Ronald Reagan’s Work as An FBI Informer was Hidden for Years
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In the late 1940s, actor and future U.S. President Ronald Reagan hit a bit of a dry spell in his career. He appeared in films including The Voice of the Turtle and That Hagen Girl but was also head of the Screen Actors Guild, offering him the ability to shake out Hollywood Communists during the “Red Scare.” FBI papers revealed in 1985 that Reagan was an informant for the agency and used the code name T-10. He and his then-wife, actress Jane Wyman, gave agents information on actors whom they thought were Communist sympathizers. Despite his role in the Red Scare, Reagan didn’t always agree with tactics used by the House Un-American Activities Committee to flush out suspected Communists.