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The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held hearings in 1982 in which Edward J. O'Malley, assistant [[FBI]] director in charge of the bureau's intelligence division testified that KGB officers were instructed "to devote serious attention to the antiwar movement in the United States," and that a [[Glossary_of_espionage_terms#Fronts_and_cutouts|Communist-front group]], the U.S. Peace Council, was among the organizers of a June 1982 huge peace protest in New York City.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,953701,00.html ''The KGB: Eyes of the Kremlin''], [[Time magazine]], Feb. 14, 1983.</ref>
==Executive Committee==
The Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council included such luminaries as
*U.S. Congresswoman [[Barbara Lee]] who previously served as a volunteer for a local chapter of the [[Black Panther Party]], worked on the 1973 Oakland mayoral campaign of Panther co-founder [[Bobby Seale]], and she served as a confidential aide to the Panthers’ "Minister of Defense," [[Huey Newton]].<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=936 Baarbara Lee], Discoverthenetworks.org</ref>
*[[James Jackson]] of the National Board of the [[Communist Party USA]] who was convicted in 1956 for violations of the [[Smith Act]] conspiring to the overthrow of the government by force and violence.In the 1960s while Jackson served as CPUSA international affairs secretary and during the height of the bombing of Hanoi, Jackson traveled to North Vietnam and interviewed [[Ho Chi Minh]].<ref>[http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5834/ James E. Jackson Jr. – an Appreciation], By Jarvis Tyner and Sam Webb, Political Affairs magazine, 9-12-07.</ref>
In the 1990's [[Leslie Cagan]],<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=629 Leslie Cagan] discoverthenetworks.org</ref> a longtime pro-[[Castro]] communist, became the organizations official coordinator.
