Have you ever heard of the popular front? Look it up.
"as Utley's book suggests, it was precisely Picasso's unique position—that he was so popular in the West and rarely doctrinaire in his own work—that gave him such a powerful role in the cultural dimension of the Cold War. "Thorez realized this best," Utley says. "Let him alone, he serves us best when he is seen in Europe and America as happy among us, and paints as a man." ...
Still, get me from his popular works that for the most part seem to come from the time before joining the Communist Party, to them being a plot to bring down the US. Were the Communists so powerful as to plant seeds in his head at the turn of the century to try to bring down America?