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The reason that you did not hear about any hearing on Hayden/Fonda was that it was an in-house secret. It involved the late David Martin of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, and myself, as possibly the first witness I attended an Oct. 1973 meeting with Hayden/Fonda who had just come back from Paris and the VC/PRG/NVN. The communists gave Hayden his marching orders and he told the Germantown, Ohio "Hanoi Lobby" meeting what the reds wanted him to do in the US, esp. thru his lobbying out of Ron Dellums's arranged House office building room.

There is more to this than I can talk about right now because a crucial piece of evidence is possibly missing from government files. It might be found if the right person is put on locating it.

The late far-right writer Frank Capell wrote one of his newsletters about Cranston and the communists. Its facts were right but anything that Capell wrote had to be used with extreme care because he was very reckless with facts mixed in with suppositions and undocumented opinions.

If the Elmer Davis of the OWI is the same one I think it is, then he has a red-front/affiliations records that stretched for decades. I'm sure that he was listed in Appendix IX which went back as far as the 1920/30s.

Thank you for the very interesting information on Hayden/Fonda. I look forward to seeing the fuller treatment of that. If there is anything that might be done to help locate the missing information, please let me know. I don't believe I've read what Capell said on Cranston, but I'll keep your comments on that in mind. Regarding Elmer Davis, I see there are two references to him in a 1956 index of Congressional Investigations of Communism and Subversive Activities covering 1918 to 1956. One is from a June 1945 HUAC hearing regarding the investigation of the Office of Price Administration, and reproduces a November 1944 letter from Davis to Chester Bowles as an exhibit. The other is from a 1951-1952 Select Committee investigation (headed by Rep. Ray Madden) of the Katyn Forest Massacre; Davis and Cranston are both listed as witnesses who gave testimony. Haynes and Klehr's Venona 197 has some commentary on Davis' testimony on Katyn Forest, regarding questions put to him about his hiring and firing of Communists to OWI staff and whether this had any influence on propaganda about the massacre. I believe I have also seen discussions touching on Davis in commentary on the FBI's file on Macleish, but I would need to track down the specifics from my notes.