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Earl Browder was the General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] (CPUSA) from 1932 to 1945.  During [[World War II]], when the United States and [[Soviet Union]] were allied fighting [[Nazi]] Germany, Browder publicly took the position that Communism and capitalism could coexist, which was the position the Soviet Union had taken during World War II.   

'''Earl Browder''' was the General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] (CPUSA) from 1932 to 1945.  During [[World War II]], when the United States and [[Soviet Union]] were allied fighting [[Nazi]] Germany, Browder publicly took the position that Communism and capitalism could coexist, which was the position the Soviet Union had taken during World War II.   

==Complicity in Soviet espionage and subversion==

==Complicity in Soviet espionage and subversion==

During the [[Presidential election of 1944]], on May 23 at a rally in New York's Madison Square hailing the "[[Democratic party|Democratic Coalition," Browder announced the birth of the "Communist Political

During the [[Presidential election of 1944]], on May 23 at a rally in New York's Madison Square hailing the "[[Democratic party|Democratic Coalition," Browder announced the birth of the "Communist Political

Association," which he described as "a non-party orgganization of the American working class dedicated to the traditions of Washington, Jefferson, Paine, Jackson and Lincoln, under the changed conditions of modern industrial society." <ref>Angela Calomiris, Red Masquerade: Undercover for the FBI, (Philadelphia:Lippincott, 1950), pp. 141-142.</ref>

Association," which he described as "a non-party organization of the American working class dedicated to the traditions of Washington, Jefferson, Paine, Jackson and Lincoln, under the changed conditions of modern industrial society." <ref>Angela Calomiris, Red Masquerade: Undercover for the FBI, (Philadelphia:Lippincott, 1950), pp. 141-142.</ref>

In May of 1944 Raissa Browder, Browder's wife who had entered the United States illegally, was permitted to become a citizen. According to the sworn testimony of ex-Communist Howard Rushmore, State Department and Immigration Service officials insisted upon this at the urgent requests of Secretary of State [[Cordell Hull]] and Mrs. [[Eleanor Roosevelt]]. <ref>US Senate, 81st Congress, 1st Session, Committee on the Judicary, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturealization, September 14, 1949, Part II, (GPO), p. 785.</ref>

In May of 1944 Raissa Browder, Browder's wife who had entered the United States illegally, was permitted to become a citizen. According to the sworn testimony of ex-Communist Howard Rushmore, State Department and Immigration Service officials insisted upon this at the urgent requests of Secretary of State [[Cordell Hull]] and Mrs. [[Eleanor Roosevelt]]. <ref>US Senate, 81st Congress, 1st Session, Committee on the Judicary, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization, September 14, 1949, Part II, (GPO), p. 785.</ref>

After the war Browder was expelled from CPUSA leadership when the Soviet Union policy shifted. His crime had been to follow Moscow's orders in 1941 and "disband" the party in a show of unity with the U.S. government. But the KGB thought his services worth keeping, and they succeeded in covertly financing him, by setting him up as a representative of Soviet publishers. Even then, that didn't work, as Browder was dropped after violating the Party Line again in favor of [[Titoism]]. Jay Lovestone said of Browder, "There, but for an accident of geography, walks a dead man".

After the war Browder was expelled from CPUSA leadership when the Soviet Union policy shifted. His crime had been to follow Moscow's orders in 1941 and "disband" the party in a show of unity with the U.S. government. But the KGB thought his services worth keeping, and they succeeded in covertly financing him, by setting him up as a representative of Soviet publishers. Even then, that didn't work, as Browder was dropped after violating the Party Line again in favor of [[Titoism]]. Jay Lovestone said of Browder, "There, but for an accident of geography, walks a dead man".