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Frank Marshall Davis was born in Arkansas City, Kansas December 31, 1905.  Davis reported he had nine years of elementary school, five years of high school, one year at Friends University, [[Wichita]] Kansaas, three and half years at Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kansas, from September 1924 to February 1927, and from September 1929 to June 1930, studying journalism.   
 
Frank Marshall Davis was born in Arkansas City, Kansas December 31, 1905.  Davis reported he had nine years of elementary school, five years of high school, one year at Friends University, [[Wichita]] Kansaas, three and half years at Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kansas, from September 1924 to February 1927, and from September 1929 to June 1930, studying journalism.   
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After College Davis went to [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]] and became Managing Editor of the ''Atlanta Daily World'' in 1931. Davis became interested in the [[Communist party]] in 1931 during the [[Scottsboro case]].<ref>FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.4, p. 29 & 30 pdf; Report of SAC Leo Brenneisen, 9/9/63, FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.2 pps. 55-59 pdf.</ref>  In 1934, he again moved to Chicago, where he served as Executive Editor of Claude Barnett's Associated Negro Press from 1935-1947.<ref>[http://mts.lib.uchicago.edu/collections/findingaids/davis.html The Frank Marshall Davis Collection, 1935-1987]</ref>  In 1936 Davis was listed as a contributing editor to the ''Spokesman'', the official organ of the Youth Section of the [[National Negro Congress]], a [[Communist front]] organization.<ref>''[[Daily Worker]]'', Augst 12 1936, cited in Report prepared from the files of the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]] for Senator William E. Jenner, Chairman of the [[Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security]], October 20 1953, [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Frank_Marshall_Davis_5.pdf FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.5 pp.9-11] pdf. </ref>  Davis was regarded as a primary outlet of CPUSA "for the distribution of news and propaganda which the [[Earl_Browder#Election_of_1944|CPA]] wishes to get out to the Negro people.  As Executive Editor of the Associated Negro Press Davis is in a position to determine what news releases shall be made by the Associated Negro Press to the various numbers of newspapers to whom it supplies news."  Davis also was the Executive Editor of the communist publication the ''[[Chicago Star]]''.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/testimonyofwalte1947unit#page/35/mode/1up Testimony of Walter S. Steele regarding Communist activities in the United States]. Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session, on H. R. 1884 and H. R. 2122, bills to curb or outlaw the Communist Party in the United States. Public law 601 (section 121, subsection Q (2) July 21, 1947, page 35.</ref>  
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After College Davis went to [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]] and became Managing Editor of the ''Atlanta Daily World'' in 1931. Davis became interested in the [[Communist party]] in 1931 during the [[Scottsboro case]].<ref>FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.4, p. 29 & 30 pdf; Report of SAC Leo Brenneisen, 9/9/63, FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.2 pps. 55-59 pdf.</ref>  In 1934, he again moved to Chicago, where he served as Executive Editor of Claude Barnett's Associated Negro Press from 1935-1947.<ref>[http://mts.lib.uchicago.edu/collections/findingaids/davis.html The Frank Marshall Davis Collection, 1935-1987]</ref>  In 1936 Davis was listed as a contributing editor to the ''Spokesman'', the official organ of the Youth Section of the [[National Negro Congress]], a [[Communist front]] organization.<ref>''[[Daily Worker]]'', Augst 12 1936, cited in Report prepared from the files of the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]] for Senator William E. Jenner, Chairman of the [[Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security]], October 20, 1953, [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Frank_Marshall_Davis_5.pdf FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.5 pp.9-11] pdf.</ref>  Davis was regarded as a primary outlet of CPUSA "for the distribution of news and propaganda which the [[Earl Browder#Election of 1944|CPA]] wishes to get out to the Negro people.  As Executive Editor of the Associated Negro Press Davis is in a position to determine what news releases shall be made by the Associated Negro Press to the various numbers of newspapers to whom it supplies news."  Davis also was the Executive Editor of the communist publication the ''[[Chicago Star]]''.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/testimonyofwalte1947unit#page/35/mode/1up Testimony of Walter S. Steele regarding Communist activities in the United States]. Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session, on H. R. 1884 and H. R. 2122, bills to curb or outlaw the Communist Party in the United States. Public law 601 (section 121, subsection Q (2) July 21, 1947, page 35.</ref>  
    
His poetry and writings became popular during the Harlem Renaissance and during the African American Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref>[http://www.kshs.org/portraits/davis_frank.htm Frank Marshall Davis] Kansas State Historical Society.</ref>  Davis met [[Langston Hughes]], [[Richard Wright]], and other leading black writers while participating in the federal [[Works Progress Administration]] Writers' Project and other organizations.<ref>[http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2342/Davis-Frank-Marshall.html Frank Marshall Davis Biography - Victim of Attempted Lynching, Worked for Associated Negro Press, Moved to Hawaii, Selected works]</ref>
 
His poetry and writings became popular during the Harlem Renaissance and during the African American Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref>[http://www.kshs.org/portraits/davis_frank.htm Frank Marshall Davis] Kansas State Historical Society.</ref>  Davis met [[Langston Hughes]], [[Richard Wright]], and other leading black writers while participating in the federal [[Works Progress Administration]] Writers' Project and other organizations.<ref>[http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2342/Davis-Frank-Marshall.html Frank Marshall Davis Biography - Victim of Attempted Lynching, Worked for Associated Negro Press, Moved to Hawaii, Selected works]</ref>
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==Communist activities in Chicago==
 
