Anna Louise Strong

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CCP Chairman Mao Zedong with Israel Epstein (first left), Anna Louise Strong (third left), Soviet spies and New Deal economists Frank Coe (second right), and Solomon Adler (first right).

Anna Louise Strong was a radical journalist who championed the Soviet and Chinese Communist revolutions. Strong wroter for The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The Nation, the Marxist-Leninist weekly Guardian (NY) and Asia. Strong denied accusations of being a Communist and of being involved in Soviet espionage. In 1944 Strong planned to travel to Moscow. A Venona messages show that she had a relationship with the KGB, and the San Francisco KGB arranged with her a password that would allow her to identify her Moscow KGB contact.

Strong is referenced in Venona messages 132 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 18 March 1944; 257 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 7 June 1944; and 270 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 22 June 1944. Strong's cover name is Lira.

Weather Underground terrorist group founder Bill Ayers, a fundraiser, close friend and confidant of Illinois State Senator Barack Hussein Obama, in his memoir Fugitive Days, states that Strong provided a printing press for another violent communist organization, the Black Panthers upon the WUO request. Strong at the time was living in Maoist China.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Quoted in Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection, Cliff Kincaid, America's Survival, Inc., pp. 11-12.
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