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Manning Johnson, a CPUSA member, identified Robeson as a fellow member of the Communist Party in testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1949. Johnson revealed that:

Manning Johnson, a CPUSA member, identified Robeson as a fellow member of the Communist Party in testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1949. Johnson revealed that:

{{Cquote| ...we were told, under threat of expulsion, never to reveal that Paul Robeson was a member of the Communist Party because Paul Robeson's assignment was highly confidential and secret...Paul's assignment was to work among the intellectuals, the professionals and artists that the party was seeking to penetrate and influence along communist lines. As long as Paul Robeson's identify with the party was kept secret, so long would his work among these groups be effective and serve the best interests of the party...<ref>Manning Johnson testified July 14, 1949.</ref><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, p. 4497.</ref><ref>''The Media Falsify Robeson's Record,'' AIM Report, March 1976, pages 5, 6., quoted in [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/chicago-obama.pdf ''Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection''], by Herbert Romerstein, usasurvival.org</ref>}}

{{Cquote| ...we were told, under threat of expulsion, never to reveal that Paul Robeson was a member of the Communist Party because Paul Robeson's assignment was highly confidential and secret...Paul's assignment was to work among the intellectuals, the professionals and artists that the party was seeking to penetrate and influence along communist lines. As long as Paul Robeson's identify with the party was kept secret, so long would his work among these groups be effective and serve the best interests of the party...<ref>Manning Johnson testified July 14, 1949.</ref><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, p. 4497.</ref><ref>''The Media Falsify Robeson's Record,'' AIM Report, March 1976, pages 5, 6., quoted in [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/chicago-obama.pdf ''Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection''], by Herbert Romerstein, usasurvival.org</ref>}}

CPUSA General Secretary [[Gus Hall]] corroborated Manning's testimony in a pamphlet entitled ''Paul Robeson: An American Communist.'' [http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Robeson-Communist-Gus-Hall/dp/B0006QXVGS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248300323&sr=8-1] Hall identified Robeson as a secret member of the CPUSA but, wrote Hall, "The U.S. Ruling Class and its corporate-ruled government made it impossible for Paul to declare his commitment to the Communist Party and a socialist USA."</ref><ref>Cliff Kincaid, [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/chicago-obama.pdf ''Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection''], usasurvival.org</ref> According to [http://wernercohn.com/ Werner Cohn], professor emeritus of sociology at the University of British Columbia,<ref>[http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/u_arch/cohn.html#bio Biographical Sketch], Werner Cohn fonds, University of British Columbia Archives</ref> Hall wrote:

CPUSA General Secretary [[Gus Hall]] corroborated Manning's testimony in a pamphlet entitled ''Paul Robeson: An American Communist.'' [http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Robeson-Communist-Gus-Hall/dp/B0006QXVGS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248300323&sr=8-1] Hall identified Robeson as a secret member of the CPUSA but, wrote Hall, "The U.S. Ruling Class and its corporate-ruled government made it impossible for Paul to declare his commitment to the Communist Party and a socialist USA."<ref>Cliff Kincaid, [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/chicago-obama.pdf ''Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection''], usasurvival.org</ref> According to [http://wernercohn.com/ Werner Cohn], professor emeritus of sociology at the University of British Columbia,<ref>[http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/u_arch/cohn.html#bio Biographical Sketch], Werner Cohn fonds, University of British Columbia Archives</ref> Hall wrote:

{{Cquote|My own most precious moments with Paul were when I met with him to accept his dues and renew his yearly membership in the CPUSA. I and other Communist leaders like Henry Winston, the Party's late, beloved national chair, met with Paul to brief him on politics and Party policies and to discuss his work and struggles."<ref>Werner Cohn, "[ http://www.amazon.com/review/R323I3TZ2LOB18/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R323I3TZ2LOB18 Inadequate]," Review of ''Comrades!: A History of World Communism'' by Robert Service, Amazon.com</ref>"}}

{{Cquote|My own most precious moments with Paul were when I met with him to accept his dues and renew his yearly membership in the CPUSA. I and other Communist leaders like Henry Winston, the Party's late, beloved national chair, met with Paul to brief him on politics and Party policies and to discuss his work and struggles."<ref>Werner Cohn, "[ http://www.amazon.com/review/R323I3TZ2LOB18/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R323I3TZ2LOB18 Inadequate]," Review of ''Comrades!: A History of World Communism'' by Robert Service, Amazon.com</ref>"}}

Robeson, notes ex-Communist [[David Horowitz]], "received a Stalin Peace Prize from the dictator himself."<ref>Horowitz, David, "Moment of Truth (for the anti-American Left)", ''Jewish World Review'', March 31, 2003''</ref> In accepting the Prize, Robeson stated, "We know how [[Truman]] betrayed the American people in their hopes for peace, how he betrayed the Negro people in their thirst for equal rights, how he tore up the [[Bill of Rights]] and subjected the whole American people to a reign of FBI-[[terror]]ization."<ref>[http://www.mltranslations.org/Miscellaneous/RobesonSPP.htm Thoughts on Winning the Stalin Peace Prize], Paul Robeson, January 1953.</ref>

Robeson, notes ex-Communist [[David Horowitz]], "received a Stalin Peace Prize from the dictator himself."<ref>Horowitz, David, "Moment of Truth (for the anti-American Left)", ''Jewish World Review'', March 31, 2003''</ref> In accepting the Prize, Robeson stated, "We know how [[Truman]] betrayed the American people in their hopes for peace, how he betrayed the Negro people in their thirst for equal rights, how he tore up the [[Bill of Rights]] and subjected the whole American people to a reign of FBI-[[terror]]ization."<ref>[http://www.mltranslations.org/Miscellaneous/RobesonSPP.htm Thoughts on Winning the Stalin Peace Prize], Paul Robeson, January 1953.</ref>