Representative Ford. The use of the word Trotskyite didn't add anything to the previous Marxist identification?
Mr. Hosty. Well, of course, that is a particular type of Marxism, Trotskyite, the followers of Leon Trotsky's particular deviation, but this did show that he was not a member of the Communist Party USA, follower of the Leninist-Stalinist-Khrushchev movement, but would be an independent Marxist would be what it would show me, not tied in with the regular Communist Party USA.
Representative Ford. Is there anything particularly identifiable with the Trotskyite element that might alert you to anything?
Mr. Hosty. Well, yes. The Socialist Workers Party is the Trotskyite Party in the United States, and they are supposedly the key element in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, or were the key element in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. So this would tie in with the fact that he was a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and, therefore, he claimed to be a Trotskyite—this would follow.
Mr. McCloy. Do you associate with Trotskyite Communists any greater disposition to acts of violence than the normal Communist?
Mr. Hosty. No, sir; no more than the others.
Mr. McCloy. No doctrine of policy by assassination?
Mr. Hosty. No, sir.
Mr. Stern. Have you reviewed, Mr. Hosty, the document that has been marked No. 830 for identification preliminary to your testimony today?
Mr. Hosty. Oh, yes; this one you gave me earlier; yes, sir.