Let Me Tell You About Harry Hopkins

By Rich Kozlovich 

If you looked up Hopkins in Wikipedia you could only come away with the impression he was a dedicated public servant from his early life who was called into service by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s to administer New Deal programs such as the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, the Civil Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration. Hopkins became a major policy voice in the Roosevelt administration and he easily had more access to the President than any other advisor, especially since he ended up living in the White House for three and one half years, even living there with his third wife for a time. His influence was so strong he was known as the “deputy President.” It is also believed that he was a Soviet agent.

This appeared in Wikipedia regarding comments from one of his defenders:

“Verne W. Newton, author of FDR and the Holocaust, said that no writer discussing Hopkins has identified any secrets disclosed, nor any decision in which he distorted American priorities in order to help Communism. As Mark demonstrates, Hopkins was not in fact pro-Soviet in his recommendations to FDR, he was anti-German and pro-U.S. Any "secrets" disclosed were authorized. Mark says that at the time, any actions were taken specifically to help the American war effort, and to prevent the Soviets from making a deal with Hitler.”

Well, that is what we shall examine, especially since so much information has come out in the 1990’s regarding Soviet spies, communists and fellow travelers who infiltrated the highest levels of the Roosevelt Administration, including Hopkins.

We have to understand that the media was heavily infiltrated with Stalinist sympathizers or outright Communists from the 1920's on. But not only the media! During the Great Depression FDR expanded government tremendously when he created all those new agencies. Agencies which very quickly became infiltrated by Communists, allowing them to act secretly as agents for the Soviet Union while on America's payroll; largely with the help secret communists acting as agents for Stalin like Harry Hopkins.

In the book entitled The Sword and the Shield information about this era and the people involved in Soviet spying during the 20th century was based on copied KGB documents smuggled out of the USSR, which had been hidden under the floor of his country home until “1992 when British intelligence managed to get both him and his six trunks of copied documents out of Russia”.

Hopkins was in fact a Soviet agent, as confirmed by KGB defector Oleg Godievsky named as a Soviet intelligence agent. In fact he quoted another KGB operative Iskhak Akhmerov as saying that Hopkins was “their most important Soviet war-time agent in the United States”. The intercepted messages between the Soviet Union and their agents in the U.S. (known as the Venona intercepts) clearly showed that Hopkins was contact No. 19.

Hopkins was directly responsible for getting Roosevelt, who was totally unprepared and extremely ill, to go to Yalta and negotiate what would become the fate of Eastern Europe under Stalin's iron boot, as Reed Irvine states in his January 5, 2000 article, “Harry Hopkins: Traitor, Not Hero”, saying:

“Hopkins said the Russians had been "reasonable and farseeing." Robert Sherwood, a Roosevelt speechwriter, called Yalta "a monstrous fraud." Hopkins had been instrumental in our supplying, with no conditions, the arms that enabled Stalin to defeat the Germans. He helped seal their control of Eastern Europe, and he is suspected of having authorized shipments of uranium that helped them develop their A-bomb."

Hopkins would time and time again come down supporting Soviet positions, including sabotaging the Polish government in exile’s efforts while extolling the Soviet puppets as the true leaders of Poland. He even denounced in vehement terms the Red Cross investigation of the murders of several thousand captive Polish officers murdered in Russia’s Katyn Forest. A crime we in fact know was committed by the Russians, in order to be assured there would be no leadership in Poland that could work against their long term goal of absorbing Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe. 

There is an argument in his defense that he was and “unconscious agent” and "simply acting as a "back channel" to the Russians, maintaining informal East-West contact." Evans and Romerstein point out that this is an explanation that doesn't fit the facts: 

"If Hopkins were merely trying to maintain such contact, he could have done so through Soviet ambassadors Litvinov, Constantine Oumansky, or Andrei Gromyko, or members of the Soviet Purchasing commission, all of whom were in the United States in legal fashion at one time or another, and with whom Hopkins could have had all the dealings that he cared to."

They go on to say:

Akhmerov, however was an illegal operating under false cover and would not have revealed himself to Hopkins unless absolutely certain his secret KGB identity would be protected. So, whatever Hopkins’s motivation, “unconscious agent” doesn’t fit the picture.

Hopkins died young in 1946 at 56 years old, but Hopkins may have been one of the most influential people of the 20th century because through his deception and treason he left a legacy of Communist imposed tyranny on much of the world.

But he didn't do it all by himself!

The History Lesson You Never Learned! The History Lesson You Were Never Taught!

