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'''Frederick Vanderbilt Field''' (April 13, 1905 &ndash; February 1, 2000) was an American millionaire<ref>Craig Thomson, “America's Millionaire Communist,” ''The Saturday Evening Post'', September 9, 1950</ref> and great-great-grandson of railroad tycoon [[Cornelius Vanderbilt|Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt]]<ref>Anthony Summers, "[http://www.rd.com/content/marilyn-monroe Bombshell]", ''Reader's Digest'', October 2006</ref> who claimed to have been a member of the [[Communist Party]].<ref>Kai Bird and Svetlana Chervonnaya, “[http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-mystery-of-ales/ The Mystery of 'Ales'],” ''The American Scholar'', Summer 2007</ref>  

'''Frederick Vanderbilt Field''' (April 15, 1905 - February 1, 2000) was an American millionaire<ref>Craig Thomson, “America's Millionaire Communist,” ''The Saturday Evening Post'', September 9, 1950</ref> and great-great-grandson of railroad tycoon [[Cornelius Vanderbilt|Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt]]<ref>Anthony Summers, "[http://www.rd.com/content/marilyn-monroe Bombshell]", ''Reader's Digest'', October 2006</ref> who claimed to have been a member of the [[Communist Party]].<ref>Kai Bird and Svetlana Chervonnaya, “[http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-mystery-of-ales/ The Mystery of 'Ales'],” ''The American Scholar'', Summer 2007</ref>

 

He was born on April 15, 1905, and as a young man attended [[Harvard]].  While at Harvard, he was the editor of the Harvard Crimson.<ref name=timeangel>[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811650,00.html COMMUNISTS: Life of an Angel], ''[[Time magazine]]'' article, January 9, 1950.</ref>

==FBI Freedom of Information Act files==

==FBI Freedom of Information Act files==

Field also served as secretary of the bail fund of the [[Civil Rights Congress]] (CRC), another organization designated a Communist front by the attorney general.<ref>Enid Nemy, "[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D9163EF934A35751C0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/N/Nemy,%20Enid Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Wealthy Leftist, Dies at 94]," ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 7, 2000</ref> According to [[Georgetown University]] Professor [[Carroll Quigley]], Field was also an officer of what Quigley alleged was a "Communist-front organization, the Trade Union Services, Incorporated, of New York City." <ref>Carroll Quigley, ''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'' (New York: Macmillan Company, 1966) ISBN 0-945001-10-X, p. 944</ref>

Field also served as secretary of the bail fund of the [[Civil Rights Congress]] (CRC), another organization designated a Communist front by the attorney general.<ref>Enid Nemy, "[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D9163EF934A35751C0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/N/Nemy,%20Enid Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Wealthy Leftist, Dies at 94]," ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 7, 2000</ref> According to [[Georgetown University]] Professor [[Carroll Quigley]], Field was also an officer of what Quigley alleged was a "Communist-front organization, the Trade Union Services, Incorporated, of New York City." <ref>Carroll Quigley, ''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'' (New York: Macmillan Company, 1966) ISBN 0-945001-10-X, p. 944</ref>

After education at [[Harvard University]] and a year at the [[London School of Economics]]<ref>Robert Sherrill, “[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0DB173BF935A25753C1A965948260 A Life Devoted to a Lost Cause],” ''The New York Times'', October 16, 1983</ref> where he came under the influence of [[socialist]] [[Harold Laski]],<ref>Enid Nemy, ''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D9163EF934A35751C0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/N/Nemy,%20Enid Op. cit.],''</ref> he joined the [[Socialist Party of America]] of [[Norman Thomas]] in 1928.<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811650,00.html Life of an Angel]," ''Time,'' January 9, 1950</ref> By age 30, he had "evolved into a thoroughgoing Communist."<ref>Robert Sherrill, ''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0DB173BF935A25753C1A965948260 Op. cit.]''</ref>

