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==Complicity in Soviet espionage and subversion==

==Complicity in Soviet espionage and subversion==

Browder, as CPUSA General Secretary, long benefited from the denial of the [[liberal]] and [[leftist]] intelligentsia that the CPUSA did not participate in Soviet espionage against the United States. These assertions continue, despite the presentation of substantial contrary evidence over the years by [[Elizabeth Bentley]] and others <ref>John E. Haynes, ''Red Scare or Red Menace'', Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996, p. 61. </ref><ref>Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fredrikh I. Firsov, ''The Secret World of American Communism'', New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, p. 233. </ref> the [[Venona]] cables, the [[Judith  Coplon]], [[Alger Hiss]], and [[William Remington]] trials, as well as dozens of articles and books.  In the Venona cables he is known as Agent "HELMSMAN".  

Browder, as CPUSA General Secretary, long benefited from the denial of the [[liberal]] and [[leftist]] intelligentsia that the CPUSA participated in Soviet espionage against the United States. These assertions continue, despite the presentation of substantial contrary evidence over the years by [[Elizabeth Bentley]] and others <ref>John E. Haynes, ''Red Scare or Red Menace'', Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996, p. 61. </ref><ref>Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fredrikh I. Firsov, ''The Secret World of American Communism'', New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, p. 233. </ref> the [[Venona]] cables, the [[Judith  Coplon]], [[Alger Hiss]], and [[William Remington]] trials, as well as dozens of articles and books.  In the Venona cables he is known as Agent "HELMSMAN".  

In 1939 Browder appointed [[Rudy Baker]] to head the CPUSA underground apparatus to replace [[J. Peters]], after the defection of [[Whittaker Chambers]]. Browder was sentenced to prison in 1940, ostensibly due to passport violations, but was released after 14 months when the US joined [[World War II]] and became an ally of the [[Soviet Union]]. Browder embraced the [[Popular Front]] and led the CPUSA's tactic of expressing cautious support for the [[New Deal]] of [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] while demanding that it should go much further than it did.  

In 1939 Browder appointed [[Rudy Baker]] to head the CPUSA underground apparatus to replace [[J. Peters]], after the defection of [[Whittaker Chambers]]. Browder was sentenced to prison in 1940, ostensibly due to passport violations, but was released after 14 months when the US joined [[World War II]] and became an ally of the [[Soviet Union]]. Browder embraced the [[Popular Front]] and led the CPUSA's tactic of expressing cautious support for the [[New Deal]] of [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] while demanding that it should go much further than it did.