By Rich Kozlovich

This is the history lesson everyone should have gotten and never received.  As I have said they in the past – they just won’t teach history. 

I have known about the Venona Intercepts for years, and I have known about the infiltration of Soviet agents and fellow travelers who worked to support and promote Stalin and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the 1920’s and on.  I knew that Joe McCarthy was a nut job, but I also knew he was accurate in his description of Communist infiltration of the State Department.  Remember that the House of Representatives, run by the Democrats at the time also held hearings on this, known as the House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).  But that was only the tip of the ice berg. 

Wartime agencies such as the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, the Office of War Information (OWI) and the Board of Economic Warfare (BEW) were heavily penetrated by "Communists, fellow travelers, and Soviet agents".  They were in positions to exert influence regarding intelligence, information flow and procurement. When the war ended thousands of those staffers would end up being transferred to the State Department, many of them Soviet agents.   "The security problems hatched in the war would thus come to roost at State." 

Soviet spies and sympathizers infiltrated the White House, Department of Defense, and all of the agencies created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  But mostly they heavily infiltrated the Treasury Department, which had enormous influence on FDR in his frail dealings with Stalin at Yalta and Teheran, virtually giving Eastern Europe to Stalin and later Asia via the Communist takeover against the Nationalist government run by Chiang Kai-shek.  

I have posted information in the past discussing this, but two things happened recently that have motivated me to really expand on this important history.  A history that is virtually unknown to most people.  First, I have been reading, Stalin’s Secret Agents, The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government, by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein, and secondly I watched the attacks on Michelle Bachmann.  Mark Levin noted the scorn congressional colleagues directed at “Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and three other House members who asked for an examination of evidence that the parent organization of jihadist groups such as al-Qaida and Hama were wielding influence on U.S. policy from within”, saying “The lawmakers were “treated like pariahs”!  

It was impossible to miss the similarities to what is happening now and what happened to those who challenged this massive infiltration of Communists in the federal government.  This included military personnel whose career advancement ended for speaking up, along with investigative personnel, including the FBI.  When the upper echelon is sympathetic and those around them are able to control the information flow and decision making long term problems are created that can't be easily overcome or ever overcome.   

So I have decided that we need an in depth history lesson.  There are names here that you may recognize but don’t really know the details about them, and there will be names unfamiliar to you.  That will all change. 

The Silvermaster File

Arguably the most comprehensive, detailed FBI file on attempted Communist and Soviet penetration of the Federal government, based initially on the allegations of former Soviet espionage courier Elizabeth Bentley (code-named "Gregory" by the FBI, by which name this file is also known), beginning in November 1945.  (This list is tip of the iceberg. RK)

The Silvermaster File of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation is a 162-volume compendium of some 26,000 pages of documents relating to the Bureau's investigation of Communist penetration of the U.S. federal government during the Cold War.

 

Beginning in 1945 with the allegations of defecting Soviet courier Elizabeth Bentley (Venona cover names “Myrna”; Umnitsa, “Clever Girl”), the file is also known as the Bentley file or Gregory file ("Gregory" was the FBI code name for Bentley).

 

The file takes its name from Nathan Gregory Silvermaster (Venona cover names Pel, Pal, "Paul"; "Robert") of the War Production Board, whom Bentley named as head of an underground Communist network known as the Silvermaster Group. Among the people named in the file in connection with this group are President Franklin Roosevelt's Administrative Assistant Lauchlin Currie (Venona cover name "Page") and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White (Venona cover names “Lawyer”; “Jurist”; "Richard").

 

Also named in the file are Victor Perlo (Venona cover name "Raider " ), chief of the Aviation Section of the War Production Board, and contacts of his Perlo group, including Alger Hiss (Venona cover name “Ales”secretary general of the United Nations Charter Conference. (Like several others identified by Bentley, Hiss had been identified independently by another defecting Soviet courier, Whittaker Chambers, to Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle in 1939.) Among dozens of others named by Bentley in this file in connection with this network is Duncan Lee (Venona cover name “Koch”), confidential assistant to William Donovan, founder and director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), wartime predecessor of the CIA.

 

Joe McCarthy was right. 