==Communist activities in Chicago==
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[[File:Jarrett-and-henry-wallace1.jpg|thumb|245px|left|Vice President [[Henry Wallace]] (left) was booted off the ticket by FDR in 1944 when questions about his mental capacity arose; he ran against his replacement, [[Harry S. Truman]] with strong [[CPUSA]] backing in 1948. [[Vernon Jarrett]] (right) had high praise for [[Barack Obama]]'s communitiy organizing during a 1992  event sponsored by the ''Chicago Defender''.<ref>"Project Vote...registered 2,000 during the ''Chicago Defender'''s annual Bud Billiken Parade...If Project Vote is to reach its goal of registering 150,000 out of an estimated 400,000 unregistered blacks statewide, "it must average 10,000 rather than 7,000 every week," says [[Barack Obama]], the program's executive director."{{cite news|author=Jarrett, Vernon|date=August 11, 1992|title='Project Vote' brings power to the people|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=(Vernon%20Jarrett)%20AND%20date(8/11/1992%20to%208/11/1992)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=8/11/1992%20to%208/11/1992)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(Vernon%20Jarrett)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no|work=Chicago Sun-Times|page=23|}} </ref>  Jarrett's daughter-in-law, [[Valerie Jarrett]], is the Senior Advisor to [[President Obama]] for Intergovernmental Affairs. [http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/staff/valerie_jarrett/] ]]
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[[File:Jarrett-and-henry-wallace1.jpg|thumb|245px|left|Vice President [[Henry Wallace]] (left) was booted off the ticket by FDR in 1944 when questions about his mental capacity arose; he ran against his replacement, [[Harry S. Truman]] with strong [[CPUSA]] backing in 1948. [[Vernon Jarrett]] (right) had high praise for [[Barack Obama]]'s communitiy organizing during a 1992  event sponsored by the ''Chicago Defender''.<ref>"Project Vote...registered 2,000 during the ''Chicago Defender'''s annual Bud Billiken Parade...If Project Vote is to reach its goal of registering 150,000 out of an estimated 400,000 unregistered blacks statewide, "it must average 10,000 rather than 7,000 every week," says [[Barack Obama]], the program's executive director."{{cite news|author=Jarrett, Vernon|date=August 11, 1992|title='Project Vote' brings power to the people|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=(Vernon%20Jarrett)%20AND%20date(8/11/1992%20to%208/11/1992)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=8/11/1992%20to%208/11/1992)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(Vernon%20Jarrett)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no|work=Chicago Sun-Times|page=23}}</ref>  Jarrett's daughter-in-law, [[Valerie Jarrett]], is the Senior Advisor to [[President Obama]] for Intergovernmental Affairs. [http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/staff/valerie_jarrett/] ]]
    
===Jarrett===
 
===Jarrett===
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According to Davis he met [[CPUSA]] Central Committeeman [[Harry Bridges]] in 1945 while on the faculty of the [[Abraham Lincoln School]]<ref>Frank Marshall Davis, [http://books.google.com/books?id=BabHjAEzkdwC&dq=Frank+Marshall+Davis,+Livin'+the+Blues,+Memoirs+of+a+Black+Journalist+and+Poet,+University+of+Wisconsin+Press,+Madison,+1992&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=EHN_Supoj4y0A4qwje8K&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Livin' the Blues, Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet'',] University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1992, p. 311.</ref> in Chicago, cited as a [[subversive]] organization by U.S. Attorney General [[Tom Clark]]<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/guidetosubversiv1951aunit/guidetosubversiv1951aunit_djvu.txt Guide to subversive organizations and publications (and appendix) (1951)] United States. Congress. [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]]. Washington U.S. Govt. Print. Office.  "1. Cited as an adjunct of the Communist Party. (Attorney General Tom Clark, letter to Loyalty Review Board, released December 4, 1947.) 2. Successor of the Workers School as a "Communist educational medium" in Chicago. (Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Report, March 29, 1944, V- 82.) 3. Cited as a "Communist institution." (California Committee on Un-American Activities, Report,  
 
According to Davis he met [[CPUSA]] Central Committeeman [[Harry Bridges]] in 1945 while on the faculty of the [[Abraham Lincoln School]]<ref>Frank Marshall Davis, [http://books.google.com/books?id=BabHjAEzkdwC&dq=Frank+Marshall+Davis,+Livin'+the+Blues,+Memoirs+of+a+Black+Journalist+and+Poet,+University+of+Wisconsin+Press,+Madison,+1992&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=EHN_Supoj4y0A4qwje8K&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Livin' the Blues, Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet'',] University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1992, p. 311.</ref> in Chicago, cited as a [[subversive]] organization by U.S. Attorney General [[Tom Clark]]<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/guidetosubversiv1951aunit/guidetosubversiv1951aunit_djvu.txt Guide to subversive organizations and publications (and appendix) (1951)] United States. Congress. [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]]. Washington U.S. Govt. Print. Office.  "1. Cited as an adjunct of the Communist Party. (Attorney General Tom Clark, letter to Loyalty Review Board, released December 4, 1947.) 2. Successor of the Workers School as a "Communist educational medium" in Chicago. (Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Report, March 29, 1944, V- 82.) 3. Cited as a "Communist institution." (California Committee on Un-American Activities, Report,  
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1948, pp. 95 and 120.)"</ref> and again under Executive Order 10450.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/davis.FBI.File.pdf FBI file Frank Marshall Davis], Summary file edited by Cliff Kincaid, p. 11, 14, 16, 17.</ref><ref>[http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/10450.html Executive Order 10450]--Security requirements for Government employment.</ref>  Davis was associated with several other organizations on the [[Attorney General's List of Totalitarian, Fascist, Communist, Subversive, and Other Organizations]] including the [[American Youth for Democracy]], [[National Federation for Constitutional Liberties]], [[League of American Writers]],<ref>The Summer (1938) issue of the ''The Bulletin'' listed Frank Marshall Davis as Treasurer of the Chicago Chapter of the League of American Writers.  He signed the "Call to the Fourth Congress, June 6-8, 1941, New York City," sponsored by the League. (See ''[[New Masses]]'', April 22 1941, page 25). Cited in Report prepared from the files of the House Committee on Un-American Activities for Senator William E. Jenner, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security, October 20 1953, FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.5 pp.9-11 pdf.</ref> and the [[National Negro Congress]], according to the Reports of the Commission on Subversive Activities of the Territory of Hawaii.   
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1948, pp. 95 and 120.)"</ref> and again under Executive Order 10450.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/davis.FBI.File.pdf FBI file Frank Marshall Davis], Summary file edited by Cliff Kincaid, p. 11, 14, 16, 17.</ref><ref>[http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/10450.html Executive Order 10450]--Security requirements for Government employment.</ref>  Davis was associated with several other organizations on the [[Attorney General's List of Totalitarian, Fascist, Communist, Subversive, and Other Organizations]] including the [[American Youth for Democracy]], [[National Federation for Constitutional Liberties]], [[League of American Writers]],<ref>The Summer (1938) issue of the ''The Bulletin'' listed Frank Marshall Davis as Treasurer of the Chicago Chapter of the League of American Writers.  He signed the "Call to the Fourth Congress, June 6–8, 1941, New York City," sponsored by the League. (See ''[[New Masses]]'', April 22, 1941, page 25). Cited in Report prepared from the files of the House Committee on Un-American Activities for Senator William E. Jenner, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security, October 20, 1953, FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.5 pp.9-11 pdf.</ref> and the [[National Negro Congress]], according to the Reports of the Commission on Subversive Activities of the Territory of Hawaii.   
    
