Richard Collins (screenwriter): Difference between revisions

Collins admitted to formerly being a member of the [[Communist Party]], the [[Hollywood Anti-Nazi League]], [[Writers' Mobilization]], the [[Joint Anti-Fascist Committee]], and the [[Progressive Citizens of America]]. He ultimately named 26 of his colleagues some of whom were close friends. Despite his past, Collins claimed that he stopped paying his Communist dues in 1939. Collins became infamous for naming people he knew to be in the Communist Party, even former friends. Despite being heavily involved in the Communist movement in the 1930s, when he attended four to five meetings a week, he professed that he no longer followed their doctrine and never saw anything he did as an effort to undermine the security of the [[United States]].{{citation needed}}