 

 

The "Party Faithful" Are Nitwits, Halfwits, Misfits, and Lunatics

 By Rich Kozlovich

One of Geopolitical Futures analysts, Ekaterina Zolotova, posted this article, (Since this is a paid site, I can't link it for you), Rocket Launch Exposes Russia’s Technology Gaps, saying:

The space industry is a bellwether of Moscow’s technological development and import substitution efforts. Russia on Thursday successfully test-launched a heavy-lift rocket called the Angara-A5, its first space rocket developed after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Though the Kremlin has touted it as a success, the event was plagued by several setbacks. The launch at the Vostochny Cosmodrome was initially planned for December 2023 but was postponed. It was rescheduled for April 9 but canceled at the last minute. (Officials said there was a failure of the pressurization system of the rocket’s central block oxidizer tank.) It was postponed again the following day, due to technical issues, before the rocket was finally launched on April 11. This case highlights Moscow’s challenges in the face of Western sanctions, especially in technology-heavy sectors such as the space industry.

It's clear sanctions will work, if they're adhered to strictly.  However, there's really more involved than sanctions here.  Entirely too many forget Russia's technological advances were so often stolen from the United States.  During the first Iraq war it was made clear their best technology, with which they'd supplied Saddam Hussein, was at best second class against American technology. 

The same applies to China right now.  As a general rule, if these central planning tyrannies can't steal it, they don't have it, since their very system is predicated on going along to get along Lysenkoism.   Great technological advances come about by bucking the system, and challenging consensus, and that can get you killed in these nations.  

Make no mistake, if Oppenheimer was a Russian scientist, and doing what he was doing, he would have joined the ranks of Willi Munzenberg, Otto Katz, and Leon Trotsky in short order. All good commies who ran afoul of Stalin, who seemed to think his most ardent commie supporters needed purging occasionally. 

Having said all that, right now the U.S. Military is in sad shape unable to even supply spare parts to keep ships afloat, and planes in the air, or even recruit sufficient manpower as a result of the destructive thrust of the Obama administration, and made vastly worse by Biden.  

Perhaps we need another HUAC (run then by Democrats) to go after Hollywood again, and another Senate McCarty style hearing to go after traitors in the government!

McCarthy may have been a liar, a drunk, and a nut, but he was right.  He just didn’t know it.  The release of the VENONA intercepts in 1996 proved it.  However, FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower had access to that intel.  Based on that, we now have to conclude FDR was in point of fact a traitorous co-conspirator with these communist infiltrators, since all those government agencies he created were all infiltrated by communists, socialists, and fellow travelers.  FDR's  government is considered the most heavily infiltrated government int history of the world, and he had to know it based on VENONA intercepts alone.

But Truman and Eisenhower, both of whom had to know what was happening, did very little to purge them.  As a result, those who infiltrated the OSS just moved over into the CIA.

The federal government, academia, the media, Hollywood, the military, and even American industry has now been thoroughly infested with the philosophical progeny of those traitors, which should convince everyone that technological theft is not only still going on, I’m convinced its now worse than ever. 

Hollywood is by far the the dumbest bunch of nitwits in America, and has always been so.  On April 9, 2024, Michael Flores published this piece, Hollywood Once Applauded Russian Collusion, saying:

Remember how outraged celebrities were believing that Putin and Trump were working together? Where is the outrage when Hollywood does the collusion?   “Donald Trump is committing Treason against The United States of America,” tweeted director Rob Reiner a few months back. “He has turned the world’s oldest Democracy into a wholly owned subsidiary of Vladimir Putin.”  A beneficiary of Hollywood’s chronic nepotism, Reiner was one of scores of celebrities accusing Trump of colluding with Russia.......

All of which has been shown to be a completely false conspiratorial narrative by the left.  Yet:

Not too long ago Tinseltown celebrated Hollywood’s fellow travelers, the ones who defiantly colluded with the Russia of Josef Stalin.

 

This is the same philosophical progeny that defended the Hollywood Ten, and still do, in spite of the fact we now know they were guilty of spying, and/or corrupting American thinking to  accept communism, which was required of all "party faithful".  

 

Playwright Lillian Hellman.....knew that the Ten – and many more – were Communist Party faithful. Still, she wrote a predictably mendacious editorial in the magazine of the Screen Writers Guild that same year, claiming, “There has never been a single line or word of communism in any American picture at any time.”  Hellman called the HUAC hearings a “honky tonk show” and “sickening, sickening, immoral and degraded." ............. The lies finally didn’t matter. Despite writer Mary McCarthy’s famed accusation – “Every word [Hellman] writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the'” – and the stream of new revelations emanating from the Soviet Union, Hellman and her progressive allies maintained a chokehold on the American cultural narrative.