Davis, like [[Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]], was in the [[FBI]]'s security index, meaning he could be arrested and detained in the event of a national emergency.
 
Davis, like [[Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]], was in the [[FBI]]'s security index, meaning he could be arrested and detained in the event of a national emergency.
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===Robeson===
 
===Robeson===
 
[[File:Robesonand fast.jpg|thumb|235px|right|Singer Paul Robeson (left) shortly after the [[Peekskill riots]]. [http://www.trussel.com/hf/pkphotos.htm] [[Howard Fast]] stands on the right. Fast presented Robeson with the [[Stalin Peace Prize]] in a ceremony in [[New York]] after Robeson was denied a passport to travel to [[Moscow]] to accept it. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/vieilles_annonces/3655546564/] ]]
 
[[File:Robesonand fast.jpg|thumb|235px|right|Singer Paul Robeson (left) shortly after the [[Peekskill riots]]. [http://www.trussel.com/hf/pkphotos.htm] [[Howard Fast]] stands on the right. Fast presented Robeson with the [[Stalin Peace Prize]] in a ceremony in [[New York]] after Robeson was denied a passport to travel to [[Moscow]] to accept it. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/vieilles_annonces/3655546564/] ]]
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Davis stated singer [[Paul Robeson]], a secret communist, was instrumental in helping Davis move to [[Hawaii]].<ref>[http://www2.hawaii.edu/~takara/frank_marshall_davis.htm Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and Outsider Journalist]: Social Movements in Hawai`i, by: Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D.</ref>  Robeson and Davis both were active in the [[Civil Rights Congress]]<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/reportoncivilrig1947unit#page/12/mode/1up Report on Civil Rights Congress as a communist front organization.] Investigation of un-American activities in the United States, Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. September 2, 1947. pp. 1-13, 19, 21-22.</ref><ref>[http://www.hawaii.edu/uhwo/clear/HonoluluRecord1/volume%201/v1n41.pdf ''Honolulu Record'', May 12 1949, v.1 no.41. p.3.]</ref> and other subversive groups.<ref>Both were active in the [[National Negro Congress]]; <small>the 1954 [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Scope_of_Soviet_Activity.pdf Reports of the Commission on Subversive Activities of the Territory of Hawaii], pp.3-4 states, '''Communist Reactions to 1953 Report.''' The Communist ''Honolulu Record'' devoted an inside-page article to the 1953 Report and its columnist, Frank Marshall Davis, on August 6, 1953 wrote about the commission and the report. In his column Davis was guilty of the usual Communist editorial dishonesty. The following is copied from his column, and purports to be a quotation from the 1953 report : "Nor has Davis confined his inflammatory racial propaganda to the columns of the Honolulu Record alone. His story, ''Hawaii's Plain People Fight White Supremacy'', appeared in the November 1951 issue of ''Freedom'', a tabloid publication emanating from New York City. * * * Chairman of the editorial board of ''Freedom'' is Paul Robeson."  
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Davis stated singer [[Paul Robeson]], a secret communist, was instrumental in helping Davis move to [[Hawaii]].<ref>[http://www2.hawaii.edu/~takara/frank_marshall_davis.htm Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and Outsider Journalist]: Social Movements in Hawai`i, by: Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D.</ref>  Robeson and Davis both were active in the [[Civil Rights Congress]]<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/reportoncivilrig1947unit#page/12/mode/1up Report on Civil Rights Congress as a communist front organization.] Investigation of un-American activities in the United States, Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. September 2, 1947. pp. 1-13, 19, 21-22.</ref><ref>[http://www.hawaii.edu/uhwo/clear/HonoluluRecord1/volume%201/v1n41.pdf ''Honolulu Record'', May 12 1949, v.1 no.41. p.3.]</ref> and other subversive groups.<ref>Both were active in the [[National Negro Congress]]; the 1954 [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Scope_of_Soviet_Activity.pdf Reports of the Commission on Subversive Activities of the Territory of Hawaii], pp.3-4 states, '''Communist Reactions to 1953 Report.''' The Communist ''Honolulu Record'' devoted an inside-page article to the 1953 Report and its columnist, Frank Marshall Davis, on August 6, 1953 wrote about the commission and the report. In his column Davis was guilty of the usual Communist editorial dishonesty. The following is copied from his column, and purports to be a quotation from the 1953 report : "Nor has Davis confined his inflammatory racial propaganda to the columns of the Honolulu Record alone. His story, ''Hawaii's Plain People Fight White Supremacy'', appeared in the November 1951 issue of ''Freedom'', a tabloid publication emanating from New York City. * * * Chairman of the editorial board of ''Freedom'' is Paul Robeson."  
