things that he said, as I recall now, was that he had gone to some of the top-grade meetings, which, he said, were restricted - or at least which the other information that we had said - to bona fide and trusted members. Sympathizers and probable converts were admitted to all kinds of meetings, but for the actual