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executive and action groups they never let in anybody but the bona fides. His testimony would indicate that he had been to some of these action groups meetings. So they must have thought him, or believed him, to be a member, and he may even have been a member.

We didn't yet too much about him from Bonham, except that Bonham did say that this same man had been a witness in other Communist cases. It was always very difficult to explain to myself why he was so anxious not to testify and make himself known on this case if he had actually testified in other cases before courts. But he said he had. This is leaping ahead a good deal, but we did check back. We didn't check back right away because we didn't have the opportunity to. But within the year in checking back on this man Milner and bringing him in for cross-examination and for further evidence, and so forth, we discovered, among other things, that he had been a witness in an earlier case and that he had in that case given perjured testimony, which had been thrown out by the court, and he had been haled in for perjury, having been let off with an extremely light sentence - a fine or something of that sort. But the evidence he gave had been definitely found to be not true and that he must have known it was not true. This perjured testimony was against someone





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