Communist Party USA organization
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Communist Party USA attempted_assassination_of
NAACP alleged
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“Nevertheless there is a strong movementon the part of the Communists to attempt to dominate this group…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.65
FBI spied_on
Communist Party USA documented
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“The FBI reported to the White House in 1961 that the Communist Party had attempted to take advantage of racial disturbances in the South...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.65
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee linked_to
Communist Party USA reported
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“an apparent member of the Communist Party USA was engaging in considerable activity much in a leadership capacity in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.133
FBI carried_out_attack
Communist Party USA documented
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“The Bureau personnel involved in COINTELPRO link the first formal counterintelligence program against the Communist Party USA to the Supreme Court reversal of the Smith Act convictions...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.227
Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on
Communist Party USA documented
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“The Bureau conducted five 'counterintelligence programs aimed against domestic groups the 'Communist Party USA program (1956 71)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.229
Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack
Communist Party USA documented
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“After 1960 its fragile claim for authorization of the COINTELPROs against the Communist Party USA and White Hate Groups was drawn from a series of hints and partial obscured disclosures to the Attorneys General and the White House…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.297
FBI trained
Communist Party USA documented
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“Selected informants were briefed and trained to raise controversial issues within the Party…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.298
FBI targeted_for_regime_change
Communist Party USA documented
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“The Bureau's covert action programs were aimed at five perceived threats to domestic tranquility the 'Communist Party USA program (1956 71)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.10
FBI carried_out_attack
Communist Party USA documented
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“Operation Hoodwink, from October 1966to July 1968 aimed at putting organized crime elements in competition with the Communist Party USA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.20
FBI spied_on
Communist Party USA documented
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“In the atmosphere of the Cold War the American Communist Party was viewed as a deadly threat to national security…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.21
Communist Party USA spied_on
Soviet Union documented
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“Since the Bureau had evidence that until the late 1940s the CPUSA had been 'blatantly involved in Soviet espionage…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.23
Soviet Union did_business_with
Communist Party USA reported
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“believed that the Soviets were continuing to use the Party for 'political and intelligence purposes…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.23
FBI prevented
Communist Party USA documented
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“For example during 1959 we were able to prevent the CPUSA from seizing control of the 20,000-member branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Chicago Illinois.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.72
Adviser A member_of
Communist Party USA reported
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“The report stated that one of Dr King's advisers hereinafter referred to as 'Adviser A' was a 'member of the Communist Party USA.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.94
Adviser B member_of
Communist Party USA reported
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“Within a few months FBI reports were describing another of Dr King's associates hereinafter referred to as 'Adviser B' as a 'member of the National Committee of the Communist Party.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.94
J. Edgar Hoover spied_on
Communist Party USA documented
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“with a memorandum summarizing the COMINFIL information about SCL In substance the Communist Party USA is not able to assume a role of leadership in the racial unrest at this time…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.105
John F. Kennedy linked_to
Communist Party USA documented
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“On July 17 the President announced at a news conference We have no evidence that any of the leaders of the civil rights movement in the United States are Communists…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.105
Communist Party USA supported
March on Washington documented
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“although the Party had publicly endorsed the March and had urged members to 'clandestinely participate in order to 'foster the illusion that the CP is a humanitarian group acting in the interest of the Negro.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Communist Party USA targeted_for_regime_change
Martin Luther King Jr. reported
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“The memorandum stated that 'The history of the Communist Party IT.S.A. is replete with its attempts to exploit influence and recruit the Negro.'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.114
William Sullivan proposed
Communist Party USA documented
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“Sullivan recommended on September 16 1963 'increased coverage of communist influence on the Negro.'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.114
Gus Hall headed
Communist Party USA documented
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“The presence at the March of around 200 Party members ranging from several national functionaries headed by CPUSA General Secretary Gus Hall...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.116
Communist Party USA linked_to
Soviet Union reported
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“The Soviet Union is obviously endeavoring to extend its power and influence in every direction and the history of the Communist movement in this country clearly shows that the Communist Party USA has consistently acted as the instrumentalit…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.435
Communist Party USA operated_in
United States reported
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“The Communist Party has succeeded in gaining control of or extensively infiltrating a large number of trade unions many of which operate in industries vital to the national defense...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.435
FBI invested_in
Communist Party USA documented
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“By early 1,51 the total had increased to 13,901 names as the result of an FBI decision after the outbreak of the Korean War to broaden 'the basis for inclusion in the Security Index to include all active members of the Communist Party.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.447
