Sullivan House Probe Agent Exposed As Anti-semite, is Dropped

Edward Francis Sullivan, who was denounced by Labor’s Non-Partisan League as engaging in vicious anti-Semitic propaganda and subversive anti-Jewish activities, was dropped on Sep. I as chief investigator of the special house committee investigating un-American activities, it was disclosed today by Chairman Martin Dies.

Mr. Dies said that Mr. Sullivan and two other investigators had been notified long before charges were filed against Mr. Sullivan that their services would be terminated Sep. I because of a shortage of funds.

The Non-Partisan League on Aug. 25 submitted to the committee a memorandum containing nine charges against Mr. Sullivan, including a conviction for stealing Jewelry and a variety of activities against labor groups, the National Labor Relations Board, the Jews and Catholics.

Charging that Mr. Sullivan was “engaged in a particularly vicious manner not only in anti-Semitic propaganda, but in anti-Jewish activities which were in the last degree subversive of every principle of religious tolerance,” the memorandum asserted that he was better suited to be a subject of the committee’s inquiry than its senior investigator.

Among the specific activities attributed to Mr. Sullivan by the memorandum were the following:

Attempting to bribe a member of the National Maritime Union to withdraw and make statements that the N.M.U. was a Jewish-controlled Communist organization;

Declaring at a hearing in a labor dispute that there were “too many Jews working for the Labor Board;”

Associating with James True, anti-Semitic propagandist, and addressing an anti-Jewish conference in Asheville, N.C., in 1936, making several violently anti-Semitic statements;

Submitting a report to the Dies Committee which attempted to create the impression that Jewish organizations were trying to build a smoke screen for Communism by hypocritical agitation against the German-American Bund and the Silver Shirts.