Mr. DENNETT. That is true. Mr. TAVENNER. I do not want you to go into great detail, but I believe the record should be a little clearer on the character of work in which your wife was actually engaged, which you say was authorized by the head of the Communist Party. Mr. DENNETT. A stranger approached her and asked her if she would submit reports to him about any bottlenecks that she found in war production. He advised her that he had been informed that she was a very well-informed person, knew a lot of people, and would be capable of doing this work. She didn’t know what to make of it. So she wrote to me while I was in the service asking my opinion, and I told her to hold off until I got back on furlough. At that time I suggested to her that she take it up with the district leadership of the party, which she did, and got this approval. The nature of that work she found---- Mr. TAVENNER. That had nothing to do with reporting to any agency of Communist Party activities as such? Mr. DENNETT. No; it did not. Mr. TAVENNER. But it was just a matter of reporting things which interfered with the war effort in industry? Mr. DENNETT. That is true. Among the things that she found, some of the outstanding things, was one occasion pertaining to the Tacoma shipyards. She learned by various sources--friends that she knew in the labor movement--that the shipyard had been in operation for a period of around 10 months or more and still didn’t have a ship on the ways. She made a number of inquiries as to how they could account for such a thing, and at one point she ran across a name that rang a bell with her. She started to do a little probing, and found out that this name was the same as that of a person who had been removed from the navy yard some time before, either 2 or 3 years before, maybe. It might have been longer than that. But the person had been removed as a Fascist. He was known to be a member of a Silver Shirt organization. Lo and behold, this person turns up as the production supervisor or superintendent in this particular shipyard. Anyway, she submitted a report of all the information she had gathered on the subject. Within a couple of weeks’ time this person was removed from his position, and within a short time afterward ships were on the ways in that shipyard and production started booming. We could only draw a conclusion that her information had, certainly, some value. Mr. TAVENNER. We will be very much interested to hear of other occasions, but, because of the shortness of time, we will have to move on. The point is, that before undertaking that type of work your wife conferred with the leadership of the Communist Party and obtained approval. Mr. DENNETT. That is true. Mr. TAVENNER. Then take it up from there and tell us what occurred. Mr. DENNETT. That was part of the story on which this allegation of FBI agent thing arose.