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However, the commission actually reported : "Nor has Davis confined his inflammatory racial propaganda to the columns of the ''Honolulu Record'' alone. His story, ''Hawaii's Plain People Fight White Supremacy'', appeared in the November 1951 issue of ''Freedom'', a tabloid publication emanating from New York City, whose treatment of interracial problems strikingly conforms to Communist Party policy.  The chairman of the editorial board is Paul Robeson, an identified member of the Communist Party."</small></ref>  Robeson invoked the [[Fifth Amendment]] when asked if he had known [[Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]], [[Leon Josephson]], [[Louise Bransten]] or [[Gregory Kheifits]].<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/investigationofu0304unit#page/4497/mode/1up ''Testimony of Paul Robeson,''] Investigation of the Unauthorized Use of United States Passports- Part 3, Hearings before the Un-American Activities Committee, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress Second Session, June 12 and 13, 1956, pp. 4495-4497.</ref> [[Greg Silvermaster]] was the head of an [[Silvermaster group|extraordinarily large apparatus]]<ref>[http://www.raleighspyconference.com/news/Haynes%20CPUSA%20as%20Auxiliary.pdf ''The American Communist Party as an Auxiliary to Espionage: From Asset to liability], 2005 Raleigh International Spy Conference, John Earl Haynes, Washington, D.C.</ref> of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]] Brain Trusters working for the KGB.  Robeson also invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked if he had ever been in the home of Louise Bransten. It was in the home of Bransten that Bransten's lover, West Coast [[Rezident|KGB Station Chief]] Gregory Kheifits, met another unlisted<ref>[http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.document&identifier=5034F6F1-96B6-175C-9170648C02EA02F8&sort=Collection&item=Post%20Stalin%20succession%20struggle Memorandum Boris Merkulov (USSR People’s Commissar for State Security) to [[Lavrenty Beria]] (USSR People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs)], 2 October 1944.</ref> member of the communist party, [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] head of the [[Manhattan project]], who agreed to share information with the KGB.<ref>Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schecter, Leona P. Schecter, ''Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness -- A Soviet Spymaster'', Little Brown, Boston (1994), pp. 190, 193.</ref>
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However, the commission actually reported : "Nor has Davis confined his inflammatory racial propaganda to the columns of the ''Honolulu Record'' alone. His story, ''Hawaii's Plain People Fight White Supremacy'', appeared in the November 1951 issue of ''Freedom'', a tabloid publication emanating from New York City, whose treatment of interracial problems strikingly conforms to Communist Party policy.  The chairman of the editorial board is Paul Robeson, an identified member of the Communist Party."</ref>  Robeson invoked the [[Fifth Amendment]] when asked if he had known [[Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]], [[Leon Josephson]], [[Louise Bransten]] or [[Gregory Kheifits]].<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/investigationofu0304unit#page/4497/mode/1up ''Testimony of Paul Robeson,''] Investigation of the Unauthorized Use of United States Passports- Part 3, Hearings before the Un-American Activities Committee, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress Second Session, June 12 and 13, 1956, pp. 4495-4497.</ref> [[Greg Silvermaster]] was the head of an [[Silvermaster group|extraordinarily large apparatus]]<ref>[http://www.raleighspyconference.com/news/Haynes%20CPUSA%20as%20Auxiliary.pdf ''The American Communist Party as an Auxiliary to Espionage: From Asset to liability], 2005 Raleigh International Spy Conference, John Earl Haynes, Washington, D.C.</ref> of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]] Brain Trusters working for the KGB.  Robeson also invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked if he had ever been in the home of Louise Bransten. It was in the home of Bransten that Bransten's lover, West Coast [[Rezident|KGB Station Chief]] Gregory Kheifits, met another unlisted<ref>[http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.document&identifier=5034F6F1-96B6-175C-9170648C02EA02F8&sort=Collection&item=Post%20Stalin%20succession%20struggle Memorandum Boris Merkulov (USSR People’s Commissar for State Security) to [[Lavrenty Beria]] (USSR People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs)], 2 October 1944.</ref> member of the communist party, [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] head of the [[Manhattan project]], who agreed to share information with the KGB.<ref>Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schecter, Leona P. Schecter, ''Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness -- A Soviet Spymaster'', Little Brown, Boston (1994), pp. 190, 193.</ref>
    
