Communist Ties
Peter Schweizer says that archives released by the Russian government after the fall of the USSR show that Sorrell was a Soviet spy. Peter Schweizer adds that the strikes led by Sorrell were secretly funded by the Communist Party; however, the Communist Party did not advocate strikes after the dissolution of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in June 1941.
In 1941 and in 1946 Sorrell testified before the California Legislature's Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities (the Tenney Committee), but there was insufficient evidence that he was tied to the Communist Party. The CSU strike of 1945 which Sorrell led was actively opposed by the American Communist Party. In 1947, Walt Disney testified before the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities that he "believed at that time that Mr. Sorrell was a Communist because of all the things that I had heard and having seen his name appearing on a number of Commie front things". In 1953, in an actor's lawsuit Sorrell testified that while he was never a communist, he did feel free to spend their money.
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