Mr. O’Connell. I am pretty sure the reports were sent to me in Montana in 1949, and I signed them.
Mr. Tavenner. Are you acquainted with a person named Tom Buchanan?
Mr. O’Connell. I think he did the presswork for the committee in 1950.
Mr. Tavenner. Did you employ him?
Mr. O’Connell. No. When I came down here in 1950 he had already been employed by Mr. Waybur or Mr. Silberstein; I don’t know which. I think, wasn’t he a reporter, had been a reporter for the Washington Star?
Mr. Tavenner. Yes; he was until he was removed from that position. Did you know Tom Buchanan to be a member of the Communist Party?
Mr. O’Connell. No; I did not.
Mr. Tavenner. Mr. Chairman, I think the record should also show that Tom Buchanan was identified in the testimony of Mrs. Mary Stalcup Markward as an ex-Washington newspaperman assigned to the Youth Club of the Communist Party when he became a member of the Communist Party in Washington, D. C.
Later he was transferred to the Newspaper Club of the Communist Party in Washington and since that time has been an employee of the Civil Rights Congress in Washington.
Mr. O’Connell. Does it state when he became a member of the Communist Party?