==Communist activities in Hawaii==
 
==Communist activities in Hawaii==
    
===ILWU===
 
===ILWU===
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Upon Davis's assignment to Hawaii he met with ILWU regional director Jack Hall,<ref>Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and Outsider Journalist: Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D.</ref><ref>[http://www.aim.org/aim-report/the-frank-marshall-davis-network/ ''The Frank Marshall Davis Network,''] By Andrew Walden, AIM Report, September 1, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/09/13/news/story7.html Obituary Jack Wayne Hall], ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'', September 13, 1999.</ref> convicted under the [[Smith Act]] for conspiracy to overthrow the United States Government.  The ILWU controlled the ''Honolulu Record''<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party,] By Andrew Walden, ''American Thinker'', July 8 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/scopeofsovietact411956unit#page/n248/mode/1up Scope of Soviet activity in the United States.] Hearing before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session - Eighty-fifth Congress, first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. (1956), pp. 2679-2681.</ref> and the ILWU Book Club.  Among the authors made available through the ILWU Book Club were [[Saul Alinsky]], [[Howard Fast]], [[Philip S. Foner]], [[Carl Marzani]] and [[Victor Perlo]].   
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Upon Davis's assignment to Hawaii he met with ILWU regional director Jack Hall,<ref>Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and Outsider Journalist: Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D.</ref><ref>[http://www.aim.org/aim-report/the-frank-marshall-davis-network/ ''The Frank Marshall Davis Network,''] By Andrew Walden, AIM Report, September 1, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/09/13/news/story7.html Obituary Jack Wayne Hall], ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'', September 13, 1999.</ref> convicted under the [[Smith Act]] for conspiracy to overthrow the United States Government.  The ILWU controlled the ''Honolulu Record''<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party,] By Andrew Walden, ''American Thinker'', July 8, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/scopeofsovietact411956unit#page/n248/mode/1up Scope of Soviet activity in the United States.] Hearing before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session - Eighty-fifth Congress, first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. (1956), pp. 2679-2681.</ref> and the ILWU Book Club.  Among the authors made available through the ILWU Book Club were [[Saul Alinsky]], [[Howard Fast]], [[Philip S. Foner]], [[Carl Marzani]] and [[Victor Perlo]].   
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Marzani, like Ariyoshi, was a [[KGB]] agent working in the [[Office of Strategic Services]] during [[World War II]].  Victor Perlo headed the notorious [[Perlo group]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=pNwEyL1b6XQC&pg=PA67&dq=perlo%2Bhaynes%2B#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics''] Cambridge Essential Histories, September 2006, pp. 67-71.</ref> of which the full extent of damage done to American [[national security]] may never be known.  Perlo's book, ''American Imperialism'',<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-5850(195201)28%3A1%3C132%3AAI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4&cookieSet=1 Review], Nancy Balfour, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan., 1952).</ref> offered through the ILWU Book Club, was used for [[brainwash]]ing American prisoners of war in [[North Korean]] reeducation camps.  Perlo always denied being a communist, claiming he had only been "helping in my humble way to carry out the great [[New Deal]] program under the leadership of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]"<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=dIsmm_ZLHcIC&pg=PA128&dq=helping+in+my+humble+way+to+carry+out+the+great+new+deal#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America''] John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 128-129. </ref>  until 1981 when he was appointed to the [[CPUSA]] [[Politburo]] and openly criticized [[CPSU]] General Secretary [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] and [[Russia]]n President [[Boris Yeltsin]] for betraying [[Stalinism]].<ref>[http://mltoday.com/en/the-economic-and-political-crisis-in-the-ussr-146.html ''The Economic and Political Crisis in the USSR'', Victor Perlo] [[Political Affairs]], August 1991.</ref><ref>[http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/98rad/Lessons_from_Cuba,_then_and_now ''Lessons from Cuba, then and now'', Victor and Ellen Perlo] [[People's Weekly World]], 31 January 1998.</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20050620045117/http://agitprop.org.au/stopnato/1999112015.php ''War and the US Economy'', Vic Perlo] Political Affairs (US), July 1999.</ref>
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Marzani, like Ariyoshi, was a [[KGB]] agent working in the [[Office of Strategic Services]] during [[World War II]].  Victor Perlo headed the notorious [[Perlo group]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=pNwEyL1b6XQC&pg=PA67&dq=perlo%2Bhaynes%2B#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics''] Cambridge Essential Histories, September 2006, pp. 67-71.</ref> of which the full extent of damage done to American [[national security]] may never be known.  Perlo's book, ''American Imperialism'',<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-5850(195201)28%3A1%3C132%3AAI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4&cookieSet=1 Review], Nancy Balfour, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan., 1952).</ref> offered through the ILWU Book Club, was used for [[brainwash]]ing American prisoners of war in [[North Korean]] reeducation camps.  Perlo always denied being a communist, claiming he had only been "helping in my humble way to carry out the great [[New Deal]] program under the leadership of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]"<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=dIsmm_ZLHcIC&pg=PA128&dq=helping+in+my+humble+way+to+carry+out+the+great+new+deal#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America''] John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 128-129.</ref>  until 1981 when he was appointed to the [[CPUSA]] [[Politburo]] and openly criticized [[CPSU]] General Secretary [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] and [[Russia]]n President [[Boris Yeltsin]] for betraying [[Stalinism]].<ref>[http://mltoday.com/en/the-economic-and-political-crisis-in-the-ussr-146.html ''The Economic and Political Crisis in the USSR'', Victor Perlo] [[Political Affairs]], August 1991.</ref><ref>[http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/98rad/Lessons_from_Cuba,_then_and_now ''Lessons from Cuba, then and now'', Victor and Ellen Perlo] [[People's Weekly World]], 31 January 1998.</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20050620045117/http://agitprop.org.au/stopnato/1999112015.php ''War and the US Economy'', Vic Perlo] Political Affairs (US), July 1999.</ref>
    
===Hawaii NAACP charter revoked===
 
===Hawaii NAACP charter revoked===
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The [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]] (SISS) published a report in 1955 entitled, ''The Communist Party, USA — What It Is — How It Works.''<ref>[http://www.archive.org/texts/flipbook/flippy.php?id=communistpartyof1955unit''The Communist Party, USA — What It Is — How It Works''], Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act, United States Senate, 84th Congress 1st Session, December 21 1955, GPO, Washington D.C., pp. v., 15.</ref>  The study intended to differentiate the CPUSA from "[[bona fide]]" political parties after the [[Subversive Activities Control Act]] proscribed into [[law]] the following:  
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The [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]] (SISS) published a report in 1955 entitled, ''The Communist Party, USA — What It Is — How It Works.''<ref>[http://www.archive.org/texts/flipbook/flippy.php?id=communistpartyof1955unit''The Communist Party, USA — What It Is — How It Works''], Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act, United States Senate, 84th Congress 1st Session, December 21, 1955, GPO, Washington D.C., pp. v., 15.</ref>  The study intended to differentiate the CPUSA from "[[bona fide]]" political parties after the [[Subversive Activities Control Act]] proscribed into [[law]] the following:  
 
{{Cquote|The Congress finds and declares that the [[Communist Party of the United States]], although purportedly a political party, is in fact an instrumentality of a [[conspiracy]] to overthrow the Government of the United States...the policies and programs of the Communist Party are secretly prescribed for it by the foreign leaders...members of the Communist Party are recruited for indoctrination with respect to its objectives and methods, and are organized, instructed, and disciplined to carry into action slavishly the assignments given them....Its role as the agency of a hostile foreign power renders its existence a clear present and continuing danger to the security of the United States. It is the means whereby individuals are seduced into the service of the world Communist movement, trained to do its bidding, and directed and controlled in the conspiratorial performance of their [[revolution]]ary services.<ref>[http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode50/usc_sec_50_00000841----000-.html Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950], U.S. Code Title 50 Chapter 23 Subchapter IV Sec. 841.</ref>}}  
 
{{Cquote|The Congress finds and declares that the [[Communist Party of the United States]], although purportedly a political party, is in fact an instrumentality of a [[conspiracy]] to overthrow the Government of the United States...the policies and programs of the Communist Party are secretly prescribed for it by the foreign leaders...members of the Communist Party are recruited for indoctrination with respect to its objectives and methods, and are organized, instructed, and disciplined to carry into action slavishly the assignments given them....Its role as the agency of a hostile foreign power renders its existence a clear present and continuing danger to the security of the United States. It is the means whereby individuals are seduced into the service of the world Communist movement, trained to do its bidding, and directed and controlled in the conspiratorial performance of their [[revolution]]ary services.<ref>[http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode50/usc_sec_50_00000841----000-.html Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950], U.S. Code Title 50 Chapter 23 Subchapter IV Sec. 841.</ref>}}  
 