 

Do you see the pattern here?  You should since it's the same pattern playing out right now with Hollywood and the Deep State, and it's even more dangerous now than ever.  In just four years, tens of millions of dollars flowed from CCP-tied military companies to DC lobbyists:

 

.......one of those firms is the Podesta Group, another employs former Speaker John Boehner..... Podesta....... as in Tony and John Podesta, scandal-ridden fixtures of the D.C. Democrat cabal...... We’ve got California politicians welcoming Chinese leaders to “American” streets with red carpet treatment in which the only flags lining the pavement are the banners of communist China.......We’ve got military-aged Chinese males swarming across our “border” before largely disappearing somewhere into “our” interior—Gordon Chang pointed out that they occasionally pop up when they’re caught practicing their shooting skills in rural areas.....Chinese biological weapons labs, operating just miles from “American” military bases…in the U.S.   We’ve got government officials, namely Fauci, taking orders from Chinese communists and forming public policy based on such orders.

 

What's the difference between what FDR did and what these "conniving little traitorous monsters" are doing now?  

• Stalin's Secret Agents by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein. 
• American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character
• FBI: Decline and Fall
• Vote Out the IRS

Nothing Is Ever As It Appears In China: Infiltration, Part II

By Rich Kozlovich

During the 1890's socialists became a presence in America, but since European style socialism is fundamentally atheistic it didn't really gain a lot of traction as America was a very religious nation at that time.  So they did what all good little socialists do, they lied.  

They hide who they were by transforming themselves into the progressive movement, and believe it or not, religion was the binding force, hence what's now called the Social Gospel was born, pushing the idea that socialism was the practical application of Christian ethics, which is Hillary Clinton's religious training and background by the way. 

Infiltration of America by communist spies has been a problem since 1920, right after the Russian revolution.  During the Roosevelt administration it was so bad it's been stated the government of the United States was the most heavily infiltrated government in the history of the world.  All those agencies FDR created were filled with Soviet agents, communists, socialists and fellow travelers.  One, Harry Dexter White, even lived in the White House for two years. 

Editor's note: I recommend reading Diana West wrote American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character and also  Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein, both of which outline just how badly his administration was infiltrated, and it seems clear FDR had to know it.  RK

For a short time with the fall of the Soviet Union their archives became accessible, and with the release of the VENONA intercepts in 1995 we now know communist agents infiltrated all of America's institutions including academia, unions, Hollywood, newspapers, government, and to this day we don't know who they all were, but their intellectual progeny remain.  Different names, different faces, but still in positions of power and responsibility with the same destructive philosophy.

Infiltration of America by the enemies of freedom is easy since America allows so much freedom, and the Russians were quite good at it.  The Chinese are even better at it.

On December 13, 2020, Paul Sacca posted this piece, Unprecedented' database leak exposes Chinese Communist Party members 'embedded' in western companies and governments: report, saying: 

A massive database of nearly 2 million registered Chinese Communist Party members has been leaked, providing the rest of the world with an "unprecedented view" into the structure of how China could infiltrate western businesses and companies, including ones in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. 

"Communist party branches have been set up inside western companies, allowing the infiltration of those companies by CCP members — who, if called on, are answerable directly to the communist party, to the Chairman, the president himself,".......there are also the details of 79,000 communist party branches, many of them inside companies..............."there are 123 "party loyalists" employed at Pfizer and AstraZeneca,.........Both pharmaceutical behemoths are developing coronavirus vaccines..........

There were allegedly "hundreds" of Chinese Communist Party members employed at "firms with defense industry interests" such as Airbus, Boeing, and Rolls-Royce "......... reportedly 600 CCP members working at 19 branches of British banks, such as HSBC and Standard Chartered in 2016. The CCP members even infiltrated British consulates and universities, according to the report. Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here

The goal of all this?  Protect and defend the Chinese Communist Party, China's leadership, especially President Xi, defend China's economic interests, manipulate political systems worldwide in order to promote and encourage politicians who will institute economic and military policies that are detrimental to the west and friendly to China, and convince the world the China model is the right model for the developing world.  With the ultimate goal of creating a Chinese economic and military hegemony world wide.

This is being done on a broad front, but in Part I let's focus on one aspect.  American institutions of "higher" learning.

On August 20, 2020 Curtis Ellis published the article, China’s Growing Influence on Campus.  Ellis notes that professors and administrators have been corrupted with Chinese funding, and "University campuses are a major front in the war."  And it is a war.

