[Burkeman1]

Interesting- But I still doubt the attempt to kill John wayne in 43'. And wasn't Hollywood making such disgusting Pro Stalin films like "Mission to Moscow" and "North Star" that basically glorified Stalin and justified his murderous purges of millions at this time?

[DPB101]

Yes--at the behest of Soviet agents in the FDR administration.

If there were a hit put out, I would expect Disney to have been the target and the hit to have come from American communists. They did everything they could to destroy him.

Stalin and the CPUSA often hired the mob to carry out its hits. They also used the mob for other work. The first smear of McCarthy (who also had a contract out on his life) being a homosexual came from the publisher of the Las Vegas Sun.