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Liberal journalists have recieved a pass. The assumption is, yes they may have favored the Soviet Union, they may support marxists today, but they are idealists. I don't know why that should be seem as their motive. Considering the intensity of Soviet infilitration of America, it is just as likely they were on the payroll of or being blackmailed by the Soviets. We know Duranty and John Reed were. I.F. Stone, Eric Alterman's mentor, is now reported to have been a KGB asset (liberals deny this).

Check out this Soviet 1946 memo to Mikhail Andreevich Suslov. Ben Goldberg, an associate of Einstein, a writer for the Toronto Star, the Saint Louis Dispatch, the New York Post Today, and the New Republic was on an extended visit to the USSR. The memo says his dispatches were "extremely friendly toward the Soviet Union." While in Moscow, Goldberg was working on a book titled "England, the Opponent of Peace." Susov was a powerful figure in the USSR. He , Stalin and Kaganovich worked together during the purges. He was a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and buried next to Stalin in the Kremlin wall. That Goldberg came to Susvov's attention shows the interest Soviets took in American journalists. If Goldberg wasn't on the Soviet payroll, he could have been had he asked.

New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews is another case. This 1960 Senate hearing transcript shows , I believe, he was working with people in the State Department to see that Castro became the leader of Cuba.

How many more worked for the Soviets? How many worked for Mao, the Sandinistas and Saddam?

Anyone running agents against America would want operatives in the highest media positions. Yet all the ones we know of worked before Viet Nam. And it has been the Viet Nam crop of journalists which have been the most marxism class in American history. Was it simply disillusionment with Viet Nam? Or were they recruited or blackmailed during Nam?

Interesting..thanks.They are still working here..they grew up to be professors and jounalists.

that's rich! -- pro-castro in the state department.

when i was in college in the 70's and later returned for graduate degrees in the 80's, prominent on campus was cispes, a castro commie group. i forget what the initials stand for.

but, cispes had even infiltrated the u.s. congress by means of congressman dellums and the rest of their ilk.