<P> On May 26 , 1938 , the House Committee on Un-American Activities was established as a special investigating committee , reorganized from its previous incarnations as the Fish Committee and the McCormack - Dickstein Committee , to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens , public employees , and those organizations suspected of having communist or fascist ties ; however , it concentrated its efforts on communists . It was chaired by Martin Dies Jr . ( D - Tex . ) , and therefore known as the Dies Committee . </P>
<P> On May 26 , 1938 , the House Committee on Un-American Activities was established as a special investigating committee , reorganized from its previous incarnations as the Fish Committee and the McCormack - Dickstein Committee , to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens , public employees , and those organizations suspected of having communist or fascist ties ; however , it concentrated its efforts on communists . It was chaired by Martin Dies Jr . ( D - Tex . ) , and therefore known as the Dies Committee . </P>
who led the house un american activities committee
who led the house un american activities committee
Martin Dies Jr . ( D - Tex . )
Martin Dies Jr . ( D - Tex . )