Did anyone ever have any doubt that during its heyday and throughout the Cold War, the American Communist Party, or C.P.U.S.A., was anything but a vehicle controlled lock, stock and barrel by the Soviet Union and its Politburo? Now, the FBI has released the first in a long series of previously classified material—-that of the so-called Operation Solo effort.
SOLO referred to the secret recruitment of two bitter ex-Communists, Morris and Jack Childs. The Bureau urged them to rejoin the Party, and work within its ranks to feed information to them. Before long, Morris Childs became what in effect was the CP’s Secretary of State, traveling around the world to meet top Communist leaders, including those of both the Soviet Union and China. From his perch, he passed on to the U.S. Government all he learned first hand from Moscow’s top leaders.
You can find all of the releases here. They contain many gems. One of my favorites concerns the orders from one of the chiefs of the Soviet Politburo, Mikhail Suslov, who tells the comrades that the Party has to give up its thesis that American blacks composed a separate nation and had to fight for the right of self-determination for its majority in the black belt of the South. Suslov, who under Brezhnev would become the chief ideologue of Moscow, told them they cannot make policy based on 30 year old Comintern directives, at a time when American blacks lived in urban areas and were fighting for civil rights and desegregation. He gave them the go ahead to get involved in the freedom movement that was then beginning to emerge, and join its fight in order to try and give it direction.
Read the releases for yourself. You will find more proof that in the old Cold War days, it was the anti-Communists who were right, and not their legion of apologists.





Which document is being referenced as a favorite?
But, Ron…does this give us any clue as to how they are operating today?
I think it does. The class and race warfare, the pushing of the “Workers” (union) thugs to the head of the line, the attempt to tear down America’s military presence…all the signs and signals from 1957…apply in an eerily similar way to precisely what is going on at this very moment.
The infiltration into the American black community, the unions, and the Democratic Party, the media, universities and Hollywood has been deep, wide and strong.
Those intent on getting rid of capitalism, intent on “redistribution” and “the struggle”…are hardly a hair’s breadth different today…except…they are hiding in plain sight…and have seized one of the two major parties…AND nearly all of our mass communications and virtually all of our pop culture.
Ron – that’s not the half of it. Consider John O’Sullivan’s the President, the Pope and the Prime Minister.
http://www.amazon.com/President-Pope-Prime-Minister-Changed/dp/1596980168
It catalogs the infiltration of the not just the CPUSA but the Left in general during the Pershing missle debates from 1980-1984. The “Peace” movement in Western Europe, and to a lesser extent, in the USA, was the offspring of a calculated KGB effort to stop missle deployment. The Soviets designed and funded the Euro-left during this time. It more disturbing than their support of self-branded commies in the USA.
Back in the 1960s, I was a part of “the movement”. I remember my mother, who lived most of her life in western and northern Canada, said she was sure that “the movement” was financially backed by.. someone. She never went so far as to think of the USSR. But. My mother was an extremely intelligent woman.
She also noted, during the war in Biafra, that those photos of starving people never included a starving man. The starving people were women and children.
It seems to me that once you understand the connection it’s easy to see how the rhetoric of “anti-racism” is taken almost verbatim from Marxism. Just substitute “whites” or “whiteness” for “bourgeoisie” and you’ve got it in a nutshell. Class warfare becomes race warfare, which is exactly what Marxists were hoping for and worked to incite. They still are…
I think it depends on what you think the anti-communists were “right” about. Right about communism being a threat and penetrating our institutions – yes. However, I think it’s important to remember that a lot of people’s civil rights were violated during these investigations. There were a also unintended consequences, one of which was probably the famous Hollywood blacklist. The government (as far as we know) didn’t force the movie studios to distance themselves from real or suspected communists. They did that on their own. It was a sort of “Richard Jewell effect” – the government says you’re a “person of interest” and suddenly people start avoiding you.
Anyone who claims there were no real communists in America or that American communists weren’t a threat is being disingenuous. There’s ample proof that the FBI knew what it was talking about. The fact that it was wrong about some people doesn’t mean it was wrong about all of them. The main controversy isn’t whether the government was making something out of nothing. It was whether some of the actions of the government took in response to the threat were excessive or unconstitutional. I guess the answer to that question depends on how you think the government should respond to threats in general. Many civil rights are restricted or suspended during wartime and other emergencies. Did the communist threat rise to that level, or was it something that could be handled strictly within America’s normal legal framework? Hard to say…
And yet, the greatest trick played was this infernal obsession with communism, a diversion. All the while feting and roundly welcoming the more terrible beast into the inner sanctums, the Socialist. As long as there is private property the cooing went a bit of socialist remodeling is fine. Even when Britain was brought to her knees by government control of important industries, they simply divested but continued the usurpation of individual freedoms, with the full faith and assistance of the anti-communists. It is understandable, socialistic tendencies prevail in society and is the basis of Christianity. But so much was surrendered, with a wave of the politician’s hand to the much needed debate over the sacrifice of individual freedom. No discussion of the futility to attempt to make men better by removing his need to work, to save, to forego immediate pleasure for future benefit by plundering those who have those traits. Bit by bit, the socialist agenda crept through free society until now, most can’t even envision a world without socialist control. And stand terrified as the inevitable end to plunder rushes toward us: