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==Budenz on fronts==
==Budenz on fronts==
Soviet defector [[Louis Budenz]] describes how fronts then use [[List of Communist publications|communist publications]] to shape and influence public opinion.
Soviet defector [[Louis Budenz]] describes how fronts then use [[List of Communist publications|communist publications]] to shape and influence public opinion.
[[Image:Budenz louis 2.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Long time party member Louis Budenz fled the party and helped finger the treachery of [[Alger Hiss]].]]
{{Cquote|[I]t is the Communists' hidden influence on American [public] opinion that has been most devastating. I can speak with full authority on that matter, having been deeply engaged in directing and executing [[Moscow]]'s orders for molding American thinking. Repeatedly...orders went out to form this committee and that, to set up groups of citizens with patriotic names and allegedly patriotic objectives. Then these committees, headed by steeled Communists from the "branches," would roll up huge numbers of letters and telegrams from all sections of the land - with a view to influencing Congressmen and securing the passage or defeat of some particular piece of legislation.
{{Cquote|[I]t is the Communists' hidden influence on American [public] opinion that has been most devastating. I can speak with full authority on that matter, having been deeply engaged in directing and executing [[Moscow]]'s orders for molding American thinking. Repeatedly...orders went out to form this committee and that, to set up groups of citizens with patriotic names and allegedly patriotic objectives. Then these committees, headed by steeled Communists from the "branches," would roll up huge numbers of letters and telegrams from all sections of the land - with a view to influencing Congressmen and securing the passage or defeat of some particular piece of legislation.