Light & Noir

"The threat of Nazism catalyzed the wealthiest Jews of Los Angeles to political action. Beginning in March 1934 and continuing through the end of World War II, the Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee convened every Friday to hear reports from informants on escalating Nazi activity in the city and to deliberate on their response.
"It took Lewis six long months to secure the funding. In doing so, he bridged a social chasm between the city's Jewish community and an unlikely political partner, the city's veterans, and transformed those former soldiers into 'Hollywood's spies.'"

The LA Weekly runs an excerpt of Laura B. Rosenzweig's Hollywood Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles.