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==Elected to CPUSA Central Committee==
==Elected to CPUSA Central Committee==
In 1936 the California Communists put forward Bridges as a canddidate for the CPUSA Central Committee, and the national CPUSA convention ratified Bridges election. [[Comintern]] Archives in [[Moscow]] corroborate the events, noting in a brief biography (original in Russian) Bridges as "President of the Dockers' and Warehouse Workers' Union. He is a strong leader of the union movement and mass worker but up till now has only limited party knowledge and experience."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=44cLamYUpWYC&pg=PA296&lpg=PA296&dq=harry+bridges%2Bcomintern&source=bl&ots=n2_jTqNU4E&sig=PgTPYpC-jDbgV6wx7XuZHdXcufE&hl=en&ei=wT1uSua-FJCi8gSZ7Y2NDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 ''The Cold War: Cold War espionage and spying''] By Lori Lyn Bogle.</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=MBHSY0bCFWoC&pg=PA104&dq=Harry+Bridges%2Bklehr&lr= ''The Secret World of American Communism''], By Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov.</ref>
In 1936 the California Communists put forward Bridges as a canddidate for the CPUSA Central Committee, and the national CPUSA convention ratified Bridges election. [[Comintern]] Archives in [[Moscow]] corroborate the events, noting in a brief biography (original in Russian) Bridges as "President of the Dockers' and Warehouse Workers' Union. He is a strong leader of the union movement and mass worker but up till now has only limited party knowledge and experience."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=44cLamYUpWYC&pg=PA296&lpg=PA296&dq=harry+bridges%2Bcomintern&source=bl&ots=n2_jTqNU4E&sig=PgTPYpC-jDbgV6wx7XuZHdXcufE&hl=en&ei=wT1uSua-FJCi8gSZ7Y2NDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 ''The Cold War: Cold War espionage and spying''] By Lori Lyn Bogle.</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=MBHSY0bCFWoC&pg=PA104&dq=Harry+Bridges%2Bklehr&lr= ''The Secret World of American Communism''], By Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov.</ref> According to historian Harvey Klehr, documents from the Soviet [[Comintern]] archives reveal that:
{{cquote|Bridges was, not only a member of the Communist Party, but a member of its ruling Central Committee. The Comintern documents would indicate that he deceived John Landis in 1938, perjured himself before an immigration examiner in 1941, deceived a majority of the Supreme Court in 1945, committed perjury at his naturalization hearing in 1945, and lied once again at his 1949 trial for perjury, as well as deceiving quite a few historians.<ref>Harvey Klehr, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=8TXhy5pl2A0C The Communist Experience in America: A Political and Social History]'' (Transaction Publishers, 2009) ISBN 1412810566, p. 120</ref>}}
==Dies Committee==
==Dies Committee==