Un-American Activities Committee (1948)

Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. American newsreel titles read: ’ACCUSED OFFICIALS TESTIFY BEFORE HOUSE SPY PROBE’ United States of America. M/S of former aide to Roosevelt Lauchlin Currie being sworn in before Un-American Activities Committee. C/U of Lauchlin Currie. M/S of Currie speaking (natural sound). He says “I welcome this opportunity to state again under oath, as I did before the Federal Grand Jury convened in the eastern district of New York to investigate the charges similar to those before this Committee, that I am not, and never have been, a Communist“. M/S of reporters taking down statements. Several shots of Harry D White, former assistant Treasury Secretary, before the committee. He says he should like to state at the start that he is not now and never has been a Communist, nor even close to becoming one. He says that he cannot recollect ever knowing either a Miss Bentley (confessed spy Elizabeth Bentley) or Mr Whitaker Chambers. M/S