 

He lists the following:

• The FBI arrested Charles Lieber, the chairman of Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology department, for accepting millions of dollars from the Wuhan virology lab and then lying about it.
• A UCLA professor was convicted of taking CCP money to illegally send semiconductors with military applications to China.
• A University of Kansas professor hid the fact he was working full-time for a Chinese university while he was conducting federally-funded research here.
• One of the top researchers at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas didn’t reveal he was also being paid $14 million by a cancer institute in China.
• Elite American universities have grown increasingly dependent on CCP money.
• The University of Pennsylvania received $61 million in gifts and contracts from China between March 2017 and the end of 2019; over the previous four-year period, it took in just $19 million from Chinese donors, The Washington Free Beacon reports.
• It happens that the university is home to the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a perch for members of Biden’s foreign policy cabinet-in-waiting.
• Between 2011 and 2017, Chinese government, companies, and individuals – China sent nearly 370,000 students to the United States in the 2018-2019 academic year – gave more than $426 million to U.S. universities and colleges. According to government data, Harvard University was the top recipient, reporting over $57 million from Chinese entities – not counting the money the chair of the chemistry department took from the CCP.

Has all this money had an impact of what these universities teach and promote. Yes!  All their activities and curriculum are geared to not upsetting China, and the hand that's feeding them.  No one can come on the campus and expose China's human rights abuses in Hong King, Tibet, organ harvesting, slave labor, and the total elimination of religious freedom via violent reprisals for daring to believe in something other than the secular divinity of the Chinese Communist Party.  

Newly obtained documents reveal disturbing details of Chinese influence on campus states: 

 “......these Confucius Institute contracts give substantial power to the Chinese side because educational institutions want Beijing’s money for language instruction but more important they want a continual flow of Chinese students, who generally pay full tuition,"........“Chinese tuition money has become a substantial source of revenue for many colleges and universities,"......... officials have warned that they are “propaganda” centers of the communist regime. “Confucius institutes are not cultural centers,” the Heritage Foundation’s Senior Fellow at Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy and author of The Plot to Change America Mike Gonzalez told Campus Reform.  “The Confucius Institutes are meant to curb and limit what Americans learn about the realities of China,"

• [RELATED: US designates Chinese-funded Confucius Institutes as 'foreign missions']

 On May 20, 2020 it was reported Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made it clear they had plans to "expel Chinese students who come here to spy on behalf of China's Communist Party." "We're taking seriously the threat that students that come here who have connections deeply to the Chinese State they shouldn't be here at our schools, spying,...........President Trump "is the first president...to recognize the threat that the Chinese communist party presented to the United States of America. "  "They were stealing intellectual property from us, they were moving in the South China sea, and all the things that you know. And presidents before (he mentioned Bush and Obama) just turned their head and wouldn't do it."  Pompeo was asked by Laura Ingraham:  Do you think China would prefer, all things considered, for Biden to win in November?" 

•  China Blasts U.S. Over Trump-Era Policy Used to Deny Visas to Military-Linked Chinese Students
  

I think the answer to that question is now moot, since Biden has revoked  the Trump administrations policy to stop China from influencing American students on campus, and the Biden DOJ has dropped charges against 5 researchers accused of hiding Chinese military affiliations. 
 

Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms funded by China isn't just involved with higher education, it's influence is far, deep and wide throughout all of America's systems of education, as noted in this piece.  Chinese Regime Infiltrated US K–12 Education Through Deep Collaboration With College Board.     

• Live Panel: Corrupted by China: The College Board and K-12 Education

Let's try and get this right, Communist China Threatens American Universities, and the very structure of America.

The radical left has made its way into our universities and focused on combating perceived injustices – renaming buildings, liberalizing curriculum, and promoting safe spaces over open, honest debate – while staying silent on their connections to Communist China, a country committing genocide against its Muslim population and actively oppressing the people of Hong Kong................

Under Article 38 of the Hong Kong National Security Law, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims that it has global policing authority to prosecute anyone, anywhere, who might offend the delicate sensibilities of General Secretary Xi or even mention Beijing’s long list of human rights abuses...........After years of turning a blind eye to Chinese spying for the sake of grant money from the CCP and full tuition from Chinese students, universities must face the fact that the CCP’s actions require a strong response from the United States – namely a decoupling between the U.S. and China in many areas of our national life: economics, finance, trade, and now education............No American institution should cower to the Chinese Communist Party and put our nation – and their students – at risk.

Infiltration Part III will be forthcoming, along with more articles dealing with China next week.  I've been saving articles for months to do this project.  It's time consuming, almost mind boggling trying to coordinate all that information deciding what to include, what to exclude and what to save for future use, and how to put it together in some rational, understandable and readable format.  But I think it's impossible to make clear just how long range, mendacious and insidious all this is if done piecemeal.   

