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I don't think that Bonham got the evidence that he had once addressed a group in instructing them how to break up a military wedge, but that that came out later. He had addressed a group of members of a radical organization during a strike way back in 1936 - I guess it was the longshoremen's strike - in which he told them how they could break up a military wedge if the military attempted to break up one of their mobs.

He had done all these things, according to his statement, in order to worm his way in and to become an effective information person on the whole subject.

Landis in his report says of him:

Indeed so successful did he (Milner) seem to have portrayed to others that he was a Communist that his early associates shunned him. The American Legion repudiated him, and his former friend, William Brown, of the so-called “red squad” of the Portland Police Department threatened to beat him up.

This, according to Milner, just showed that he was being excessively careful to get himself wormed into the Communist party and all the radical organizations.

In any case, this Milner evidence was questionable in my mind. At least, one had to be very doubtful about it. This was what came in from Bonham - that he said that