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{{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, usasurbibal.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, usasurbibal.org</ref>}}

When Robeson was put under oath by the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]] he refused to answer questions whether he had ever known [[Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]], [[Leon Josephson]], [[Louise Bransten]] or [[Gregory Kheifits]], the [[KGB]] San Fransisco ''[[Rezident]],'' by invoking the [[Fifth Amendment]].  Asked if he attended a meeting in the home of Louise Branston in 1945, Robeson invoked the Fifth Amendment.<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>

When Robeson was put under oath by the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]] he refused to answer questions whether he had ever known [[Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]], [[Leon Josephson]], [[Louise Bransten]] or [[Gregory Kheifits]], the [[KGB]] San Fransisco ''[[Rezident]],'' by invoking the [[Fifth Amendment]].  Asked if he attended a meeting in the home of Louise Branston in 1945, Robeson invoked the Fifth Amendment.<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, pp. 4495-4497.</ref>

In 1988, Robeson's membership in the party was confirmed by CPUSA General Secretary [[Gus Hall]] 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 wrote,  

In 1988, Robeson's membership in the party was confirmed by CPUSA General Secretary [[Gus Hall]] 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 wrote,