| − | The '''Communist Party of the United States of America''' ('''CPUSA''') is one of several [[Marxist-Leninist]] groups in the [[United States]]. | + | The '''Communist Party of the United States of America''' ('''CPUSA''') is one of several [[Marxist-Leninist]] groups in the [[United States]]. It nominated a candidate for president from 1924 through 1984, sometimes with funding from the communist [[Soviet Union]]. Beginning in 1988, it has urged voters to support the [[Democratic Party]].<ref>http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/government/elections/president/timeline.htm</ref> |
| | The Soviet Union conducted an extensive and continuous espionage attack against the security institutions—political, economic, and scientific—of the United States from the time of Washington's diplomatic recognition of the USSR by the Roosevelt Administration. <ref>Felix Wittmer, [http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Claxton Printers, 1953, p. 15. </ref> That attack continued not only during the time [[Molotov-Ribbentrop pact|the USSR was allied with Nazi Germany from 1939]] until it was [[Operation Barbarossa|attacked by Germany in 1941]], but during the war years 1942–1945. The main thrust was to give impetus to the Soviet drive for [[World Revolution]]; to increase the political power of CPUSA, and to strengthen the Soviet economy by economic and scientific espionage. But principally it sought to weaken and [[subversion (political)|subvert]] the government of its "main enemy," the United States. A major instrument of Moscow's policy was the CPUSA. Many of America's [[liberal]] political elite still refuse to acknowledge this, despite the evidence. <ref>Earl M. Hyde, ''Bernard Schuster and Joseph Katz: KGB Master Spies in the United States'', International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Volume 12, Issue 1 March 1999. </ref> Members of the liberal elite have claimed over the years that the CPUSA has never been connected with Soviet espionage despite a solid body of evidence to the contrary. For example, Victor Navasky, then editor of the [[leftist]] | | The Soviet Union conducted an extensive and continuous espionage attack against the security institutions—political, economic, and scientific—of the United States from the time of Washington's diplomatic recognition of the USSR by the Roosevelt Administration. <ref>Felix Wittmer, [http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Claxton Printers, 1953, p. 15. </ref> That attack continued not only during the time [[Molotov-Ribbentrop pact|the USSR was allied with Nazi Germany from 1939]] until it was [[Operation Barbarossa|attacked by Germany in 1941]], but during the war years 1942–1945. The main thrust was to give impetus to the Soviet drive for [[World Revolution]]; to increase the political power of CPUSA, and to strengthen the Soviet economy by economic and scientific espionage. But principally it sought to weaken and [[subversion (political)|subvert]] the government of its "main enemy," the United States. A major instrument of Moscow's policy was the CPUSA. Many of America's [[liberal]] political elite still refuse to acknowledge this, despite the evidence. <ref>Earl M. Hyde, ''Bernard Schuster and Joseph Katz: KGB Master Spies in the United States'', International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Volume 12, Issue 1 March 1999. </ref> Members of the liberal elite have claimed over the years that the CPUSA has never been connected with Soviet espionage despite a solid body of evidence to the contrary. For example, Victor Navasky, then editor of the [[leftist]] |