page_title: National Committee to Defeat the Mundt Bill
section_title: HUAC report
hierarchical_section_title: National Committee to Defeat the Mundt Bill / HUAC report
caption_attribution_description: English: Congressman Richard Nixon campaigns for the Senate, 1950
context_page_description: The National Committee to Defeat the Mundt Bill AKA "NCDMB" was an American organization that sought to oppose passage of the Mundt-Nixon Bill and subject of a 15-page report of the House Un-American Activities Committee, two of whose members were US Representatives Karl E. Mundt and Richard M. Nixon.
context_section_description: On December 7, 1950, HUAC issued a 15-page Report on National Committee to Defeat the Mundt Bill:  A Communist Lobby.  At that time, HUAC's senior investigator was Louis J. Russell and director of research Benjamin Mandel.  HUAC had successfully subpoenaed months of Western Union telegrams and telephone records between the committee and the National Lawyers Guild and tied both organizations to the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and numerous Communist front organizations.  HUAC also cited testimony from FBI undercover agent Matthew Cvetic.
  
  The report concluded:  
  The Committee on Un-American Activities is unanimous in its belief that the National Committee to Defeat the Mundt Bill was organized not as a legitimate lobbying enterprise, but rather as a propaganda adjunct of the Communist Party. The work of this organization, in many instances, was performed by the Communist Party, and it was at all times wholly supported by the Communist Party.
    (Note:  The report states its "belief.")
caption: U.S. Representative Richard M. Nixon (1950) supported the Mundt Bill while serving on HUAC
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