by Paul Kengor
Moreover, I would like to acknowledge Mona Charen, whom I met at Grove City College several years ago when I helped bring her to campus to discuss her book Useful Idiots, a more colorful synonym for the subject of this book. Though Peter Schweizer and I were motivated to pursue this project by the fascinating and historically significant material flowing from new archives, I'm sure that Mona's good work planted a seed in my mind prior to the opening of these archives. (Her work was very different from this one, in both style and sources, most distinctly in that it was not based on archives, which mostly were not available at the time she wrote her book.) I thank Mona for her book, which hopefully might serve with this one as a one-two punch on a subject that demands many more follow-up works; after all, many dupes and useful idiots have managed to slip through the cracks of history.
Finally, I thank my parents and brother and sister, who have always been there, and my beautiful wife, Susan, and our five beautiful children. I've been blessed beyond any reasonable expectation and truly deserve none of what I have. And for that, I thank the God who created me and continues to put up with me, ever dealing with my vices and infusing me with spiritual graces to try to squeeze out the rare inkling of virtue.
Paul Kengor
Grove City, Pennsylvania
July 1, 2010
INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Abrams, Elliott, 376
Abt, John J., 123–24, 295
Across the Pacific, 494
Action in the North Atlantic, 494, 495
Adams, Josephine, 129–33
Addams, Jane, 83, 102, 282
Adelman, Ken, 413
Adler, Larry, 228
Akhmerov, Iskhak, 124–25
Albright, Madeleine, 368, 388
Alexander I (czar), 67
Al-Hanooti, Muthanna, 438
All My Sons, 188
Allen, Richard V., 361, 366, 371–72
al-Qaeda, 14, 420, 426, 430, 439
Alsop, Joseph, 318
Amerasia, 146
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 9–10, 62–64, 69, 131, 188, 272, 306–8
American Communist Party. See also Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
in Chicago, 293, 336
and comrades, 44–46, 238, 260, 267
and dupes, 9–38
fliers for, 44, 45
in Hawaii, 247–49, 252
and “liberal” professors, 61–64, 63
and press, 377
American Historical Review, The, 443
American “oppression,” 255–58, 257
American Peace Mobilization
as Communist front, 8, 139–58, 142–43, 148, 152–54, 156–57, 183, 288
and Davis, 249–52, 251, 261–62
and Lawson, 226–27
American People's Mobilization, 155–59
American press, 352–53, 368–78, 388–89, 394–95. See also specific media
American troops
in Iraq, 14, 427–30, 433, 438
in Korea, 238
in Vietnam, 5, 14, 313, 319–23, 337, 352–56
Ames, Aldrich, 125
Andropov, Yuri, 350, 357, 394, 407–11, 430, 440, 497
antiwar movement
and CPUSA, 137, 295, 296
and North Korea, 433–36
and peace mobilization, 141, 150
and Vietnam War, 5, 284–314, 320–25, 332–35, 350–55
Applebaum, Anne, 9
Aptheker, Bettina, 309–13, 314
Aptheker, Herbert, 306, 310–11, 446, 477
Arbatov, Georgi, 383, 386–88, 395
Ariyoshi, Koji, 253
Arnold, Edward, 196
Ashbrook, John, 285
Atkinson, Brooks, 190
atomic bomb, 126, 162–63, 178, 192, 268–71
Ayers, Bill
and bombings, 421–22, 458–59, 463
and Chavez, 475
and Columbia University, 422, 432, 454