Communist Party USA linked_to
NAACP documented
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“The CP USA continued to consider NAACP as main Negro mass organization and desires program to win leadership among Negro organizations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.456
Communist Party USA carried_out_attack
NAACP documented
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“Various attempts have been made by the CP to infiltrate and dominate certain NAACP branches throughout the United States and its territories…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.456
Communist Party USA founded
W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America alleged
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“Only one antiwar group other than the Party itself was reported as being significantly influenced the W.E.B DuBois Clubs allegedly formed in 1964 'as a result of a mandate by the Communist Party.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.491
Communist Party USA operated_in
Washington, D.C. documented
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“Instead a recent demonstration of some 15,000 persons in Washington D.C. 'was not communist instituted dominated or controlled, although party members participated…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.491
Communist Party USA operated_in
LBJ Ranch documented
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“Party members also were 'participants in a 'vigil at the LBJ ranch…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.491
Vietnam Veterans Against the War did_business_with
Communist Party USA reported
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“This action was necessary in the light of increasing indication that the VVAW may be a target for infiltration by subversive groups such as the Communist Party USA and the Socialist Workers Party and their respective youth groups…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.540
Gus Hall headed
Communist Party USA documented
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“Mr Gus Hall (Secretary General of the Communist Party USA)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.97
Benjamin Davis headed
Communist Party USA documented
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“Benjamin Davis (National Secretary of the Communist Party USA)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.97
Soviet Union funded
Communist Party USA documented
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“The Party receives most of its finances from the Soviet Union adheres to Soviet policies explicitly and p c','ides a major ott let for Soviet propaganda…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.171
Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on
Communist Party USA documented
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“The 13 telephone surveillances are... Communist Party USA Headquarters New York City…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.276
Communist Party USA located_in
New York City documented
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“Communist Party USA Headquarters New York City…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.276
FBI spied_on
Communist Party USA documented
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“March 30 1960 memorandum from F J Baumgardner to Alan Belmont re Communist Party USA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.6
COINTELPRO targeted_for_regime_change
Communist Party USA documented
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“The five labels were the Communist Party U.S.A... COINTELPRO is the name for the effort by the Bureau to destroy people and to destroy organizations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.31
FBI targeted_for_regime_change
Communist Party USA documented
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“So in 1956 the Bureau directs a counterintelligence program against the Communist Party U.S.A. designed to capitalize on incidents involving the party and its leaders in order to foster factionalization bring the Communist Party and its lea…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.32
Domestic Intelligence Division spied_on
Communist Party USA documented
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“the Domestic Intelligence Division of the Bureau prepared a detailed memorandum concerning the efforts of the Communist Party U.S.A. to exploit the American Negro…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.65
William Sullivan proposed
Communist Party USA documented
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“We regard Martin Luther King to be the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country... We are disturbed by this and ought to be I want him to know that we will do everything that is humanly possible to develop all of the facts…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.67
Communist Party USA operated_in
Soviet Union documented
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“That is when a revolutionary group like the Communist Party has taken over control of a domestic group and the Communist Party is operated by the Soviet Union…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.113
Communist Party USA funded
Vietnam Veterans Against the War reported
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“They were going to Paris attending meetings paid for and sponsored by the Communist Party…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.145
Gus Hall headed
Communist Party USA documented
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“It started out of course with Gus Hall in 1967 who was head of the Communist Party USA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.145
Revolutionary Union split_off_from
Communist Party USA documented
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“what it finally boiled down to was a situation where it split off into the Revolutionary Union which was a Maoist group and the hardline Communist group…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.145
Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on
Communist Party USA documented
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“During its investigation of the Communist Party USA the Bureau has sought to capitalize on incidents involving the party and its leaders...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.382
Leonard Boudin member_of
Communist Party USA alleged
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“rEHASDENIED UNDER OATH INACONGRESSIONAL HEARING THAT HEISA ..iEDEH OFTEECU.(MUNIST PARTY…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.497
Progressive Labor Party split_off_from
Communist Party USA documented
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“rom :he Co menist Pert of the Jnited 3.atee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.609
Domestic Intelligence Division targeted_for_regime_change
Communist Party USA documented
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“As is the instance in our established counterintelligence program against the CommunistParty USA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.613
W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America Inc. founded
Communist Party USA documented
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“Onecase in point is that dealing with the W E D DuboisClubs of America Inc. the newnational Party youth organization…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.621