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was best for somebody else to go out to the West Coast, clear this all up and get a better record than the one we had from Bonham.

I don't remember who went to the West Coast. My memory is that it was Gerard Reilly, the Solicitor of the Department of Labor, and one of the immigration men, probably not Shaughnessy because he couldn't be let go from Washington as he was too important in the day-by-day operations, but one of the other men of equal rank who might have been W. Frank Watkins.

They went out to that office. They went over the whole file and what there was there. They questioned the immigration officers who had heard this very brief and really quite limited evidence of Milner. They looked up Milner. They got some kind of police report and other reports about Milner, and found that Milner did not have the best of reputations, and that the police, the American Legion, and others, were very doubtful as to his character. They looked him up through those circles. That was all explained later by Milner on the grounds that in order to be an agent provocateur, and in order to be an underground operator and know what was going on in the Communist party, had to associate with Communists on terms which would make these formal friends of his be doubtful of him.