and CPUSA, 464–65
and Klonsky, 471–72
and MDS, 470
and Obama, 2, 348, 449, 454–65, 461, 462, 471–72, 474, 477
research on, 9
teaching courses, 474
and terrorist attacks, 420–21
and Vietnam War, 356
and Weathermen, 325–49
Ayers, Thomas, 329
Bacall, Lauren, 195, 215–16, 218, 227, 229
“Baghdad Jim,” 435–39
Baker, Jim, 416
Baker, Rudy, 151
Baker, Scott, 446
Bakshian, Aram, 392
Baldwin, Roger, 9–10, 62–64, 308
Ball, Lucille, 194
Bancroft, Frank, 145
barbarians, 40, 428–30
Barron, John, 283
Bastiat, Frederic, 386
Battleship Potemkin, The, 495
Baughn, Linda, 311
Beck, Glenn, 444, 473
Bedacht, Max, 482
Beilenson, Laurence, 386
Belyaev, A. I., 125
Bening, Annette, 436
Benny, Jack, 378
Benson, Ezra Taft, 385
Beria, Lavrenti, 170, 220
Berle, Adolf, 177
Berlin Blockade, 236, 272
Berlin speeches, 273–74
Berlin Wall, 361, 388, 418, 441, 466
Berman, Edward, 254, 450
Bernstein, Leonard, 217
Berzin, Jan, 23, 26
Bessie, Alvah, 219–20, 226, 228, 490, 493
Bessmertnykh, Alexander, 402
Best of Broadway, 490
Bethune, Norman, 302
Bevin, Ernest, 235
Beyond Good and Evil, 81
Bezmenov, Yuri, 405
Bialer, Seweryn, 418
Biberman, Herbert, 226, 493
Biddle, Francis, 169
Billingsley, Kenneth Lloyd, 183, 196
bin Laden, Osama, 13, 420, 421
Black Book of Communism, The, 11–12
Black, Conrad, 168–69, 175, 177, 453
Black Panthers, 286–87, 320, 322
blacklist, 202, 211, 432. See also McCarthyism
Blair, Betsy, 195
Blonskii, Pavel P., 105–6
Bloomfield, Sidney, 108
Blue Book of the John Birch Society, The, 383
“Bogart: Anti-Fascist Film Hero,” 494
Bogart, Belmont, 486, 487
Bogart, Humphrey, 195, 215–16, 218, 225–29, 239, 327, 481–96
Bogart, John, 485–86
Bogart, Maud, 487
Bogart, Stephen, 228
Bohlen, Charles “Chip,” 180, 181
Boland, Edward, 368
“Bolivarian Revolution,” 475
Bollinger, Lee, 432
Bolshakov, Georgi, 130
Bolshevik Revolution, 1, 3, 16, 58, 89, 97–98, 139, 181, 391
Bolshevism, 18, 28, 31, 37–43, 48, 59–60, 94, 100, 211, 281, 385
bombings, 339–45, 420–21, 425, 458–59, 463. See also terrorism
Bond, Julian, 312
Bonior, David, 436, 438
Booth, Paul, 298
Borodin, Mikhail, 90
Boudin, Chesa, 347, 475
Boudin, Kathy, 328–31, 336–42, 346–48, 356, 421, 475
Boudin, Leonard, 330
Boudin, Louis, 330
Bowie, Walter Russell, 265
Boxer, Barbara, 404
Branaman, Jacqueline, 486
Braudy, Susan, 331
brave new world, 53–54, 95–96, 332. See also new world
Brecht, Bertolt, 184, 188
Brent, Jonathan, 9
Brezhnev Doctrine, 358–59
Brezhnev, Leonid, 283, 358–65, 373, 396
Brickman, William, 88, 90
Bridge, The, 454
Bridges, Harry, 252–53, 259, 266, 272, 286, 491
Bright, John, 196
Brinks robbery, 346–47
Brooks, William, 87, 88
Browder, Earl, 10, 15, 126–34, 140, 151, 230, 283, 482, 483, 492
Browder, Raisa, 131
Brown, Harold, 417
Brown, Richard T. S., 145
Bryan, William Jennings, 121
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 7, 360
Buckley, William F., Jr., 386, 425
Buckner, Robert, 199
Budenz, Louis, 133
budget deficits, 473–74
Buhle, Paul, 467
Bukharin, Nikolai, 18, 23, 26
Bukovsky, Vladimir, 395–96
Bullitt, William C., 10, 58–61, 75, 164–66, 197, 496
Burchett, Wilfred, 321, 327, 332
Burnham, James, 4, 386
Burns, Paul, 34
Burr, Lawrence C., 258
Bush administration, 425, 428, 431
Bush, George W.
