I.F. Stone, Soviet Agent—Case Closed

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

[Poe White Trash]

Thanks!

[Poe White Trash]

Thank you!

[B Knotts]

Quite right. The project these guys worked on has outlived their empire, and is rebuilding the “socialist paradise” in the West. Eventually, maybe there will be Western commie moles spreading their beliefs in Russia!

[muawiyah]

Richard Nixon began his core political career by defeating an old moonbat named Helen Gahagan Douglas for Congress.

When you visit the Nixon Library you will find sitting in one of the myriad of displays one of her campaign brochures where she seriously suggests that Nixon is the Commie and she's the patriot.

It is to laugh!

[Bernard Marx]

You are correct. His name was in my notes because he, not McCarthy, was chairing a committee session in which actions were taken that have wrongly been attributed to McCarthy. I erroneously included Mundt's name in my post.

I'd only add that anyone seeking info on the Moss incident should read M. Stanton Evans's "Blacklisted by History," especially Chapter 40.

[Bernard Marx]

Although I thought I already knew a lot about Communist penetration of America, "Witness" had the same impact on me it had on you. It ought to be required reading in our history classrooms but of course it's probably banned from most of them these days: it tells an "inconvenient" truth. It's enormously powerful and important.

If you haven't read Stanton Evans's "Blacklisted by History" I strongly recommend it. Coulter's background on McCarthy was based on Evans' notes but his own book is mind-blowing. Destruction of incriminating official records didn't start with Sandy Burglar!

Ralph de Toledano provided many of his personal copies of research material for Evans that was missing from official archives. De Toledano was a friend of Chambers and his own 1950 book on the Chambers-Hiss affair,"Seeds of Treason," is well worth reading. You can probably find it used.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I.F. Stone was not related to Oliver Stone, though both were good at anti-American propaganda. Izzy was a Soviet agent, period. Stone is just stoned. I’ve met IF Stone and he was a “grandfatherly” red, charming, smiling, and full of communist propaganda. His son, Jeremy, was a longtime leader of the leftist Federation of American Scientists, one of the leading groups in the anti-defense lobby.

Alterman wrote for the maoist weekly, the “Guardian”, US radical weekly. He is still in leftist groups and writes for possibly the far-left, once CPUSA-led “The Nation.” (I.e. Carey McWilliams, a longtime identified CPUSA organizer).

Dodd: Was US ambassador to Germany and pro-German. His daughter Martha was mixed up in communist fronts.

Sen. Thomas Dodd was the father of the present Sen. Chris “I never met a red I didn’t like” Dodd. If I remember correctly, Tom Dodd was a Nuremberg prosecutor and was the top responsible anti-communist senator in Congress. Unfortunately he got involved with foreign lobbyists and was censured by Congress (for things that the Democrats do on a regular basis today).

Stone was the U.S. version of identified Soviet and Red Chinese agent Wilfred Burchett, the favorite journalist of “the Guardian”, the “Daily Worker/World” and the N.Y. Times.

He was an enemy of the US and only a fool would say otherwise

[VR-21]

I guess my question is...Does having been a KGB agent (and traitor) carry any stigma these days?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I was one of the editors/reporters for “The Pink Sheet on the Left/American Sentinel” from 1971-1988. We could find very little evidence of Soviet and Red Chinese open funding of the CPUSA and the PLP/Guardian/OL, other than what they admitted themselves. Cash is hard to see when laundered thru their networks. However, there is evidence in congressional hearings that CPUSA members and sympathizers did fund the Hanoi lobby to the tune of many tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Today’s leftist foundations raise that funding figure to the billions. Much of this is found in their 990 Annual Reports to the IRS.

However, I did a story in the PS/AS based on an admission by the Guardian that Red China subsidized them by buying phantom productions of their newspaper and giving them cuts from tours to Red China that the Guardian sponsored.

Also, I did prove that the CPUSA was involved in funding the Hanoi-supporting group COLIFAM (Committee in Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in Vietnam), led by Cora Rubin Weiss (daughter of a Soviet Comintern agent, Samuel Rubin, of Institute for Policy Studies fame).

Anniversary Tours, a CPUSA front, funded COLIFAM in their 1972 trip to Hanoi to pick up several US POWS and to bring them back for propaganda use.
Previously, in sworn congressional testimony, April 1971, I proved to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that the CPUSA was the printing house for COLIFAM envelopes and letterheads. Again, Cora Weiss was involved.

A newly declassified intelligence report, which I hope to turn into a column, will provide more in-depth information on communist-bloc operations in the US, including some funding.

An article the other day on Stanley Levinson provided a greater insight into how the Soviets/KGB funded the CPUSA thru this man, a secret party member and money launderer for them. He was also a top advisor to the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. See “David Garrow” and his just released article on newly declassified documents on Levison and his role as a Soviet operative.

Also, see John Barron’s book “Operation Solo” for more on how the Soviets funneled money to the CPUSA thru the Childs brothers and Levison.

One of the biggest questions is how much money did Castro and Hanoi funnel to their supporters in the US, or spend sending US radicals to various conferences, to cut sugar cane via the CPUSA-DGI-controlled Venceremos Brigade (one of whose leaders is now a head of one the Smithsonian Institution’s museums). This includes John Kerry’s VVAW.

There is a lot more on this that will come out in the future as additional classified documents are released by the FBI in response to FOIA requests. However, the CIA has not released anything of importance and they have a lot on this subject.

We have only begun to scratch the surface of how our communist enemies funded their supporters in America.

[ChessExpert]

“McCarthy was “Borked” long before the word was even invented!”

“The politics of personal destruction,” that is what was done to Senator Joseph McCarthy.

[ReformationFan]

What part of “To put it plainly, from 1936 to 1939 I.F. Stone was a Soviet spy.” do Mr. Stone’s defenders do not understand? KGB documents revealed post-Cold War confirmed that Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were committed Soviet agents as well.

Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.

[muawiyah]

A question ~ when the Commies were given a chance to create linkages to American criminal gangs did they elect Capone's group or Dillinger's group when it came to Chicago?

I believe those linkages still exist ~ and connect old line Commie operators in Russia and corrupt but modern Chicago politicians.

[madinmadtown]

Thank you.

[haroldeveryman]

The only thing I ever wanted know about I.F. Stone came form an article that I browsed in a book store in about 1960. At the time Venezuela was having free elections after getting rid of a military dictator. Venezuelan communists were shooting up poling places and killing people in order to disrupt these elections (maybe they felt unwanted). And here is this esteemed “fiercly independent” leftist writing about what “wonderful people” those “revolutionaries” were. The posted article is a lot kinder to I.F. Stone than the impression I was left with a long time ago.

[MplsSteve]

I think the best way to describe Joe McCarthy is...

Right message, wrong messenger.

[skinkinthegrass]

Obviously, it was NKVD. That organization simply morphed into the KBG.
Problem? Nyet!

thanks...I was looking, for that....

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[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Re connections between the Mafia in Chicago and the Communist networks.

Saul Alinsky admitted that he used the Mafia structure to organize his groups. He had connections with the Mafia on some issues.

In the past, I’m willing to bet that the CPUSA made some secret deals with the Mafia but Al Capone was long gone when the CP came into a powerplay position (probably in the late 40’s/early 50’s). The CP became a powerhouse in labor unions, esp. the MeatPackers and United Electrical Workers.

It seems that in Chicago, everyone knew who everyone was and made political deals accordingly. There was a significant Mafia presence in Chicago until the last 80’s, early 90’s (I worked on an organized crime task force which involved some of the Chicago Mob. Janet Reno skunked the investigations because LIUNA gave the Clintons and DNC millions of dollars in contributions over the years).

One link in Chicago was that of the CPUSA and the black political movement. Often they were indistinguishable; in other cases, it was a case of mutual interest. Obama’s mentor Frank Marshall Davis came out of the communist/left black movement in 1940’s Chicago, ended up as a CP-possible Soviet operative in Hawaii (where he was befriended or befriended Obie’s grandparents and mother) and had come from Kansas just as they had. Coincidence? Just wait on this one.

The CPUSA operated on several levels in Chicago, openly, thru the Chicago Peace Council, their front, the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights, etc, and often had an unofficial alliance with black publishers (esp. Alice Palmer) and possibly Vernon Jarrett, the Chicago Defender, etc.

