I.F. Stone, Soviet Agent—Case Closed

Commentary Magazine ^ | April 21, 2009 | Harvey Klehr, John E. Haynes and Alexander Vassiliev

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When new information about Americans who had cooperated with the Soviet KGB began to emerge in the 1990s, no individual case generated as much controversy as that of the journalist I.F. Stone, who had long been installed in the pantheon of left-wing heroes as a symbol of rectitude and a teller of truth to power before his death in 1989.

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[1010RD]

This puts it at what...Leftwing lie #??? We’ve run out of numbers!

[gusopol3]

I still remember the extremely dull tool, Peter Jennings, eulogizing Stone to an evening news audience, no doubt 95 % of whom had never heard of him.

[GeronL]

I am sure DU will be all over this =o)

[cornelis]

Explains why he went after Socrates!

[Poe White Trash]

How un-surprising!

By the way, can anyone point me to a book or books that address Soviet financing and support of the 60s anti-war and counter-culture movements in the US?

[madinmadtown]

Is this Stone any relation to Oliver? And is the Dodd mentioned in the article related to the bozo in the Senate? He was a German ambassador; obviously that Dodd had good political ties. Did he lead the way for the present Dodd?
I also found it interesting that the article mentioned Eric Alerman and Stone's role as his mentor.

[MediaMole]

They’re all guilty.

A good friend of the family worked as a consultant on the Alger Hiss case. His verdict — “Guilty as hell.”

[skeeter]

Tomorrow's NYT headline.

Right?

[RobbyS]

the extremely dull tool, Peter Jennings Dull but useful in the hands of the right people.

[denydenydeny]

Very damning but I was concerned by the article’s use of the term “KGB” for the period 1936-1945 when strictly speaking there was no such organization at the time. Critics will seize on this as an “error.”

[RobbyS]

The irony is that Joe McCarthy probably did more to whitewash the Communists than anyone. He was so clumsy that the woman whose interrogation led directly to his downfall was a communist agent but got away with it.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Look for a documentary called "No Place to Hide: The Strategy and Tactics of Terrorism". The now infamous Larry Grathwohl clip talking about the Weather Underground's plans for concentration camps and genocide came from this video. You should be able to find it on the web fairly easily.

Also, visit discoverthenetworks.com and just start browsing. Tons of information about the subversives and their communist funded roots.

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Obviously, it was NKVD. That organization simply morphed into the KBG.

Problem? Nyet!

CA....

[Chances Are]

This puts it at what...Leftwing lie #??? We’ve run out of numbers!

Googool Plex!

CA....

[Chances Are]

By the way, can anyone point me to a book or books that address Soviet financing and support of the 60s anti-war and counter-culture movements in the US?

I'm sure there were books of that nature around at the time, but I never read them.

There was, however, a newsletter I used to subscribe to, Pink Sheet On The New Left, that delved rather extensively into this subject.

Of course, the newsletter is no longer extant, and I threw my copies out ages ago.

Perhaps someone out there can come up with something on this...??

CA....

[dead]

Dig him up and hang him.

[drpix]

From this article:

"In 1940 he moved to PM, the left-wing New York daily. There, he reverted to his earlier attitudes and became a stalwart of the paper’s pro-Communist faction. His uncritical support of Soviet and Communist policies continued until the Stalin era came to an end with the dictator’s death in 1953. A year earlier, Stone wrote The Hidden History of the Korean War, in which he promoted the falsehood that South Korea had sparked the war by invading the Communist North.

This faction was in fact pro-Stalin and included the mother of the man behind Obama, fellow red-diaper baby, David Axelrod.

[earlJam]

no individual case generated as much controversy as that of the journalist I.F. Stone

Except for Alger Hiss, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg, and others.