Who's Your Comrade?
Newsweek, April, 2007 by Jerry Adler
Once, the FBI would have loved to see this stuff. Actually, they probably did see it, but now everyone will get a look at the files of the Communist Party USA, which the party is donating to the Tamiment Library of New York University. The huge trove of documents, photographs--and membership lists--could settle some big historical questions. Now the truth will out: was Dwight Eisenhower, as the John Birch Society asserted, really a secret communist?
Assuredly not--although historian Harvey Klehr of Emory wonders what the files hold about people like Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist, or the labor leader Harry Bridges, who denied having been party members. Historians would like to understand how American communists coped with the disillusionments of the Nazi-Soviet...
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