They also operated out of WILPF, WSP, MCHR, etc. many of whom were led by friends of Obama.

One Soviet registered propaganda agent David Canter was allied with CPUSA workhorse LeRoy Wolins (Mobes, CPC, Vets for Peace, an old CP front, etc). Canter teamed up with another leftist Don Rose (whose red front/cause record, by his own admission, goes back to the 40’s).

Rose became David Axelrod’s “mentor” (there’s that word again), and apparently Obama knew Canter too.

Then there is the old SDS/Weathermen network that started with Bill Ayers/Bernadine Dohrn, Marilyn Katz, Mark Rudd, Jeff Jones, Carl Davidson (Maoist), etc. in Friends of Obama and Progressives for Obama.

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we attempt to deceive.”

see: www.newzeal.blogspot.com for much more on the Chicago Connections of Obama. Also see www.USASurvival.org for reports on this very subject.

The red crap runs deep in Obie’s Chicago and it is getting deeper every day.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Re connections between the Mafia in Chicago and the Communist networks.

Saul Alinsky admitted that he used the Mafia structure to organize his groups. He had connections with the Mafia on some issues.

In the past, I’m willing to bet that the CPUSA made some secret deals with the Mafia but Al Capone was long gone when the CP came into a powerplay position (probably in the late 40’s/early 50’s). The CP became a powerhouse in labor unions, esp. the MeatPackers and United Electrical Workers.

It seems that in Chicago, everyone knew who everyone was and made political deals accordingly. There was a significant Mafia presence in Chicago until the last 80’s, early 90’s (I worked on an organized crime task force which involved some of the Chicago Mob. Janet Reno skunked the investigations because LIUNA gave the Clintons and DNC millions of dollars in contributions over the years).

One link in Chicago was that of the CPUSA and the black political movement. Often they were indistinguishable; in other cases, it was a case of mutual interest. Obama’s mentor Frank Marshall Davis came out of the communist/left black movement in 1940’s Chicago, ended up as a CP-possible Soviet operative in Hawaii (where he was befriended or befriended Obie’s grandparents and mother) and had come from Kansas just as they had. Coincidence? Just wait on this one.

The CPUSA operated on several levels in Chicago, openly, thru the Chicago Peace Council, their front, the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights, etc, and often had an unofficial alliance with black publishers (esp. Alice Palmer) and possibly Vernon Jarrett, the Chicago Defender, etc.

They also operated out of WILPF, WSP, MCHR, etc. many of whom were led by friends of Obama.

One Soviet registered propaganda agent David Canter was allied with CPUSA workhorse LeRoy Wolins (Mobes, CPC, Vets for Peace, an old CP front, etc). Canter teamed up with another leftist Don Rose (whose red front/cause record, by his own admission, goes back to the 40’s).

Rose became David Axelrod’s “mentor” (there’s that word again), and apparently Obama knew Canter too.

Then there is the old SDS/Weathermen network that started with Bill Ayers/Bernadine Dohrn, Marilyn Katz, Mark Rudd, Jeff Jones, Carl Davidson (Maoist), etc. in Friends of Obama and Progressives for Obama.

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we attempt to deceive.”

see: www.newzeal.blogspot.com for much more on the Chicago Connections of Obama. Also see www.USASurvival.org for reports on this very subject.

The red crap runs deep in Obie’s Chicago and it is getting deeper every day.

[muawiyah]

Vernon Jarrett ~ the Jarrett family women show up all over the place ~ even in Dillinger's bed - in those days they claimed they were Indians.

Stepping back a second from the direct CPUSA-Comintern links, back in the 1920s Chicago's railyards AND manufacturers associated with the railroad industry definitely had their own homegrown Commie and Anarchist connections (as if there was any difference between the Commies and the bomb-throwers ~ which raises a question of just how close today's Democrats are with the various mad-bombers they bring into their "big tent" ~ e.g. Brent Kimberlin - from Indianapolis, and Bill Ayers - from Chicago).

I don't think these connections are just coincidental. The business of Democrats doing deals with mobsters of a decidedly vicious stripe, while also doing deals with mad-bombers has been too consistent over too long a period of time.

Is there any reason to think that any legitimate political entity has ever arisen in Chicago?

[Bernard Marx]

So how does that differ from “Borking?”