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The USA CREATED the USSR starting with Bronstein/Trotsky from New York in
1917 setting out with his troop to take over the Red Army. The USA ran
USSR as a subsidiary until ca. 1990 when it decided to put a end to this
tyranny and create another. Comprende? I keep telling you the USA stands
for neither PRINCIPLE (as in a principled CONSTITUTION) nor democracy.
FWP.
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Mike Moxley wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Published in Washington, D.C.Vol. 15, No. 5 -- February 8, 1999
> www.insightmag.com
>
> American Reds Gave Away Store
> By Stephen Goode
>
> Red documents confirm members of the American Communist Party, as well
> as highly placed federal employees, took an active part in spying on
> the U.S. for the USSR.
>
> If you had asked almost any liberal American not so long ago about
> Soviet spies in the United States, like clockwork they would have
> responded with two major errors, despite considerable evidence to the
> contrary.
>
> First, they would have assured you that the American Communist Party
> -- officially called Communist Party U.S.A. -- was made up of
> idealistic do-gooder types who never for a moment spied for the Soviet
> Union or at any time offered any kind of a threat to the United
> States.
>
> Second, you similarly would have been assured that there were no
> serious Communists, or at least none of any significance, who spied
> for Moscow in any government agency or among the scientists involved
> in the Manhattan Project and at Los Alamos in the development of the
> atomic bomb. You would have been told that Sen. Joseph McCarthy was
> badly misinformed. You would have been told, too, that Alger Hiss was
> innocent, the victim of an ambitious congressman (Richard Nixon) and
> that the whole effort to uncover nonexistent Communists in Washington
> had been launched by conservative Republicans eager to undo the
> achievements of the New Deal and the liberal Roosevelt years.
>
> These widely believed errors were dealt a severe blow two decades ago
> when Allen Weinstein published his Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case,
> the book that definitively proved that Hiss was a Soviet agent.
> Support for these misconceptions further eroded when Harvey Klehr and
> John Earl Haynes in 1995 published The Secret World of American
> Communism, a collection of documents they stumbled across in the
> Soviet Union, followed in 1998 by a second document collection.
>
> Now comes a third source that should undermine forever (but won't)
> belief in the innocence of the American Communist Party and the
> absence of serious Soviet spies in Washington and elsewhere in
> America. The Haunted Wood by Weinstein and former KGB agent Alexander
> Vassiliev covers what the two authors call "Soviet espionage's golden
> age" in the United States. Those were the years between 1933, when the
> United States initiated diplomatic relations with the USSR, broken
> after the Bolshevik Revolution, and 1945, the year when American
> Soviet agent in Washington Elizabeth Bentley broke with her Soviet
> connections, named names to the FBI and threw Soviet espionage in this
> country into a tailspin from which it never fully recovered.
>
> Thanks to a 1993 agreement between the American publisher Random House
> and the Association of Retired Intelligence Officers -- an
> organization of former KGB agents --Weinstein and Vassiliev had access
> for a two-year period to KGB Stalin-era archives, access the
> association offered in exchange for payments from Random House.
>
> For the first time outsiders were allowed to read the reports filed
> from the United States by Soviet agents operative in America -- and by
> Americans who worked for the Soviet Union, turning over secret
> documents and reports to officials of a nation not technically an
> enemy at the time. Nonetheless, it was a foreign power and the home of
> a social and economic ideology deeply opposed to American ways and
> traditions and a country whose leaders had made very clear that they
> regarded the triumph of communism worldwide as an inevitability.
>
> Weinstein describes The Haunted Wood to Insight as "The Canterbury
> Tales of Soviet espionage because there are a lot of extraordinary
> stories that go well beyond what we knew before we started this book":
> how the Americans came to spy for the Soviet Union, for example; their
> personal idiosyncrasies; their sex lives; the day-to-day problems of
> spycraft.
>
> The authors take their title from W.S. Auden's poem, "September 1,
> 1939," in which the great poet described Europeans on the day when
> Nazi Germany launched its invasion of Poland and began World War II as
> "Lost in a haunted wood/Children afraid of the night/Who have never
> been happy or good." Weinstein calls the book "nonjudgmental history"
> -- it's more the kind of book that could be described as "here's what
> we can tell happened from their files. There's nothing shrill about
> it. It is the record of what went on," he says.
>
> And a whole lot did go on. Weinstein and Vassiliev write that due to
> the often very dedicated work of the American spies -- who were, it
> cannot be overemphasized, betraying their own country -- "Russian
> intelligence agencies received substantial and sometimes critical
> information (including many classified documents) concerning U.S.
> government policies on highly sensitive subjects, its confidential
> negotiating strategies and secret weapons developments, including
> essential processes involved in building the atomic bomb."
>
> Some of the Soviet Union's U.S. spies came from the "best" and most
> privileged rungs of American society. Hiss, a graduate of Johns
> Hopkins University, is an example. Vassar-educated Bentley, who
> supervised a network of spies in Washington, was the descendent of an
> old New England family.
>
> Martha Dodd, another of the highborn set of Soviet agents, was the
> daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Germany; a friend, through her
> parents, of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Dodd sent Moscow the most
> secret cables exchanged between the president and her
> ambassador-father.
>
> The Soviet archives show that Dodd literally begged to be given work
> by her Soviet bosses. The archives also show her to have been
> something of a problem: "a sexually decayed woman ready to sleep with
> any handsome man," read one of the reports on her.
>
> The archives show that the Soviets had American agents in the State
> Department (Hiss, for example), at Treasury (Nathan Gregory
> Silvermaster, among others), in the aviation section of the War
> Production Board, whose chief, Frank Perlo, was one of the most
> productive of spies, and in many other New Deal agencies (it is of
> interest that Moscow advised its American spies that New Deal
> ideologues provided good fodder for recruitment).
>
> Lauchlin Currie, a close adviser and confident of FDR, was an active
> agent for Soviet interests at the White House. In Congress, the
> Soviets had Rep. Samuel Dickstein, a New York Democrat, in their pay.
> In the Senate, the Soviets could number among their dependable spies
> Charles Kramer, who was on the staff of the Kilgore committee (headed
> by liberal Sen. Harley Kilgore). Kramer later served as a speechwriter
> for Progressive Henry Wallace when Wallace ran for president in 1948
> with Communist Party support. The most effective spies (from the
> Soviet point of view), according to the archives, worked out of
> dedication to communism. The brilliant young physicist Ted Hall, for
> example, who turned over information on the development of the atomic
> bomb from his post at Los Alamos, told the Soviet agent he worked for
> that he spied because the USSR was the one nation on which "my
> generation's fate depends."
>
> The worst, again from the Soviet perspective, were those who worked
> primarily for profit. Soviet intelligence's code name for Dickstein
> was "Crook" -- a name his Soviet supervisors thought the New York
> congressman more than deserved. Soviet archives refer to him as a
> "very cunning swindler."
>
> Soviet officials also complained about the lack of discipline among
> Americans who worked for them. Treasury's Silvermaster lived in a
> ménage à trois with his wife and another American spy for the Soviets,
> an arrangement his Soviet bosses didn't like at all. No wonder Soviet
> archives are full of complaints from USSR agents who declare the
> Americans have "no Bolshevik modesty." Interestingly, one of the most
> undisciplined of the Soviet's American crew was Julius Rosenberg,
> later executed for turning information on the U.S. atomic-bomb project
> over to the USSR, who constantly was being cautioned not to be so open
> about his beliefs.
>
> Among the most disturbing of Weinstein and Vassiliev's discoveries is
> the degree to which Soviet intelligence had penetrated America's own
> international spying outfit, the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS
> -- the precursor of the CIA. In the OSS Duncan Lee (a descendent of
> Robert E. Lee) worked for the Soviets, as did the indefatigable Donald
> Wheeler, about whom the authors say, "Presumably Wheeler turned over
> to Soviet intelligence anything of interest that came to his
> attention."
>
> Hardly surprising, but nonetheless disturbing, is an item in Soviet
> archives about Wallace. When running for president, he met with Soviet
> intelligence's station boss in Washington and asked him to support
> Wallace and other like-minded Americans who were friendly with the
> USSR to ensure that Soviet and American relations would be amicable.
> Wallace also called President Harry S. Truman a "petty" politician and
> emphasized how hard he [Wallace] was working to turn atomic-energy
> concerns to the United Nations.
>
> And behind much of the Soviet espionage in this era was Earl Browder,
> president of the Communist Party U.S.A., Soviet archives show. Without
> Browder's hard work, Soviet espionage in America would have been much
> less effective.
>
> The authors regard The Haunted Wood as far from definitive. They
> regret the closing of Russian archives to them in late 1995 when
> Russian-American relations soured. There is much more to learn from
> the KGB files, they say. In addition, U.S. and British intelligence
> archives have yet to be opened. But Weinstein and Vassiliev's book is
> a beginning and it's unlikely that their conclusion will be altered by
> anything new that turns up: "In the end, the enduring legacy of those
> Americans who sacrificed country for cause ... remains one of
> inglorious constancy to a cruel and discredited faith."
>
> Copyright © 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
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