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Upon Davis's arrival in Hawaii he met with ILWU regional director Jack Hall,[http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/09/13/news/story7.html] <ref>Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and Outsider Journalist: Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D.</ref><ref>[http://www.aim.org/aim-report/the-frank-marshall-davis-network/ ''The Frank Marshall Davis Network,''] By Andrew Walden, AIM Report, September 1, 2008.</ref> convicted under the [[Smith Act]] for conspiracy to overthrow the United States Government.  The ILWU controlled both the ''Honolulu Record''<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party,] By Andrew Walden, '''American Thinker'', July 8 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/scopeofsovietact411956unit#page/n248/mode/1up Scope of Soviet activity in the United States.] Hearing before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session - Eighty-fifth Congress, first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. (1956), pp. 2679-2681.</ref> and the ILWU Book Club.  Among the authors made available through the ILWU book club were [[Saul Alinsky]], [[Howard Fast]], [[Philip S. Foner]], [[Carl Marzani]] and [[Victor Perlo]].   
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Upon Davis's arrival in Hawaii he met with ILWU regional director Jack Hall,[http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/09/13/news/story7.html] <ref>Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and Outsider Journalist: Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D.</ref><ref>[http://www.aim.org/aim-report/the-frank-marshall-davis-network/ ''The Frank Marshall Davis Network,''] By Andrew Walden, AIM Report, September 1, 2008.</ref> convicted under the [[Smith Act]] for conspiracy to overthrow the United States Government.  The ILWU controlled both the ''Honolulu Record''<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party,] By Andrew Walden, '''American Thinker'', July 8 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/scopeofsovietact411956unit#page/n248/mode/1up Scope of Soviet activity in the United States.] Hearing before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session - Eighty-fifth Congress, first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. (1956), pp. 2679-2681.</ref> and the ILWU Book Club.  Among the authors made available through the ILWU Book Club were [[Saul Alinsky]], [[Howard Fast]], [[Philip S. Foner]], [[Carl Marzani]] and [[Victor Perlo]].   
  
 
Marzani, like Ariyoshi, was a [[KGB]] agent working in the [[Office of Strategic Services]] during [[World War II]].  Victor Perlo headed the notorious [[Perlo group]] of which the full extent of damage done to American national security may never be known.  Perlo's book, ''American Imperialism'',<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-5850(195201)28%3A1%3C132%3AAI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4&cookieSet=1 Review], Nancy Balfour, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan., 1952).</ref> offered through the ILWU Book Club, was required reading by American prisoners of war in [[North Korean]] reeducation camps.  Perlo always denied being a communist, claiming he had only been "helping in my humble way to carry out the great [[New Deal]] program under the leadership of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]" until 1981 when he was appointed to the [[CPUSA]] [[Politburo]] and openly criticized [[CPSU]] General Secretary [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] and later Russian President [[Boris Yeltsin]] for betraying [[Stalinism]].
 
Marzani, like Ariyoshi, was a [[KGB]] agent working in the [[Office of Strategic Services]] during [[World War II]].  Victor Perlo headed the notorious [[Perlo group]] of which the full extent of damage done to American national security may never be known.  Perlo's book, ''American Imperialism'',<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-5850(195201)28%3A1%3C132%3AAI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4&cookieSet=1 Review], Nancy Balfour, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan., 1952).</ref> offered through the ILWU Book Club, was required reading by American prisoners of war in [[North Korean]] reeducation camps.  Perlo always denied being a communist, claiming he had only been "helping in my humble way to carry out the great [[New Deal]] program under the leadership of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]" until 1981 when he was appointed to the [[CPUSA]] [[Politburo]] and openly criticized [[CPSU]] General Secretary [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] and later Russian President [[Boris Yeltsin]] for betraying [[Stalinism]].

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CPUSA operative
Frank Marshall Davis.

Frank Marshall Davis (1905 - 1987) was an author, liberal activist, Stalinist agent, self-admitted pedophile[1] and early mentor to U.S. President Barack Obama.[2]


The Communazi era

The Hilter-Stalin pact of 1939 presented the most troubling dilemma for American Communists. It came on the heels of the bloody anti-Trotskyite Great Purges in which many CPUSA members quit the party with apprehension and fear over what the Party had become. Those who remained, for the most part, were dedicated anti-fascists. However, with the coming of the Communazi era wherein German Chancellor Adolf Hitler became an ally of the Soviet Union against French and British Imperialism, only the most ardent Stalinists remained in the party who were willing to overlook, and justify, Stalin's murderous excesses. Among them were Frank Marshall Davis.

Davis became an articulate opponent of President Franklin Roosevelt's Lend Lease aid to Great Britain. Speaking to an audience of the communist front National Negro Congress in 1940, Davis said,

“ Negroes and the whole American people are being called upon to 'sacrifice for national defense.' Our country may soon be actively engaged in another war. Facing this crisis, the people are forced to think and to act lest, under the wave of war hysteria, they be bludgeoned into situations against their best interest.[3] ”

Roosevelt was known among communists at this time as an "imperialist war-monger"[4] and "Franklin Demagogue Roosevelt," but when Hitler turned on his ally and attacked the Soviet Union, American Communists echoed new dictates of the Kremlin by abandoning isolationism and supporting Lend Lease.[5]

Communist activities in Chicago

According to Davis he met CPUSA Central Committeeman Harry Bridges in 1945 while on the faculty of the Abraham Lincoln School[6] in Chicago, cited as a subversive organization by U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark[7] under Executive Order 10450.[8][9] Davis worked for several other organizations on the Attorney General's List of Totalitarian, Fascist, Communist, Subversive, and Other Organizations including the American Youth for Democracy, National Association for Constitutional Liberties, League of American Writers, and National Negro Congress, according to the Reports of the Commission on Subversive Activities of the Territory of Hawaii. Davis also wrote for the Chicago communist publication the Chicago Star.

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Excerpt from the 1953 and 1954 Reports of the Commission on Subversive Activities of the Territory of Hawaii.[10]

Davis, like Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, was in the FBI's security index, meaning he could be arrested and detained in the event of a national emergency.

Robeson

Davis stated singer Paul Robeson, a secret communist, was instrumental in helping Davis move to Hawaii.[11] Robeson and Davis both were active in the Civil Rights Congress[12][13] and other subversive groups.[14] Robeson invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked if he had known Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Leon Josephson, Louise Bransten or Gregory Kheifits.[15] Greg Silvermaster was the head of an extraordinarily large apparatus of Roosevelt Brain Trusters working for the KGB. Robeson also invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked if he had ever been in the home of Louise Branson. It was in the home of Branson that Bransons lover, West Coast KGB Station Chief Gregory Kheifits, met another unlisted[16] member of the communist party, J. Robert Oppenheimer head of the Manhattan project, who agreed to share information with the KGB.[17]

Communist activities in Hawaii

ILWU

Upon Davis's arrival in Hawaii he met with ILWU regional director Jack Hall,[2] [18][19] convicted under the Smith Act for conspiracy to overthrow the United States Government. The ILWU controlled both the Honolulu Record[20][21] and the ILWU Book Club. Among the authors made available through the ILWU Book Club were Saul Alinsky, Howard Fast, Philip S. Foner, Carl Marzani and Victor Perlo.

Marzani, like Ariyoshi, was a KGB agent working in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Victor Perlo headed the notorious Perlo group of which the full extent of damage done to American national security may never be known. Perlo's book, American Imperialism,[22] offered through the ILWU Book Club, was required reading by American prisoners of war in North Korean reeducation camps. Perlo always denied being a communist, claiming he had only been "helping in my humble way to carry out the great New Deal program under the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt" until 1981 when he was appointed to the CPUSA Politburo and openly criticized CPSU General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and later Russian President Boris Yeltsin for betraying Stalinism.

Hawaiian NAACP charter revoked

The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS) published a report in 1955 entitled, The Communist Party, USA — What It Is — How It Works.[23] The study intended to differentiate the CPUSA from "bona fide" political parties after the Subversive Activities Control Act proscribed into law the following:

“ The Congress finds and declares that the Communist Party of the United States, although purportedly a political party, is in fact an instrumentality of a conspiracy to overthrow the Government of the United States...the policies and programs of the Communist Party are secretly prescribed for it by the foreign leaders...members of the Communist Party are recruited for indoctrination with respect to its objectives and methods, and are organized, instructed, and disciplined to carry into action slavishly the assignments given them....Its role as the agency of a hostile foreign power renders its existence a clear present and continuing danger to the security of the United States. It is the means whereby individuals are seduced into the service of the world Communist movement, trained to do its bidding, and directed and controlled in the conspiratorial performance of their revolutionary services.[24] ”

Without going into detailed analysis of Communist activity in the labor movement, among African-Americans, women, youth, foreign language groups, or in front organizations the SISS report described a fundamental CPUSA strategy of infiltration and subversion using divisiveness:

“ it thrives upon promoting clashes: Between employer and employee, landlord and tenant, white and Negro, native-born and foreigner, Catholic, Protestant and Jew; between the American people and their Government, and within every non-Communist organization. ”

Davis moved to Hawaii in 1948 and records in his memoir,

“ I had also talked with Paul Robeson who the previous year had appeared there in a series of concerts sponsored by the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU), the most powerful labor organization in the territory.... I also wrote to Harry Bridges, head of the ILWU, whom I had met at Lincoln School. He suggested I get in touch with Koji Ariyoshi, editor of the Honolulu Record, a newspaper that was generally similar to the Chicago Star."[25] ”

Robeson, Bridges and Ariyoshi were all Communist party operatives. Davis authored a regular weekly column in the Honolulu Record entitled "Frankly Speaking." When Davis' column first appeared in May 1949, the Record boasted he was a member of the national executive board of the Civil Rights Congress, cited as a Communist subversive organization by Truman Attorney General Tom Clark. Under the sponsorship of the Civil Rights Congress, Davis signed a statement in defense of Gerhart Eisler, the notorious Comintern agent who escaped jail by fleeing to East Germany.

Edward Berman of the local chapter of the NAACP sent a letter in 1949 to the acting National Secretary of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins, stating

“ I was at one of the election meetings at which one Frank Marshall Davis, formerly of Chicago (and formerly editor of the Chicago Communist paper, the Star) suddenly appeared on the scene to propagandize the membership about our 'racial problems' in Hawaii. He had just sneaked in here on a boat, and presto, was an 'expert' on racial problems in Hawaii. Comrade Davis was supported by others who had recently 'sneaked' into the organization with the avowed intent and purpose of converting it into a front for the Stalinist line….

They create a mythical racial problem here. They agitate with the same fervor that the Communist press does on the mainland. The result is discord and distrust, not unity.

…Already, scores of Negro members were frightened away from these meetings because of the influx of this element. Only by a reorganization with a policy that will check this infiltration, can we hope to get former members back into a local NAACP branch. We are going to have to have that authority over here―otherwise you’ll have a branch exclusively composed of yelping Stalinists and their dupes―characters who are more concerned about the speedy assassination of Tito than they are about the advancement of the colored people of these United States."[26]

”

The national NAACP acted by revoking the local Hawaiian chapter of the NAACP's charter to prevent Communists from taking over the organization.

International affairs

In 1963 FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover made a hand written note in the file authorizing a direct approach to Davis who had been under investigation for 19 years and had never been interviewed.[27] During the interview Davis claimed he was motivated by social policy and not interested in international politics[28] yet the record shows otherwise. Davis's column of January 24 1957 for example says,

“ I received a copy of the National Guardian on Dec. 31 In it was an article headed 'The Negro Press on Hungary and Egypt--Do hearts bleed for white skins only?' and containing a summary of the opinion formed in assorted Negro newspapers...Because I think the opinions of the press serving 18,000,000 colored Americans are of importance to the people of Hawaii, I am reprinting the Guardian summary:...[29] ”

This was shortly after the violent and bloody anti-communist Hungarian uprising in 1956. The Guardian was founded by KGB operatives Cedric Belfrage and James Aronson. During the Korean War, Guardian carried false reports on American use of germ warfare which many American leftists still charge America with to this day.[30][31] Documents from Russian Archives prove, more than four decades after the fact, the United States was the victim of a disinformation campaign.[32] The Guardian correspondent who reported the disinformation actually assisted North Korean interogators in extracting bogus confessions from American prisoners of war.[33]

