 Geiger says he would never have moved so deeply in these worlds so quickly if not for his experiences with Canada Lee.By the late 1940s, the rising tide of anti-communism had made many of Lee’s earlier contacts politically dangerous.In 1949, the trade journal "Variety" stated that under no circumstance was Lee to be used in American Tobacco’s televised production of a radio play he had recently starred in because he was "too controversial".