After education at [[Harvard University]] and a year at the [[London School of Economics]]<ref>Robert Sherrill, “[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0DB173BF935A25753C1A965948260 A Life Devoted to a Lost Cause],” ''The New York Times'', October 16, 1983</ref> where he came under the influence of [[socialist]] [[Harold Laski]],<ref>Enid Nemy, ''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D9163EF934A35751C0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/N/Nemy,%20Enid Op. cit.],''</ref> he joined the [[Socialist Party of America]] of [[Norman Thomas]] in 1928.<ref name=timeangel /> By age 30, he had "evolved into a thoroughgoing Communist."<ref>Robert Sherrill, ''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0DB173BF935A25753C1A965948260 Op. cit.]''</ref>

==Stalinist==

==Stalinist==

Field "slavishly followed the party line."<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811650,00.html Life of an Angel]," ''Op. cit.''</ref> "[Soviet dictator Josef] [[Stalin]] was infallible," he wrote. "[A]ll my Communist surroundings told me so. So was [American Communist Party Secretary [[Earl Browder|Earl] Browder]], although on a lower level of sanctity, and so were the other CP [Communist Party] leaders."<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC&pg=PP1&dq=the+venona+secrets&sig=YjqLS-EKVnkl7tqP2RGUa0fKiUk#PPA57,M1 The Venona Secrets]'' (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2001) ISBN 0895262258, p. 57</ref> At a time when other erstwhile loyal friends of the Soviet Union were becoming disillusioned by [[Stalin]]'s [[Great Purge]], Field defended the bloody Moscow [[show trials]], saying, "because Comrade Stalin says so, we have to believe the trials are just."<ref>Robert Sherrill, ''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0DB173BF935A25753C1A965948260 Op. cit.]''</ref>

Field "slavishly followed the party line."<ref name=timeangel /> "[Soviet dictator Josef] [[Stalin]] was infallible," he wrote. "[A]ll my Communist surroundings told me so. So was [American Communist Party Secretary [[Earl Browder|Earl] Browder]], although on a lower level of sanctity, and so were the other CP [Communist Party] leaders."<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC&pg=PP1&dq=the+venona+secrets&sig=YjqLS-EKVnkl7tqP2RGUa0fKiUk#PPA57,M1 The Venona Secrets]'' (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2001) ISBN 0895262258, p. 57</ref> At a time when other erstwhile loyal friends of the Soviet Union were becoming disillusioned by [[Stalin]]'s [[Great Purge]], Field defended the bloody Moscow [[show trials]], saying, "because Comrade Stalin says so, we have to believe the trials are just."<ref>Robert Sherrill, ''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0DB173BF935A25753C1A965948260 Op. cit.]''</ref>

A year out of college, Field joined IPR, which he described as "a bourgeois research-educational organization" funded by the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations and some of the biggest corporations in the U.S., which he claimed subsidized his publication of proposals "as anticapitalistic as the articles he wrote in later decades for ''The New Masses'' and ''The Daily Worker''."<ref>''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0DB173BF935A25753C1A965948260 Ibid.]''</ref> He wrote a memo cautioning [[Owen Lattimore]], editor of the IPR quarterly ''Pacific Affairs'', with regard to a certain article, "the analysis is a straight [[Marxism|Marxist]] one and . . . should not be altered."<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822192-1,00.html Absent-Minded Professor?]" ''Time'', March 10, 1952</ref> In his role at IPR, Field "took no pay; he was, in fact, one of the institute's most generous contributors."<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811650,00.html Life of an Angel]," ''Op. cit.''</ref> He also "supported Communist causes in the 1930's, 40's and 50's,"<ref>Enid Nemy, ''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D9163EF934A35751C0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/N/Nemy,%20Enid  Op. cit.]''</ref> while Russian files add that he was "generously donating money to several organizations close to" the Soviets.<ref>Bird and Chervonnaya, ''[http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su07/ales-bird.html Op. cit.]''</ref> Quigley alleged that Field served as "the chief link between the Communists and the Institute of Pacific Relations in 1928-1947." <ref>Carroll Quigley, ''Op. cit.''</ref> He served as a Trustee of IPR, along with [[Alger Hiss]], among others, until 1947.<ref>Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Security Laws, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, ''Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments'', (Washington: U S Government Printing Office, 1954), pp. 8-10</ref> Andrew Avery, ''Chicago Journal of Commerce'' (July 1, 1946), reported that Field attended the 1945 [[United Nations]] founding conference in San Francisco as an IPR representative, and also as a writer for the ''Daily Worker.''<ref>[http://education-research.org/PDFs/splitfiles/splitprocessed/IPR03_Folder/IPR03_page4.pdf FBI Report: Southern California Division, American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations, June 13, 1947, p. 3] (FBI file: Institute of Pacific Relations, Section 3, PDF p. 4)</ref> The presiding officer was Secretary-General [[Alger Hiss]].<ref>[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/who.html Who was Alger Hiss?] The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth</ref>

