History of anti-communism in the United States

The African Blood Brotherhood (ABB) was a radical black liberation organization which developed ties to the Communist Party. The group was a propaganda organization built on the model of the secret fraternity, organized in "posts" with a centralized national organization based in New York City. The group's size has been variously estimated between 1,000 and 50,000 members at its peak. ...more on Wikipedia about "African Blood Brotherhood"

Alger Hiss ( November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was a U.S. State Department official and Secretary General to the founding charter conference of the United Nations. In 1948, Whittaker Chambers accused Hiss of being a Communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. After two trials, Hiss was convicted of perjury in 1950. Subsequent evidence of prosecutorial misconduct and post-Cold War archival evidence from US and Soviet services that tended to confirm the jury's guilty verdict continue to fuel the controversy over Hiss's conviction. Hiss continued to maintain his innocence, but ultimately failed in his life-long goal of exoneration by the U.S. Supreme Court. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alger Hiss"

The American Freedom Coalition (AFC) is a group which seeks to unite conservatives to work toward what it believes are common goals, including anticommunism. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "American Freedom Coalition"

(Army-McCarthy Hearings) These proceedings have been recorded in the documentary film Point of Order! ...more on Wikipedia about "Army-McCarthy Hearings"

California Senate Factfinding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities ( SUAC) was established by the California State Senate under authority of paragraph 12.5 (13) of the Standing Rules Committee of the State Senate. The committee was a subcommittee of of the general Research Committee of the California State Senate. SUAC was the California equivalent of the notorious House Committee on Un-American Activities. ...more on Wikipedia about "California Senate Factfinding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities"

Cedric Henning Belfrage (born November 8, 1904 - died June 21, 1990) was a socialist, author, journalist, translator and co-founder of the radical US-weekly newspaper the National Guardian. Born in London, Belfrage started his writing career as a film critic at Cambridge University, where he published his first article in Kinematograph Weekly (1924). ...more on Wikipedia about "Cedric Belfrage"

Charley Eugene Johns ( February 27, 1905 — January 23, 1990) was an American politician. Johns, a Baptist, served as the thirty-second governor of Florida from 1953 to 1955. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charley Eugene Johns"

According to GroupWatch.org (last updated September 1989), Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM) "was formed in 1972 by the late Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson ( D- Wash.) who headed the conservative wing of the Democratic Party. Jackson and his coalition favored a strong military and promoted the concept of "peace through strength." The CDM has its roots in the intellectual movement of neo-conservatism — intellectual and pragmatic, with an emphasis on democracy, anti-communism, and globalism. By the mid-1970s, the Vietnam war had cooled the ardor of the American public for the policy of interventionism, a philosophy of great importance to the CDM. The election of President James E. Carter Jr. ( D- Ga.) pushed the 'hardliners' into action and, in 1976, the CDM helped to found the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), a lobby group for containment militarism. The CPD developed and implemented a new 'Soviet Threat' campaign. The broader goal of CDM, however, was to reinstate containment militarism as the central theme of U.S. foreign policy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coalition for a Democratic Majority"

COINTELPRO is an acronym ('Counter Intelligence Program') for a program of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO operations of 1956- 1971 were broadly targeted against organizations that were (at the time) considered to have politically radical elements, ranging from those whose stated goal was the violent overthrow of the US government (such as the Weathermen) to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference and racist and segregationist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. The founding document of COINTELPRO directed FBI agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" the activities of these dissident movements and their leaders. ...more on Wikipedia about "COINTELPRO"

Communist front was originally the term used by the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), and then later by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) or the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS) to label Comintern organizations found to be under the effective control of the (CPUSA), with special emphasis on those groups most active during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The term also refers to organizations not originally Communist-controlled which after a time became so, such as the American Student Union. ...more on Wikipedia about "Communist front"

A graduate of Vassar, Elizabeth Terrill Bentley ( 1905- 1963) was studying in Italy at the University of Florence when she first became interested in fascism. In 1934 she returned to America and abandoned fascism, joining the American League Against War and Fascism and the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA). ...more on Wikipedia about "Elizabeth Bentley"

Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg ( September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) and Julius Rosenberg ( May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) were American Communists who were thrust into the world spotlight when they were tried, convicted, and executed for spying for the Soviet Union. The accuracy of these charges remains controversial, though decades later, Soviet communications decrypted by the VENONA project became publicly available, which indicate that Julius Rosenberg was actively involved in espionage, although they provided no evidence that he performed the specific acts of espionage for which he was convicted or that Ethel Rosenberg was involved. Specifically, the couple was charged with conspiracy to commit espionage and were accused of passing nuclear weapons secrets to Russian agents. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ethel and Julius Rosenberg"

Harry Dexter White ( October 1892– August 16, 1948) was an American economist and senior U.S. Department of Treasury official. He was involved in the formation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The Venona project later revealed him to be a Soviet secret agent during his time working for the US Government. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harry Dexter White"

The Hatch Act of 1939 is a United States federal law whose main provision is to prohibit federal employees ( civil servants) from engaging in partisan political activity. Named after Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico, the law was officially known as An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hatch Act of 1939"

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Henry Alfred Kissinger (born May 27, 1923 in Fürth, Germany, as Heinz Alfred Kissinger) is a Jewish-American diplomat and statesman. He served as National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State in the Nixon administration, continuing in the latter position after Gerald Ford became President in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Kissinger"

* Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive. CI Reader: American Revolution into the New MillenniumA Counterintelligence Reader Volume 3, Chapter 1: Cold War Counterintelligence. PDF file. office of the Director of Central Intelligence. Retrieved June 21, 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Soviet espionage in the United States"

The Hollow Nickel Case, refers to the method that the famous Soviet superspy Rudolph Abel (aka Vilyam Genrikovich Fisher) used to exchange information between himself and his contacts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hollow Nickel Case"

The House Committee on Un-American Activities or HUAC (or, rarely, HCUA) (1945-1975) was an investigating committee of the United States House of Representatives. It is often referred to as the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to the Committee on Internal Security. The House abolished the committee in 1975 and its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee. ...more on Wikipedia about "House Un-American Activities Committee"

The John Birch Society (JBS) is an ultra- conservative organization that was founded in 1958 to fight the threat of Communism and other un-American influences in the United States and promote the free-enterprise system. It describes itself as "a membership-based organization dedicated to restoring and preserving freedom under the United States Constitution." It states that its members come from all walks of life and are active throughout the 50 states as part of local chapters. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Birch Society"

John Earl Haynes is a historian who is a specialist in 20th Century political history in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress; he is known for his books on the subject of the American Communist and anti-Communist movements, and on Soviet espionage in America (many written jointly with Harvey Klehr). ...more on Wikipedia about "John Earl Haynes"

John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939) ( IPA ) is a career diplomat currently serving as Director of National Intelligence for the United States. Negroponte served in the United States Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997 and was the US ambassador to the United Nations from September of 2001 until June 2004 and as US ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Negroponte" shortopedia, it's as simple as that!

Joseph Milton Bernstein allegedly recruited his fellow Communist T.A. Bisson who had stopped working at the Board of Economic Warfare (BEW) and began working in the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) and in the editorial offices of Bernstein’s periodical Amerasia. Bisson passed to Bernstein copies of four documents: (a) his own report for BEW with his views on working out a plan for shipment of American troops to China; (b) a report by the Chinese embassy in Washington to its government in China; (c) a brief BEW report of April 1943 on a general evaluation of the forces of the sides on the Soviet-German front; and (d) a report by the American consul in Vladivostok. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joseph Bernstein"

Joseph Raymond McCarthy ( November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a Republican Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957. During his ten years in the Senate, McCarthy and his staff gained notoriety for making freewheeling accusations of membership in the communist party or of communist sympathies. These accusations were directed towards people in the U.S. government, particularly employees of the State Department, those whose works were carried in government libraries overseas, and some say generally anyone who opposed McCarthy and/or his methods. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joseph McCarthy"

Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs ( December 29, 1911 – January 28, 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who was convicted of surreptitiously supplying information on the British and American atomic bomb research to the USSR during, and shortly after, World War II. Fuchs was highly technically competent, being responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first fission weapons and early models of the hydrogen bomb while a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Klaus Fuchs"

The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (or LMRDA), also known as the Landrum-Griffin Act, is a United States labor law statute that regulates labor unions' internal affairs and union officials' relationships with employers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act"

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