Word: lautner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open party. Of the people who seem to have left the party in recent years, it is estimated that one-third have actually gone underground; present underground membership is estimated to be at least 10,000. The party began special preparations to submerge in 1948. One John Lautner, a former Communist who was expelled in 1950, has testified that he was ordered to draw up an elaborate system for underground operations should the party be outlawed. Lautner drew up a familiar but effective scheme in which underground members were organized in cells of three, with contacts so arranged that each...