A year out of college, Field joined IPR, which he described as "a bourgeois research-educational organization" funded by the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations and some of the biggest corporations in the U.S., which he claimed subsidized his publication of proposals "as anticapitalistic as the articles he wrote in later decades for ''The New Masses'' and ''The Daily Worker''."<ref>''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0DB173BF935A25753C1A965948260 Ibid.]''</ref> He wrote a memo cautioning [[Owen Lattimore]], editor of the IPR quarterly ''Pacific Affairs'', with regard to a certain article, "the analysis is a straight [[Marxism|Marxist]] one and . . . should not be altered."<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822192-1,00.html Absent-Minded Professor?]" ''Time'', March 10, 1952</ref> In his role at IPR, Field "took no pay; he was, in fact, one of the institute's most generous contributors."<ref name=timeangel /> He also "supported Communist causes in the 1930's, 40's and 50's,"<ref>Enid Nemy, ''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D9163EF934A35751C0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/N/Nemy,%20Enid  Op. cit.]''</ref> while Russian files add that he was "generously donating money to several organizations close to" the Soviets.<ref>Bird and Chervonnaya, ''[http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su07/ales-bird.html Op. cit.]''</ref> Quigley alleged that Field served as "the chief link between the Communists and the Institute of Pacific Relations in 1928-1947." <ref>Carroll Quigley, ''Op. cit.''</ref> He served as a Trustee of IPR, along with [[Alger Hiss]], among others, until 1947.<ref>Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Security Laws, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, ''Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments'', (Washington: U S Government Printing Office, 1954), pp. 8-10</ref> Andrew Avery, ''Chicago Journal of Commerce'' (July 1, 1946), reported that Field attended the 1945 [[United Nations]] founding conference in San Francisco as an IPR representative, and also as a writer for the ''Daily Worker.''<ref>[http://education-research.org/PDFs/splitfiles/splitprocessed/IPR03_Folder/IPR03_page4.pdf FBI Report: Southern California Division, American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations, June 13, 1947, p. 3] (FBI file: Institute of Pacific Relations, Section 3, PDF p. 4)</ref> The presiding officer was Secretary-General [[Alger Hiss]].<ref>[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/who.html Who was Alger Hiss?] The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth</ref>

==''Amerasia''==

==''Amerasia''==

*[http://education-research.org/index.htm The Education and Research Institute]  

*[http://education-research.org/index.htm The Education and Research Institute]  

==Notes==

==References==

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==External link==

==External links==

*[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811650,00.html?promoid=googlep Life of an Angel] ''[[Time magazine]]'' article, January 9, 1950.

*[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811650,00.html?promoid=googlep Life of an Angel] ''[[Time magazine]]'' article, January 9, 1950.

*[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D9163EF934A35751C0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/N/Nemy,%20Enid Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Wealthy Leftist, Dies at 94], Obituary from ''[[The New York Times]]'', Enid Nemy, February 7, 2000.

*[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D9163EF934A35751C0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/N/Nemy,%20Enid Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Wealthy Leftist, Dies at 94], Obituary from ''[[The New York Times]]'', Enid Nemy, February 7, 2000.

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