J. Edgar Hoover
on the
Communist Party, USA

This Cold War article about the American Communist Party (CPUSA), penned in 1950 by F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover (1895 – 1972) was published for two reasons:

• To alert the readers that such subversive groups exist and that they are operated by their fellow Americans who take orders from Joseph Stalin –

• and that the F.B.I. is on the job and has thoroughly infiltrated their ranks and watches them very closely.

The column is a good read for all of you out there who enjoy the cloak and dagger type of plot lines; I was surprised to learn that this group had so many secrets to hide – seeing that their problems in the arena of public relations at that time were so overwhelming, one has to wonder how they were actually able to tend to their assignments in espionage, sabotage, propaganda and all other assorted shenanigans Moscow expected of them.

Click here if you would like to read what the CPUSA was up to during the Great Depression.

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In time, J. Edgar Hoover’s halo began to tarnish…