Without going into detailed analysis of Communist activity in the labor movement, among [[African-American]]s, women, youth, foreign language groups, or in [[Communist front|front organization]]s the SISS report described a fundamental CPUSA strategy of [[infiltration]] and [[subversion]] using divisiveness:  
 
Without going into detailed analysis of Communist activity in the labor movement, among [[African-American]]s, women, youth, foreign language groups, or in [[Communist front|front organization]]s the SISS report described a fundamental CPUSA strategy of [[infiltration]] and [[subversion]] using divisiveness:  
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=== Honolulu Record ===
 
=== Honolulu Record ===
 
[[File:Kojiandmoa2.JPG|thumb|250px|right|''Honolulu Record'' editor Koji Ariyoshi with [[Chinese Communist Party]] chairman [[Mao Zedong]]. According to Prof. R.J. Rummel, 38,702,000 persons were [[murder]] victims of Chinese Communist [[democide]].<ref>R.J. Rummel. [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE2.HTM#PREFACE ''China's Bloody Century''], New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991, Preface.</ref>  ]]
 
[[File:Kojiandmoa2.JPG|thumb|250px|right|''Honolulu Record'' editor Koji Ariyoshi with [[Chinese Communist Party]] chairman [[Mao Zedong]]. According to Prof. R.J. Rummel, 38,702,000 persons were [[murder]] victims of Chinese Communist [[democide]].<ref>R.J. Rummel. [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE2.HTM#PREFACE ''China's Bloody Century''], New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991, Preface.</ref>  ]]
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During April of 1951, a national convention of the ILWU was held in Honolulu.  This convention was attended by Al Richmond, editor of the ''[[Daily People's World]]'' and chairman of the press commission of District 13 of the [[Communist Party USA]].  Richmond attended meetings of the executive board where the policy of the ''Honolulu Record'', as an agitational outlet of the policy of the Communist Party was discussed.  Policy lines were set down by the executive board in regard to the ''Record'' policy.  The editorial policies of the ''Record'' editor, Koji Ariyoshi, came under fire by Richmond in that Richmond criticized Ariyoshi's policies as  being [[deviationist]].  In particular, Ariyoshi was criticized for not giving the biggest issue of the current Communist line, the so-called "peace line" during the early [[Cold War]], proper emphasis in the ''Record''.  
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During April 1951, a national convention of the ILWU was held in Honolulu.  This convention was attended by Al Richmond, editor of the ''[[Daily People's World]]'' and chairman of the press commission of District 13 of the [[Communist Party USA]].  Richmond attended meetings of the executive board where the policy of the ''Honolulu Record'', as an agitational outlet of the policy of the Communist Party was discussed.  Policy lines were set down by the executive board in regard to the ''Record'' policy.  The editorial policies of the ''Record'' editor, Koji Ariyoshi, came under fire by Richmond in that Richmond criticized Ariyoshi's policies as  being [[deviationist]].  In particular, Ariyoshi was criticized for not giving the biggest issue of the current Communist line, the so-called "peace line" during the early [[Cold War]], proper emphasis in the ''Record''.  
    
A former official of the Communist Party of Hawaii stated under oath,
 
A former official of the Communist Party of Hawaii stated under oath,
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==International affairs==
 
==International affairs==
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In 1963 [[FBI]] Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]] made a hand written note in the file authorizing a direct approach to Davis who had been under investigation for 19 years<ref>[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/23/without-america/ ''GAFFNEY:Without America'',] Frank J. Gaffney Jr. September 23, 2008.</ref> and had never been interviewed.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Frank_Marshall_Davis_2.pdf FBI file Frank Marshall Davis] v.2 p.49 pdf.</ref>  During the interview Davis claimed he was motivated by social policy and not interested in international politics<ref>FBI file Frank Marshall Davis v.2 p.58 pdf.</ref> yet the record shows otherwise. Davis's column of January 24 1957 for example says,
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In 1963 [[FBI]] Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]] made a hand written note in the file authorizing a direct approach to Davis who had been under investigation for 19 years<ref>[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/23/without-america/ ''GAFFNEY:Without America'',] Frank J. Gaffney Jr. September 23, 2008.</ref> and had never been interviewed.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Frank_Marshall_Davis_2.pdf FBI file Frank Marshall Davis] v.2 p.49 pdf.</ref>  During the interview Davis claimed he was motivated by social policy and not interested in international politics<ref>FBI file Frank Marshall Davis v.2 p.58 pdf.</ref> yet the record shows otherwise. Davis's column of January 24, 1957 for example says,
 
{{Cquote|I received a copy of the ''[[National Guardian]]'' on Dec. 31  In it was an article headed 'The Negro Press on [[Hungary]] and Egypt--Do hearts bleed for white skins only?' and containing a summary of the opinion formed in assorted Negro newspapers...Because I think the opinions of the press serving 18,000,000 colored Americans are of importance to the people of Hawaii, I am reprinting the ''Guardian'' summary:...<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Frank_Marshall_Davis_1.pdf FBI file Frank Marshall Davis] v.1 p.50-51 pdf</ref>}}
 
