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Communist Party of the United States of America (view source)
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Senator [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], Chairman of the Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy wrote in 1997, "President Truman was almost willfully obtuse as regards American Communism."
Senator [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], Chairman of the Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy wrote in 1997, "President Truman was almost willfully obtuse as regards American Communism."
==Harry White==
Harry Dexter White was positively identified as [[User:Nobs01/Harry Dexter White (agent Jurist)|Agent Jurist]] in an [[FBI]] memorandum dated 16 October 1950. White became involved with Soviet intelligence espionage in May of 1941. One of the most valuable assets to Soviet intelligence was his ability to infiltrate the United States [[Department of the Treasury]] with persons the [[Greg Silvermaster|Silvermaster spy ring]] wanted to have assinged there. Among the other American citizens and government employees acting as Soviet agents were [[Lud Ullman]], [[William Henry Taylor]], and [[Sonia Steinman Gold|Sonia Gold]].
On December 4, 1945, the FBI transmitted to the White House a report entitled "Soviet Espionage in the United States." The report summarized White's espionage activities. Copies of the report were sent to Attorney General [[Tom C. Clark|Tom Clark]] also. The evidence indicated a substantial spy ring operating within the Government and involving White. Given the secrecy of the [[Venona project]] materials, the president went ahead six weeks later and nominated White for appointment to head the newly created [[International Monetary Fund]], one of the chief institutional pillars of the postwar international economic order.
White was summoned before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] in August of 1948.
[[Elizabeth Bentley]] told the FBI White that had been involved in espionage activities on behalf of the [[Soviet Union]] during [[World War II]]. [[Whittaker Chambers]] earlier had testified of his association with White in the [[Communist]] underground secret apparatus up to 1938. White, recovering from a series of heart attacks, proclaimed his lifelong commitment to the principles of democracy and the ideals of President Roosevelt's New Deal. He died of a heart attack three days later and HUAC. The positive identification of Harry Dexter White as agent Jurist came two years after his death.
==[[Talk:Robert_Oppenheimer#CPUSA |Manhattan Project]]==
[[Image:Image-Lenssketch2a.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Hand sketch by [[Morton Sobell]] of the detonator for the [[atomic bomb]]]]
Oppneheimer had been an ardent [[Popular Front]] liberal and ally...gave generous contributions often deliverd to [[Isaac Folkoff]]...Oppie did not know just the secrets of some parts of the project; as director, he knew all the secrets, and just as soon as they came into being...up to the time he reported the Chevalier approach, he may have overlooked the conduct of others... a passivity motivated by personal and political ties to those persons.". Sins of ommission or neglect, it appears. (Although another theory states the Chevalier approach may not have been an attempt at recruitment, but part of the big shake up after Stalin publicly disbanded the Comintern in 1943, and agents had to be reassigned new case officers). Haynes & Klehr (paraphrased from Venona pp. 327-330)
In 1942 one of the leaders of scientific work on uranium in the USA, Professor R. Oppenheimer while being an unlisted [nglastny] member of the apparatus of Comrade Browder informed us about the beginning of work. On the request of Kheifetz, confirmed by Comrade Browder, he provided cooperation in access to research for several of our tested sources including a relative of Comrade Browder…Due to complications…it is expedient to immediately sever contacts of leaders and activist of the American Communist Party with scientists and specialists engaged in work on uranium. Sacred Secrets p. 50.
Excerpts from the testimony of CPUSA functionary, Paul Crouch, p. 1834 -1841 <ref>[http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Volume3.pdf McCarthy Hearings, Testimony of Paul Crouch], Executive Session, Vol. 3: 1834 - 1841, 15 September 1953. (PDF file, pgs. 33-41).</ref> concerning [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]]. Bracketed [ ] text is offered for purposes of clarification.
:"Chairman – Were you a top functionary of the party?
:Crouch – Yes...I was a full time organizer for 15 years [1925 -1942]
:Chairman – What were some of the positions you held...?
:Crouch – I was a representative of the Young Communist League and the Communist Party of the United States to the meetings of the executive committee of the Communist International, Young Communist International, Moscow...I was an honorary officer of the Red Army...a member of the editorial staff of the Daily Worker...a district organizer...in Virginia, New York and South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah; member of the district bureau in the Alabama district and the California district, Alameda County [CA] organizer, 1941...
:Chairman – ...and you were informed by two Justice Dept. lawyers that you would not be used because if you were...you would have to identify Robert J. Oppenheimer? [as a member of the CPUSA]
:Crouch – To that effect, yes sir.
:Chairman – Is there any doubt in your mind that Oppenheimer was a member of the Communist Party?
:Crouch – No, sir, none whatever. I met him in a closed meeting of the Communist Party in a house which was subsequently found to have been his residence at the time...and following that I met him at quite a number of Communist Party affairs in Alameda County.
:Chairman – Is there any doubt in your mind that but that Oppenheimer was under Communist party discipline at the time...?
:Crouch – No, sir, none whatever
:Chairman – And naturally they would be interested in any atomic information he had?
:Crouch – Yes, sir. Just as a matter of fact, the Communist Party might have chosen to direct him to turn over the information; they might have chosen to direct him to appoint other Communists to key positions who would in turn, turn over the information. It is a matter of record that Dr. Oppenheimer has appointed many Communists to key positions to the atomic energy program..."
Communist party members paid dues to the party. It seems this is tried to be explained away as "donations" or some sort of humanitarian gesture (imagine that, someone being a "humanitarian benefactor" of the Communist Party). In the final analysis, we have Oppenheimer paying dues, and the government suspending his security clearance. And it appears the governemnt likewise ended up being a party to the myth that "he never joined", so as to avert another scandel. [[Julius and Ethel Rosenberg]] were the public patsies, albeit, willing patsies for the larger CPUSA conspiracy, followed by the embarassing coverup by U.S government investigators.
==CIA==
After working as a journalist, [[Kim Philby]] was recruited by Valentine "Vee Vee" Vivian of the British [[Secret Intelligence Service]] (the so-called M.I.6) in 1940, later becoming part of the [[Special Operations Executive]], and coming into contact with [[Office of Strategic Services]] agents.
After [[World War II]] Philby was assigned to Istanbul, and then to the United States, where he later became first secretary at the British Embassy in Washington. While there he visited [[Arlington Hall]] for discussions about [[VENONA]] and regularly received copies of transcripts as part of his official duties. He returned to Britain in 1950 and in 1951 managed to warn Burgess and Maclean of an internal British intelligence probe, which allowed them sufficient time to escape to the Soviet Union. Suspicion of his involvement forced his retirement from intelligence and he went to work in Beirut.
However, in 1956 Philby was again in the employ of SIS as an "informant on retainer". He was given the task as second-in-command to the point man for [[Operation Musketeer]], the British, French, and Israeli plan to attack Egypt and depose [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]].
Only in 1963, with the defection of [[Anatoliy Golitsyn]], did Western intelligence unmask Philby's true allegiance; however, Philby was able to escape to the Soviet Union before he could be detained.
==Subversive Activities Control Act ==
In the "Findings and declarations of fact" of the [[United States Congress]] in passing the [[Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950]], in 50 [[U.S. Code]] Chapter 23 Subchapter IV Sec. 841, that,
In the "Findings and declarations of fact" of the [[United States Congress]] in passing the [[Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950]], in 50 [[U.S. Code]] Chapter 23 Subchapter IV Sec. 841, that,
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