Reagan Named Names During Red Scare

I wonder if Bonzo ever had to go before the HUAC:

Ronald Reagan's acting career hit a lull in the late 1940s. Despite parts in minor films such as The Voice of the Turtle and That Hagen Girl, he became increasingly preoccupied with his more important role during Hollywood's "Red Scare" as head of the Screen Actors Guild. It was revealed last week that the future President played another role as well: as a secret FBI informant, code name T-10. According to an article published in the San Jose Mercury News, documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act indicate that Reagan and his first wife, Actress Jane Wyman, provided federal agents with the names of actors they believed were Communist sympathizers.

Now I realize that this was a different time for America and I'm not attempting to vilify Reagan's entire political career with this information but it's certainly nothing to be proud of. Don't expect this dose of reality to change the views of any Reagan-fetishists out there either.

(Time via Boing Boing)