McCormack-Dickstein Committee
Congressional hearing
| McCormack-Dickstein Committee link () Alchetron | |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1934 |
| Extinction | 1937 |
| Membership | John W. McCormack, Samuel Dickstein |
| Investigated The Business Plot 1934 coup plot, but was criticized by John Spivak, Smedley Butler and others, for not revealing – let alone questioning – the influential men behind the plot. | |
This House committee was named after its chairman and vice chairman, John W. McCormack and Samuel Dickstein. It was called the Special Committee on Un-American Activities Authorized to Investigate Nazi Propaganda and Certain Other Propaganda Activities. In 1934, it held public and private hearings in six cities, questioned hundreds of witnesses and collected testimony filling 4,300 pages. Its mandate was to get "information on how foreign subversive propaganda entered the U.S. and the organizations that were spreading it."
The Committee did investigate the plot to seize the White House, but was criticized by John Spivak, Smedley Butler and others, for not revealing – let alone questioning – the influential men behind the plot.[1]
