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Exhibit 875

Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate Foundations and Other Organizations, H. Rept. 2514, 82d Cong., 2d sess.

Exhibit 875 ยท Congressional report

Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate Foundations and Other Organizations, H. Rept. 2514, 82d Cong., 2d sess.

Our investigation, hurried by lack of time, indicates that very few actual Communists or Communist sympathizers obtained positions of influence in the foundations.

Report of the committee created by H. Res. 561 (4 April 1952), chaired by E. E. Cox of Georgia until his death on 24 December 1952, completed under Acting Chairman Brooks Hays. Signed by all six members, including B. Carroll Reece, who appended a note asking that the inquiry be continued by the next Congress. Finds little basis for the belief that foundation funds are diverted, finds very few Communists in positions of influence, finds some foundation grants to Communists and sympathizers, and recommends a Public Accountability Act requiring public reporting by exempt organizations.

Source
U.S. House of Representatives, Select Committee to Investigate Foundations
Date
1 January 1953
Quoted from
Findings and Conclusions, p. 7
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/SERIALSET-11578_00_00-225-2514-0000/pdf/SERIALSET-11578_00_00-225-2514-0000.pdf
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2026-11-09
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Finding POL-7.17
Primary record The House Select Committee to Investigate Foundations (Cox Committee) reported on 1 January 1953, with all six members signing, that very few actual Communists or Communist sympathizers had obtained positions of influence in foundations. The Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations (Reece Committee) reported in December 1954 on the votes of three Republicans, with both Democrats voting against it and writing that it "should never be published."