{{Cquote|I received a copy of the ''[[National Guardian]]'' on Dec. 31  In it was an article headed 'The Negro Press on [[Hungary]] and Egypt--Do hearts bleed for white skins only?' and containing a summary of the opinion formed in assorted Negro newspapers...Because I think the opinions of the press serving 18,000,000 colored Americans are of importance to the people of Hawaii, I am reprinting the ''Guardian'' summary:...<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Frank_Marshall_Davis_1.pdf FBI file Frank Marshall Davis] v.1 p.50-51 pdf</ref>}}
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This was shortly after the violent and bloody anti-communist [[History_of_Hungary#Communist_Control|Hungarian uprising]] in 1956.  The ''Guardian'' was founded by [[KGB]] operatives [[Cedric Belfrage]] and [[James Aronson]].  During the [[Korean War]], ''Guardian'' carried false reports on American use of [[wmd|germ warfare]] which many American [[leftist]]s still charge America with to this day.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=22440 Cold War Revelations and "Progressive" Holocaust Denial,] Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine.com October 28, 1999.</ref><ref>[http://www.iacenter.org/Koreafiles/ktc-park.htm Rethinking Nogun-ri Massacre on the 50th Anniversary of the Korean War], Sung Yong Park, The International Action Center, New York. The International Action Center was founded by [[Ramsey Clark]].</ref>  Documents from Russian Archives prove, more than four decades after the fact, the United States was the victim of a [[disinformation]] campaign.<ref>Bruce B. Auster, [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/981116/archive_005192.htm ''Unmasking An Old Lie: A Korean War Charge Is Exposed As a Hoax''], U. S. News & World Report (16 November 1998), p. 52. </ref>  The ''Guardian'' correspondent who reported the disinformation actually assisted North Korean interrogators in extracting bogus confessions from American prisoners of war.<ref>[http://www.questia.com/library/book/nazis-communists-klansmen-and-others-on-the-fringe-political-extremism-in-america-by-john-george-laird-wilcox.jsp''Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America,'']John George and Laird Wilcox, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1992,  Chapter 9, ''[[Guardian (NY)]]'', pgs. 125-131. (ISBN 0-87975-680-2).</ref>
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This was shortly after the violent and bloody anti-communist [[History of Hungary#Communist Control|Hungarian uprising]] in 1956.  The ''Guardian'' was founded by [[KGB]] operatives [[Cedric Belfrage]] and [[James Aronson]].  During the [[Korean War]], ''Guardian'' carried false reports on American use of [[wmd|germ warfare]] which many American [[leftist]]s still charge America with to this day.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=22440 Cold War Revelations and "Progressive" Holocaust Denial,] Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine.com October 28, 1999.</ref><ref>[http://www.iacenter.org/Koreafiles/ktc-park.htm Rethinking Nogun-ri Massacre on the 50th Anniversary of the Korean War], Sung Yong Park, The International Action Center, New York. The International Action Center was founded by [[Ramsey Clark]].</ref>  Documents from Russian Archives prove, more than four decades after the fact, the United States was the victim of a [[disinformation]] campaign.<ref>Bruce B. Auster, [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/981116/archive_005192.htm ''Unmasking An Old Lie: A Korean War Charge Is Exposed As a Hoax''], U. S. News & World Report (16 November 1998), p. 52.</ref>  The ''Guardian'' correspondent who reported the disinformation actually assisted North Korean interrogators in extracting bogus confessions from American prisoners of war.<ref>[http://www.questia.com/library/book/nazis-communists-klansmen-and-others-on-the-fringe-political-extremism-in-america-by-john-george-laird-wilcox.jsp''Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America,''] John George and Laird Wilcox, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1992,  Chapter 9, ''[[Guardian (NY)]]'', pgs. 125-131. (ISBN 0-87975-680-2).</ref>
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Shortly after [[North Korea]] invaded the South across the 38th parallel on June 25 1950, Davis wrote  
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Shortly after [[North Korea]] invaded the South across the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950, Davis wrote  
 
{{Cquote|In addition to muffing the [[moral]] leadership we have given the colored people of the globe still another count against the U.S. as a nation.  The U.S. is considered to be a white man's country.  You may be sure that the spectacle of white Americans shooting down Orientals of [[North Korea]] will not be ignored by the rest of the Asia and Africa who are struggling to throw off the yoke of what they call 'white imperialism'.}}
 
{{Cquote|In addition to muffing the [[moral]] leadership we have given the colored people of the globe still another count against the U.S. as a nation.  The U.S. is considered to be a white man's country.  You may be sure that the spectacle of white Americans shooting down Orientals of [[North Korea]] will not be ignored by the rest of the Asia and Africa who are struggling to throw off the yoke of what they call 'white imperialism'.}}
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In his column of August 3 1950 Davis devoted considerable space in quoting from ''The Situation in Asia'' by [[Owen Lattimore]] in an effort to show that [[North Korea]]ns supported their government more than the people of [[South Korea]].<ref>FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, Report of SAC W. Knapp, 11/13/50, v.4 pp. 28-46 pdf.</ref>
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In his column of August 3, 1950 Davis devoted considerable space in quoting from ''The Situation in Asia'' by [[Owen Lattimore]] in an effort to show that [[North Korea]]ns supported their government more than the people of [[South Korea]].<ref>FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, Report of SAC W. Knapp, 11/13/50, v.4 pp. 28-46 pdf.</ref>
    
In his ''Honolulu Record'' columns Davis regularly condemned the [[Marshall Plan]], the [[Truman Doctrine]], the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|North Atlantic Treaty]] and routinely sung the praises of [[Kim Il Sung]]'s [[North Korea]].
 
In his ''Honolulu Record'' columns Davis regularly condemned the [[Marshall Plan]], the [[Truman Doctrine]], the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|North Atlantic Treaty]] and routinely sung the praises of [[Kim Il Sung]]'s [[North Korea]].
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In [[Barack Obama]]'s ''Dreams from my Father'', the author disguises the identity of an old man named "Frank" whose struggles the author identifies with.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=HRCHJp-V0QUC&pg=PA97&dq=manipulate+words+so+they+don%27t+mean+anything+anymore#v=onepage&q=manipulate%20words%20so%20they%20don't%20mean%20anything%20anymore&f=false ''Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance''], By Barack Obama, Random House, 2007, pp. 97, 220.</ref>  In 2007 Prof. Gerald Horne outed the identity of "Frank" at a Communist party gathering and published in an article entitled, ''Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party'':
 
In [[Barack Obama]]'s ''Dreams from my Father'', the author disguises the identity of an old man named "Frank" whose struggles the author identifies with.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=HRCHJp-V0QUC&pg=PA97&dq=manipulate+words+so+they+don%27t+mean+anything+anymore#v=onepage&q=manipulate%20words%20so%20they%20don't%20mean%20anything%20anymore&f=false ''Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance''], By Barack Obama, Random House, 2007, pp. 97, 220.</ref>  In 2007 Prof. Gerald Horne outed the identity of "Frank" at a Communist party gathering and published in an article entitled, ''Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party'':
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{{Cquote|At some point in the future, a teacher will add to her syllabus Barack’s memoir and instruct her students to read it alongside Frank Marshall Davis’ equally affecting memoir...when that day comes...a future student will ...examine critically the Frankenstein monsters that US imperialism created in order to subdue Communist parties..."<ref>[http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5047/  Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party], By Gerald Horne, ''Political Affairs magazine, March 28 2007.</ref>}}
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{{Cquote|At some point in the future, a teacher will add to her syllabus Barack’s memoir and instruct her students to read it alongside Frank Marshall Davis’ equally affecting memoir...when that day comes...a future student will ...examine critically the Frankenstein monsters that US imperialism created in order to subdue Communist parties..."<ref>[http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5047/  Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party], By Gerald Horne, ''Political Affairs magazine, March 28, 2007.</ref>}}
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There is no evidence Davis ever abandoned his commitment to what [[Allen Weinstein]] described as "a murderous and discredited ideology."  In 1999 it was reported 3 million [[North Korea]]ns starved to death<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/281132.stm North Korea 'loses 3 million to famine'], [[BBC]], February 17, 1999.</ref> in the Socialist workers paradise Davis so cherished while others were eating grass to survive.<ref>Citation
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There is no evidence Davis ever abandoned his commitment to what [[Allen Weinstein]] described as "a murderous and discredited ideology."  In 1999 it was reported 3 million [[North Korea]]ns starved to death<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/281132.stm North Korea 'loses 3 million to famine'], [[BBC]], February 17, 1999.</ref> in the Socialist workers paradise Davis so cherished while others were eating grass to survive.<ref>{{Citation
 
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|url = http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/20/nkorea.famine/}}</ref>  Meanwhile, the people of the [[South Korea|Republic of South Korea]], created with American assitance, have thrived and prospered.  The [[Khmer Rouge]] - the Communist government of Cambodia, exterminated three million people<ref>[http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htmUnited Human Rights Council]</ref> after the U.S. backed government of Lon Nol<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=O9qFpvGmiMcC&pg=PA480&lpg=PA480&dq=lon+nol%2Bus+relations&source=bl&ots=30zoEH1nQc&sig=7eLPXqF2s6Fgth34tx7M4nmGK7M&hl=en&ei=uKqJSqedFZGKMtT7seYE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=lon%20nol%2Bus%20relations&f=falseUnited States ''Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication From the Vietnam War''], Henry A. Kissinger, Simon & Schuster, 2003.</ref> fled the country.  When the collapse of the [[South Vietnam|Republic of South Vietnam]] forced hundreds of thousands to flee the [[terror]] of the [[North Vietnam]]ese communists, an  estimated half million drowned in their desperation to escape.<ref>[http://www.searac.org/vietref.html Vietnamese Refugeees], Southesat Asian Resource Center.</ref>  In the final years of Davis's life the Soviet Union wanted to bring social change in a new Soviet Socialist Republic of Afghanistan. One million eight hundred thousand Afghani's lost their lives.<ref>http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat2.htm#Afghanistan </ref>The United States actively opposed Soviet-Communist subjugation of the Afghan people.  This is the record of the "Frankenstein monsters" the U.S. supported and the communist parties they opposed.
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|url = http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/20/nkorea.famine/}}</ref>  Meanwhile, the people of the [[South Korea|Republic of South Korea]], created with American assitance, have thrived and prospered.  The [[Khmer Rouge]] - the Communist government of Cambodia, exterminated three million people<ref>[http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htmUnited Human Rights Council]</ref> after the U.S. backed government of Lon Nol<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=O9qFpvGmiMcC&pg=PA480&lpg=PA480&dq=lon+nol%2Bus+relations&source=bl&ots=30zoEH1nQc&sig=7eLPXqF2s6Fgth34tx7M4nmGK7M&hl=en&ei=uKqJSqedFZGKMtT7seYE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=lon%20nol%2Bus%20relations&f=falseUnited States ''Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication From the Vietnam War''], Henry A. Kissinger, Simon & Schuster, 2003.</ref> fled the country.  When the collapse of the [[South Vietnam|Republic of South Vietnam]] forced hundreds of thousands to flee the [[terror]] of the [[North Vietnam]]ese communists, an  estimated half million drowned in their desperation to escape.<ref>[http://www.searac.org/vietref.html Vietnamese Refugeees], Southesat Asian Resource Center.</ref>  In the final years of Davis's life the Soviet Union wanted to bring social change in a new Soviet Socialist Republic of Afghanistan. One million eight hundred thousand Afghani's lost their lives.<ref>http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat2.htm#Afghanistan</ref> The United States actively opposed Soviet-Communist subjugation of the Afghan people.  This is the record of the "Frankenstein monsters" the U.S. supported and the communist parties they opposed.
    
==Is Davis the president's real father?==
 
==Is Davis the president's real father?==
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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=wIFW20Vb6yoC&pg=PA433&lpg=PA433&dq=Frank+Marshall+Davis&source=bl&ots=VXJk36XQ2i&sig=V44-cOJCMEdhFcZRobeDHzMIl6Y&hl=en&ei=LOxxSq-wGZOKMY3SgLEM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9 Black Voices: An Anthology of African-American Literature] By Abraham Chapman, Mentor, 1968.
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=wIFW20Vb6yoC&pg=PA433&lpg=PA433&dq=Frank+Marshall+Davis&source=bl&ots=VXJk36XQ2i&sig=V44-cOJCMEdhFcZRobeDHzMIl6Y&hl=en&ei=LOxxSq-wGZOKMY3SgLEM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9 Black Voices: An Anthology of African-American Literature] By Abraham Chapman, Mentor, 1968.
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==Also see==
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* [[Popular Front]]
 
* [[Popular Front]]
 
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jrrnkKmUzo Dreams of my Real Father: : A Story of Reds and Deception]
 
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jrrnkKmUzo Dreams of my Real Father: : A Story of Reds and Deception]
 
*[http://obamasrealfather.com/breaking_news004/ Photos of Frank's mixed race children]
 
*[http://obamasrealfather.com/breaking_news004/ Photos of Frank's mixed race children]
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