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Fahy served in the [[International Brigades]] in the [[Spanish Civil War]] on behalf of the [[Socialist]] Party.
Fahy served in the [[International Brigades]] in the [[Spanish Civil War]] on behalf of the [[Socialist]] Party.
When Fahy returned to the U.S. after being wounded in the war in 1938, he publicly argued with Socialist Party leader [[Norman Thomas]] on policy differences over the Spanish Civil War, and resigned from the Party in an open letter published in the Communist ''Daily Worker''. Afterward Fahy became Vice President of the ''Hemisphere News Service'' under [[Robert Miller]], and they later hired [[Joseph Gregg]] to manage it. Gregg and Fahy had served together in Spain. The news service was absorbed into the Office of the [[Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]] (CIAA) in 1941, an agency that coordinated diplomacy, propaganda and economic warfare in Latin America.
When Fahy returned to the U.S. after being wounded in the war in 1938, he publicly argued with Socialist Party leader [[Norman Thomas]] on policy differences over the Spanish Civil War, and resigned from the Party in an open letter published in the Communist ''[[Daily Worker]]''. Afterward Fahy became Vice President of the ''Hemisphere News Service'' under [[Robert Miller]], and they later hired [[Joseph Gregg]] to manage it. Gregg and Fahy had served together in Spain. The news service was absorbed into the Office of the [[Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]] (CIAA) in 1941, an agency that coordinated diplomacy, propaganda and economic warfare in Latin America.
Fahy left the CIAA and joined the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] and held the position of Principal Intelligence Officer. In 1943 Fahy was about to become chairman of the Territorial Affairs Bureau in the Department of the Interior, Rep. [[HUAC#Dies_Committee_.281938-1944.29|Martin Dies, Jr.]] placed Fahy on a list of government employees suspected as being Communists. The Kerr Commission upon hearing Fahy's testimony agreed his involvement with the Socialist party was a "youthful misadventure" and concluded Fahy had been "loyal" and "has not been guilty of any [[subversion (political)|subversive]] activity".
Fahy left the CIAA and joined the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] and held the position of Principal Intelligence Officer. In 1943 Fahy was about to become chairman of the Territorial Affairs Bureau in the Department of the Interior, Rep. [[HUAC#Dies_Committee_.281938-1944.29|Martin Dies, Jr.]] placed Fahy on a list of government employees suspected as being Communists. The Kerr Commission upon hearing Fahy's testimony agreed his involvement with the Socialist party was a "youthful misadventure" and concluded Fahy had been "loyal" and "has not been guilty of any [[subversion (political)|subversive]] activity".