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Per, alias John Swift, 1922-29; Boris Reinstein, 1922;
s- Gussev, alias P. Green, alias Drapkin, 1925; Y. Simla,
alias Miller, 1926, 1927; Arthur Ewert, alias Braun, alias
Brown, alias Berger, 1927; Harry Pollitt, 1929; Philip Den-
gel, 1929; li. Mikhailov, alias George Williams, 1929, 1930;
Gerhard Eisler, alias Hans Berger, alias Edwards, 1931,
W32 and 1940-45; Carl E. Johnson, alias Seott, alias Jensen,
alias Jenson, 1921, 1922; Petersen, 1925, 1926; Marcus, alias
M. Jenks, 1928; F. Marini, alias Mario Alpi, alias Fred
Brown, 1938-48; William Rust, 1927; Willi Muenzenberg,
|934; Louis Gibarti, also known as Dobos, 1927, 1928 and
J934; Raymond Gttyot, 1938; Yusefovich; Paul Merker,
alias Wagner.
,5. From March 1, 1919, to August 21, 1935, the Commit-
'st International held seven congresses in Moscow. From
'J to 50 leaders ot" the American Communist Party attend
°- these meetings from time to time. As a rule, one or more
these leaders were chosen to be member of the executive
eenimittee of the Communist International.
'" his appearance before the House Committee on Urt-
^merican Activities, on September 29. 1939. William Z.
0s,er, present chairman of the Communist Party, USA,
estified that he had visited the Soviet Union on official
j^siness at least 10 times between 1921 and 1937. The
"nninm'st International maintained American represent-
es in Moscow between congresses.
toe-
Included among
oem were Benjamin Gitlow, Israel Amter, Max Bedacht,
0 "'rt Minor. Louis J. Engdahl, Ear] Browder, Harrison
Deorge, H. M. Wicks. William W. Weinstone, William F.
.Unne, Clarence Hathaway, John J. Ballam, J. Peters,
■wew Overgaard, John Little.
• Members of the American Communist Party were
. gned to official posts in the Communist apparatus in
scow, notably: Leonard Emil Mins, editor for the
,arx"Lenin Institute prior to 1936; Schachno Epstein,
i-oi'h "' fll(> Emes "ntil his death in 1945; Williana Bur-
gos, English language announcer for the Anglo-Ameri-
1945;
'"department of the Moscow radio until October.
A' G. Bos
-• "Osse, alias Alfred J. Brooks, informational specialist
ol .i Communis! International; Joseph Kowalski, head
Str Soviet penitentiary from 1920 to 1923; Anna Louise
7°nS, editor of the Moseote Daily News.
Sj ' Reading members of the American party were as-
■"4 '>y f'U' Communist International to posts as CI
W<,Use"tati\cs in other countries. Included in this group
Wi Earl Browder, China, 1927, Spain. 1930-39; Philip
A nl)erg, China; Harry M. Wicks. Germany and Latin
j er'ea. 1920; William F. Dunne, France and Germany;
Ce0 Zack Kornfeder, Latin America, 1932; Harrison
cl]]i"^'. Montevideo, 1920; Charles Krumbein, Great Brit-
las n China> 193()' Robert Minor. Spain, 1936-39; Nicho-
etr- ,"2enberg-Soviet Military Intelligence, Rumania,
8' 1927-39.
h;lv, Leading members of the
|„. , Published articles in official
Ii.
Communist Patty, USA,
-■■"»,, articles m otnciat organs of the Communist
ieatj ationa' an<1 later t'"' Gominform. Among these pub-
<>ice"]r, llaV(' ,"'(" The International Press Correspond-
P0r' Jle Communist International, For a Lasting Peace,
been e°P'e's Democracy. Among such contributors have
'■Arm B' Ma8U' Car] Reeve- WiDiam L. Patterson,
g^ter, Max Bedacht, Karl Browder, William Z. Foster.
Sch0 , e Marx-Lenin Institute and other Communist
s >n Moscow have given special revolutionary train-
to American Communists who
Irttr
wP,L , ] a" expenses paid
»ere |..
\irtv u'r assigned to important posts by the Communist
"' USA. Among
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those so trained were: Carl Reeve,
March, 1956
Charles Krumbein, Joseph Zack Kornfeder, William Odell
Nowell, Beatrice Siskind, Clarence Hathaway, Morris
Childs, Harry M. Wicks, Marcel Sherer, and Lovett Fort-
Whiteman.
10. The Communist Party, USA, has. since its birth,
recognized the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as
its model and leading party. In his book. Toward Soviet
America, published in 1932, William Z. Foster, presently
party chairman, has said:
The Communist Party of the United States " ° * is the
American section of the Communist International * " ° The
Communist Internationa] is a disciplined world party ° ° °
Jts leading party, by yirtuc of its great revolutionary experience, is the Russian Communist Party (pp. 258, 259).
In his History of the Communist Party of the United
Stales, published in 1952, William Z. Foster maintains
his thesis:
Lenin was also the architect and chief organizer of the
great Russian Coin list Party ° * * It is incomparably the
most highly developed political organization in the history of
mankind ° ° ° (p. 151).
In the Daily Worker of March 5. 1939, the following
cabled editorial from the Moscow Pravda is reprinted:
The Communis! Party of the Soviet Union always was
and always will be a model, an example for the Communist
parties ol -ill countries.
At its meeting on December 3-5, 1938, the National Committee of the Communist Party, USA, members were given
Ihe following instructions in regard to The History of the
Communist Parly of Ihe Socio/ Union:
It will be the task and duty ol the membership and organizations ol the Communist Party in tin- coming months to
organize and carry through the distribution of the minimum
ot 100,000 copies of this book.
Testifying before the House Committee on Un-American
Activities on Septembers, 1939, Benjamin Gitlow, Communist candidate lor Vice-President in 1924 and 1928, a former member of the Political Committee of the Communist
Party, USA, and of the executive committee of the Communist International, described the relationship between the
Russian Communist Party and the Communist International with which the CPUSA was affiliated, as follows:
Whereas the American patty • • * had to earn- out decisions of the Communist International explicitly, the Russian
party was given a privileged position. The Russian party was
permitted not only to review all decisions of the Communist
international, hut. if necessary, to take it up in its political
committee and to chance these decisions ° ° ° and that decision [of the Russian party] becomes binding upon the parties
of the Communist International.
Another important fact to hear in mind is that ° ° ° the
itiles governing the C munist Intel-national provide that
whenever a party sends representatives to the Communist
International, or delegates to the congresses of the Communist
International, those delegates cannot hi- instructed ° ° ° The
only party that has the right to instruct its delegates to the
Co itinist International and to make these instructions binding on the delegates is the Russian Communist Party ° * *
In other words, they have built the Communist International
organization in such a way that the Russians under no circumstances can lose control ol the Communist International.
The Subversive Activities Control Board has found, on
Ihe basis of the evidence, that —
All of the heads ol the Comintern that are identified in
the record have been leading members of the Communist
Party ^i da- Soviet Union. (Report, p. 11.)
Alexander Bittelman, a founder and leading member of
the national board of CPUSA, has stated, in his pamphlet
Milestones in the History of the Communist Party:
The Communist International and its model party - the
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