Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Report for the Year 1964: 88th Congress, 2d Session
Rule XI, 18, of the House of Representatives (see preceding page), which spells out the powers and duties of the Committee on Un American Activities, requires that the committee' 'shall report to the House the results of any such investigation [as it makes under the powers granted it in Rule XI together with such recommendations as it deems advisable.
This Annual Report of the Committee on un-american Activities for the year 1964 is published in compliance with the above rule. It includes a summary of all hearings held by the committee during the past year, the reports published by the committee, developments in contempt proceedings arising from committee hearings, the non investigative work of the committee (such as the product of its files and reference service); and the legislative recommendations it deems advisable to make to the House as a result of its investigations, research, and study.
In View of the important developments on the national and inter national scenes which have taken place in the area of Communist activities in the recent past, some words of explanation may be in order as to why, in this foreword, attention is being focused on a report of a committee of the Congress and the rule of the House authorizing the publication of the report. It is being done because the rule in question and this report have a very real, though indirect, bearing on developments in all parts of the world - for the following reasons: First, global security today rests in large part on US security. Because the United States 18 the major source of strength for the non Communist world In its efforts to resist communism, it is important to know What this country's internal security agencies are doing and what their findings and recommendations are. This report summa rizes the activities of one of them which exercises basic functions in the legislative branch.
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