Mr. Stenhouse. Not to my knowledge.
Mr. Tavenner. When was it you were interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation at which time you refused to advise them as to your previous Communist Party membership?
Mr. Stenhouse. Well, I think you gave me the date of that the other day. I had forgotten it.
Mr. Tavenner. Don’t you remember it?
Mr. Stenhouse. No; I don’t. But you said it was in 1946, and I think it probably was.
Mr. Tavenner. So before you were selected for the position in the United Nations and, particularly for this project in China, you had refused to give information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to whether or not you had been a member of the Communist Party?
Mr. Stenhouse. Well, that is true, some nearly 2 years before. By the time I had applied for the position in the United Nations I didn’t consider myself to be whatever it was I had been before.
Mr. Tavenner. And no governmental agency, after the FBI came to see you, ever made any inquiry until the present time?
Mr. Stenhouse. Well, that is not so.
Last September I was called by a Treasury representative, and he told me he wanted to ask me some questions. So I met him at my home and he started to ask me about the sort of work I did and whether I ever did much traveling. And in the course of that discussion I told him that I had been in Washington, D. C. I told him quite frankly what I had been doing.