Further reading

Bibliography

See also

References

  1. ↑ Frank Marshall Davis, alleged Communist, was early influence on Barack Obama, By Toby Harnden, Telegraph.uk, 22 Aug 2008.
  2. ↑ Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, By Barack Obama, Random House, 2007, pp. 89-91, 96-98, 220.
  3. ↑ Illinois Conference of the National Negro Congress, November 9th - 10th, 1940, cited in Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection by Cliff kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, p.15-16, 38, 42.
  4. ↑ Report on Civil Rights Congress as a communist front organization. Investigation of un-American activities in the United States, Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. September 2, 1947. p.3.
  5. ↑ The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, Washington, DC, Regnery, 2000.
  6. ↑ Frank Marshall Davis, Livin' the Blues, Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1992, p 311. [1]
  7. ↑ Guide to subversive organizations and publications (and appendix) (1951) United States. Congress. House Committee on Un-American Activities. Washington U.S. Govt. Print. Office. "1. Cited as an adjunct of the Communist Party. (Attorney General Tom Clark, letter to Loyalty Review Board, released December 4, 1947.) 2. Successor of the Workers School as a "Communist educational medium" in Chicago. (Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Report, March 29, 1944, V- 82.) 3. Cited as a "Communist institution." (California Committee on Un-American Activities, Report, 1948, pp. 95 and 120.)"
  8. ↑ FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, Summary file edited by Cliff Kincaid, p. 11, 14, 16, 17.
  9. ↑ Executive Order 10450--Security requirements for Government employment.
  10. ↑ Scope of Soviet Activities in the United States. Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and other Internal Security Laws of the Committee of the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress Second Session, Part 41A, Appendix II, pp. 2696-2699.
  11. ↑ Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and Outsider Journalist: Social Movements in Hawai`i, by: Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D.
  12. ↑ Report on Civil Rights Congress as a communist front organization. Investigation of un-American activities in the United States, Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. September 2, 1947. pp. 1-13, 19, 21-22.
  13. ↑ Honolulu Record, May 12 1949, v.1 no.41. p.3.
  14. ↑ Both were active in the National Negro Congress; the 1954 Reports of the Commission on Subversive Activities of the Territory of Hawaii, pp.3-4 states, Communist Reactions to 1953 Report. The Communist Honolulu Record devoted an inside-page article to the 1953 Report and its columnist, Frank Marshall Davis, on August 6, 1953 wrote about the commission and the report. In his column Davis was guilty of the usual Communist editorial dishonesty. The following is copied from his column, and purports to be a quotation from the 1953 report : "Nor has Davis confined his inflammatory racial propaganda to the columns of the Honolulu Record alone. His story, Hawaii's Plain People Fight White Supremacy, appeared in the November 1951 issue of Freedom, a tabloid publication emanating from New York City. * * * Chairman of the editorial board of Freedom is Paul Robeson." However, the commission actually reported : "Nor has Davis confined his inflammatory racial propaganda to the columns of the Honolulu Record alone. His story, Hawaii's Plain People Fight White Supremacy, appeared in the November 1951 issue of Freedom, a tabloid publication emanating from New York City, whose treatment of interracial problems strikingly conforms to Communist Party policy. The chairman of the editorial board is Paul Robeson, an identified member of the Communist Party."
  15. ↑ 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, pp. 4495-4497.
  16. ↑ Memorandum Boris Merkulov (USSR People’s Commissar for State Security) to Lavrenty Beria (USSR People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs), 2 October 1944.
  17. ↑ Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schecter, Leona P. Schecter, Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness -- A Soviet Spymaster, Little Brown, Boston (1994), pp. 190, 193.
  18. ↑ Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and Outsider Journalist: Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D.
  19. ↑ The Frank Marshall Davis Network, By Andrew Walden, AIM Report, September 1, 2008.
  20. ↑ What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party, By Andrew Walden, 'American Thinker, July 8 2008.
  21. ↑ Scope of Soviet activity in the United States. Hearing before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session - Eighty-fifth Congress, first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. (1956), pp. 2679-2681.
  22. ↑ Review, Nancy Balfour, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan., 1952).
  23. ↑ The Communist Party, USA — What It Is — How It Works, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act, United States Senate, 84th Congress 1st Session, December 21 1955, GPO, Washington D.C., pp. v., 15.
  24. ↑ Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, U.S. Code Title 50 Chapter 23 Subchapter IV Sec. 841.
  25. ↑ Frank Marshall Davis, Livin' the Blues, Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1992, p 311.
  26. ↑ House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, Hearings Regarding Communist Activities in the Teritory of Hawaii—Part 3, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1950, p 2067-9, quoted in Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection, Herbert Romerstein, usasurvival.org pp. 16-17, 31-34.
  27. ↑ FBI file Frank Marshall Davis v.2 p.49 pdf.
  28. ↑ FBI file Frank Marshall Davis v.2 p.58 pdf.
  29. ↑ FBI file Frank Marshall Davis v.1 p.50-51 pdf
  30. ↑ Cold War Revelations and "Progressive" Holocaust Denial, Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine.com October 28, 1999.
  31. ↑ Rethinking Nogun-ri Massacre on the 50th Anniversary of the Korean War, Sung Yong Park, The Interenational Action Center, New York. The Interenational Action Center was founded by Ramsey Clark.
  32. ↑ Bruce B. Auster, Unmasking An Old Lie: A Korean War Charge Is Exposed As a Hoax, U. S. News & World Report (16 November 1998), p. 52.
  33. ↑ Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America,John George and Laird Wilcox, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1992, Chapter 9, Guardian (NY), pgs. 125-131. (ISBN 0-87975-680-2).

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