Alleged microfilm forgery and pumpkin concealment tied to House UnAmerican Activities Committee

hands. If not for the work of our House UnAmerican Activities Committee, the prosecution would never have been so successful. | refused to turn over to those bunglers the microfilms we had in evidence. When there was a possibility | might be cited for contempt, | raised the point of what a dangerous precedent could be set, since here | was, a U.S. Congressman, appearing voluntarily before a grand jury. But the truth of the matter was that those microfilms were copies of documents forged on an old Woodstock typewriter that had been specially constructed to resemble—to have the same_ peculiarities as—the typewriter that had actually belonged to Alger Hiss’ s wife, Priscilla. Then Whittaker Chambers hid these “old” 1938 microfilms inside a pumpkin on his pumpkin farm. The trouble was, the Eastman Kodak people stated that the type of film we used was not manufactured by their company until 1945. To this day, whenever the comic strip Peanuts mentions that bird named Woodstock or the mysterious “pumpkin papers,” | suspect Charles Schulz is trying to remind me of something. kok # There seems to be a tradition of accusing those who fight Communism of being homosexual. This smear tactic was used against HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015096