I don't think he was paid, at least that's what I read somewhere.
Think they offered it, but he could not collect it. One of the things that pissed him off, and started him on this trail I thought.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Dwight D. Eisenhower