dislike of, 289, 426–35
on Soviets, 13, 175
on terrorist attacks, 420
Cagan, Leslie, 311
Cagney, James, 195–96, 200, 490, 492–93
Caldicott, Helen, 368
California Eagle, 262, 263
“Campaign Song,” 112
Cannon, Lou, 378, 417
capitalism
and Davis, 464
and Dewey, 94
and Lenin, 19, 386, 469
and liberals, 4
and Miller, 192
and Obama, 478
Reagan on, 389
and Stalin, 234
Carey, George W., 81
Carlucci, Frank, 403
Carmichael, Stokely, 312, 320, 322
Carter, Jimmy, 8, 358–65, 391, 396, 417, 433–35, 466
Casablanca, 493
“Case of Leon Trotsky, The,” 107
Casey, Bill, 400
Castro, Fidel, 295, 319, 330–33, 339–40, 347, 466, 471–72, 475
Catherine II (empress), 54
Cattell, J. McKeen, 92
Ceauçescu, Nicolae, 418
Chamberlain, W. H., 36
Chambers, Whittaker
changes in, 10, 87, 268
on Communism, 3, 5
death of, 334
research on, 9
as spy, 10, 106–7, 220, 442–43
Chaplin, Charlie, 196
Chapman, Harriet Alice, 83
Charen, Mona, 3
Chavez, Hugo, 474–75
Chebrikov, Viktor, 407–9
Chiang Kai-shek, 146, 258, 262, 282
“Chicago Eight,” 327, 336
Chicago Star, 145, 211, 249, 252–54, 444, 452
Chicago Tribune, 444
Chicago uprisings, 6, 293–304, 296, 297, 312–13, 326–27, 336–39, 478
Childs, Morris, 10, 34, 282–85
Chilovsky, Moishe, 282
China Today, 238
Christian Left. See Religious Left
Christianity, 85, 97, 267–68
Church Trials, 97
Churchill, Winston, 10, 39, 125, 164, 167, 178, 208, 234, 270, 378
Ciechanowski, Jan, 171
Clark, Bill, 375–76, 416
Clark, Judy, 346, 347, 348
Clark, Tom, 140, 264
class hatred, 37–38, 115
class struggle, 26, 150–51, 183, 359
class warfare, 13, 37, 94, 105, 383
“Clergymen Group Charges War Aim,” 145
Clinton administration, 392, 425
Clinton, Bill, 417, 436, 437
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 333, 427, 436, 449, 460, 463, 466
Codovilla, Victorio, 128
Cohen, Richard, 392–93
Cold War
and Carter, 358–65
and Columbia University, 418
and CPUSA, 21–22, 136, 146
and Davis, 260–61, 269, 273–77
intelligence on, 127
intent of, 1–14, 17
post–Cold War era, 454
and Reagan, 203, 366–75, 390–401
reminders of, 420–26, 430–33, 438–47, 470, 477, 480
source on, 127
and “Star Wars,” 411, 417–19
and Truman, 180, 231–45
and Vietnam War, 280–85
“Cold War in Church,” 265
Cold Warrior, 234, 304, 370, 440
Cole, Lester, 184, 194, 228, 493
Collected Works of V. I. Lenin, The, 188, 377, 387
“collective nurseries,” 76–77
Collier, Peter, 9, 334
“Colonel Lao” letter, 291–93, 292, 303
Colson, Charles, 353
Columbia University
and Ayers, 422, 432, 454
and Boudin, 475–76
on Cold War, 418
Columbia Law School, 424
Columbia Teachers College, 66, 79, 84, 89, 92, 422, 454, 472, 475
and Dewey, 86, 393, 422
and Gore, 427
and Lamont, 334, 424
and MDS, 470
and Obama, 348, 446, 458
and progressives, 61, 69, 79–80, 149, 467
radicals of, 329–37, 351, 422, 437, 470, 475–78