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Scott Detrow

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Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Yes. They've been available for years.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Uh-huh. All 1,900 pages. The very interesting thing is there was this disconnect between Hoover in Washington and the FBI office in Los Angeles. The FBI in Los Angeles were the men on the ground in terms of surveilling the motion picture industry. And the head of the FBI office in Los Angeles was a man named Richard Hood. Because Hoover seldom went to Los Angeles.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Uh-huh. All 1,900 pages. The very interesting thing is there was this disconnect between Hoover in Washington and the FBI office in Los Angeles. The FBI in Los Angeles were the men on the ground in terms of surveilling the motion picture industry. And the head of the FBI office in Los Angeles was a man named Richard Hood. Because Hoover seldom went to Los Angeles.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Uh-huh. All 1,900 pages. The very interesting thing is there was this disconnect between Hoover in Washington and the FBI office in Los Angeles. The FBI in Los Angeles were the men on the ground in terms of surveilling the motion picture industry. And the head of the FBI office in Los Angeles was a man named Richard Hood. Because Hoover seldom went to Los Angeles.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

And every once in a while, Hoover would yank Richard Hood's chain and say, I want you to do this and this and this regarding Charlie Chaplin and see about this and that. And at first, Hood goes about his business and does what his boss tells him to do. But as the 40s wear on, Hood begins to... Drag his feet.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

And every once in a while, Hoover would yank Richard Hood's chain and say, I want you to do this and this and this regarding Charlie Chaplin and see about this and that. And at first, Hood goes about his business and does what his boss tells him to do. But as the 40s wear on, Hood begins to... Drag his feet.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

And every once in a while, Hoover would yank Richard Hood's chain and say, I want you to do this and this and this regarding Charlie Chaplin and see about this and that. And at first, Hood goes about his business and does what his boss tells him to do. But as the 40s wear on, Hood begins to... Drag his feet.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Because by 1946, 1947, the FBI had informers in the American Communist Party and they had the membership roster. And they knew who everybody in the American Communist Party was. That's why in 1947, when they called the Hollywood Ten to Washington to be cross-examined,

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Because by 1946, 1947, the FBI had informers in the American Communist Party and they had the membership roster. And they knew who everybody in the American Communist Party was. That's why in 1947, when they called the Hollywood Ten to Washington to be cross-examined,

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Because by 1946, 1947, the FBI had informers in the American Communist Party and they had the membership roster. And they knew who everybody in the American Communist Party was. That's why in 1947, when they called the Hollywood Ten to Washington to be cross-examined,

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Everybody in the Hollywood 10 either had been a member of the Communist Party and quit or was currently a member of the Communist Party. That's because they had the membership roster. So they knew that Chaplin was not a member of the party, had never been a member of the party, and never had given a dime to the party.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Everybody in the Hollywood 10 either had been a member of the Communist Party and quit or was currently a member of the Communist Party. That's because they had the membership roster. So they knew that Chaplin was not a member of the party, had never been a member of the party, and never had given a dime to the party.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Everybody in the Hollywood 10 either had been a member of the Communist Party and quit or was currently a member of the Communist Party. That's because they had the membership roster. So they knew that Chaplin was not a member of the party, had never been a member of the party, and never had given a dime to the party.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

And if they had thought about it for more than 20 minutes, they would have realized that anybody with Chaplin's autocratic leanings as an artist, a man who was almost impossible for him to delegate anything, would never be privy or a member of a party with a top-down autocratic drift because he could not possibly have done what anybody else wanted him to do because Chaplin had never done what anybody else had wanted him to do.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

And if they had thought about it for more than 20 minutes, they would have realized that anybody with Chaplin's autocratic leanings as an artist, a man who was almost impossible for him to delegate anything, would never be privy or a member of a party with a top-down autocratic drift because he could not possibly have done what anybody else wanted him to do because Chaplin had never done what anybody else had wanted him to do.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

And if they had thought about it for more than 20 minutes, they would have realized that anybody with Chaplin's autocratic leanings as an artist, a man who was almost impossible for him to delegate anything, would never be privy or a member of a party with a top-down autocratic drift because he could not possibly have done what anybody else wanted him to do because Chaplin had never done what anybody else had wanted him to do.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

He belonged to the Catalina Yacht Club. Oh, is there ideology? There you go. He belonged to the Lambs Club in New York, acting a bunch of actors. He never joined the Director's Guild. He never joined the Screen Actors Guild. No, he was absolutely not a joiner. Stuff like that had zero interest for him, and it meant nothing to him.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

He belonged to the Catalina Yacht Club. Oh, is there ideology? There you go. He belonged to the Lambs Club in New York, acting a bunch of actors. He never joined the Director's Guild. He never joined the Screen Actors Guild. No, he was absolutely not a joiner. Stuff like that had zero interest for him, and it meant nothing to him.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

He belonged to the Catalina Yacht Club. Oh, is there ideology? There you go. He belonged to the Lambs Club in New York, acting a bunch of actors. He never joined the Director's Guild. He never joined the Screen Actors Guild. No, he was absolutely not a joiner. Stuff like that had zero interest for him, and it meant nothing to him.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

That he was a termite eating away at the foundation of America. And sooner or later, the House is going to collapse. Essentially the same charge that the investigators at the House Committee on Un-American Activities were making against all the people they were investigating.