Best wishes to us all.  

• Nothing Is Ever As It Appears In China: Human Rights, Part I
• Nothing Is Ever As It Appears In China: Military Intimidation

Blast From the Past: What is the News Worth Knowing and Why Don't We Know It?

By Rich Kozlovich

(Editor's Note:  I originally published this on Thursday, January 31, 2013, but in light of all that's going on I thought it worthwhile to republish this in order to understand everything that's happening has a historical foundation, structure and context.  And it goes back a long way, and the current administration and Democrat party is the culmination of that history.  RK)

For weeks I have been watching the news in stark amazement.  Am I the only one who noticed that an awful lot of hours have been devoted to a football player named Te’o, a cycler named Lance, Mrs. Obama’s new hair-do and Bob Beckel claiming that the only thing America “really” wanted to know during Steve Kroft’s interview with the President of the United States and Hillary Clinton was how they got worked things out together to get along. 

Say what?  

My mother, who turned 88 this year has a phrase for this kind of thing:  “That falls under the category of who gives a crap!”  Only she doesn't say crap.  Clearly a fit phrase for this whole last couple of weeks of news…. well .......actually most of what passes for ‘news’ from the main stream media. 

By comparison how much time has been devoted discussing about efforts by N. Korea and Iran to develop a nuclear delivery system. You know - two countries who were part of what President Bush called the Axis of Evil -which of course made the media smugly snicker.  

How about the potential military conflict between China and Japan over the Senkakus islands in the East China Sea?  Mali is just now coming to the media's attention.  I linked information about this  on October 13th.  On to Timbuktu! A New Jolly Little War We Can't Find on a Map, on October 30th , -What Mali's Crisis Means for the Future of Western Military Intervention, and on November 2nd,  Welcome to Islam: The Sound of Silence in Mali.

What passes for news is full of meaningless dribble that is an effort in misdirection from the facts about important realities that allow people to develop understanding and make good decisions. Instead we get news that is filled with lies of omission, lies of commission and outright bias. I wonder how these people sleep at night. The word jaded comes to mind when I think of the main stream media. 

Or is it more?

We have to understand that the media was heavily infiltrated with Stalinist sympathizers or outright Communists from the 1920's on. But not only the media!  During the Great Depression FDR expanded government tremendously when he created all those new agencies.  Agencies which very quickly became infiltrated by Communists, allowing them to act secretly as agents for the Soviet Union while on America's payroll.  Largely with the help secret communists acting as agents for Stalin like Harry Hopkins.   

The intercepted messages between the Soviet Union and their agents in the U.S. (known as the Venona intercepts) clearly showed that Hopkins was contact No. 19 who KGB defector Oleg Godievsky named as a Soviet intelligence agent. In fact he quoted another KGB operative Iskhak Akhmerov as saying that Hopkins was “their most important Soviet war-time agent in the United States”.  Hopkins was FDR’s closest aide, often seeing him daily, and even living in the White House.  

Hopkins was directly responsible for getting Roosevelt, who was totally unprepared and extremely ill, to go to Yalta and negotiate what would become the fate of Eastern Europe under Stalin's iron boot.   The fact of the matter is the Yalta meeting was a massive fraud that allowed for massive supplies to the Soviet Union, and it's even suspected shipments of uranium that helped the Soviets develop their A-bomb as quickly as they did. 

More importantly it was discovered by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner of the CIA, (both of which were infiltrated by Soviet agents during the war and after) that Stalin was "diverting American Lend-Lease supplies shipped to Russia via the Pacific to the control of the Japanese, in exchange for materials Moscow was receiving from Japan."  

When this betrayal was discovered by the OSS "they were ordered by highest authority: drop the subject, make no mention of it."  Apparently serving the interests of the Soviet Union was a far larger priority than serving American interests and saving American lives. 

In spite of all the propaganda from the media about FDR, he wasn’t the brightest pebble in the brook.  He, like his cousin Teddy, was a failure in his business ventures, and his understanding of leftist dictators was appalling, especially Stalin, which Hopkins nourished.   By the way; if you look Hopkins up in Wikipedia you would think was a wonderful public servant, instead of the traitor that he was. 

As for the media, there were people like I.F. Stone who was very influential in the U.S. among left wingers, and who, according to KGB general Oleg Kalugin, was “functioning as a Soviet intelligence asset”,  which was later confirmed through Venona.  It has been touted that he broke with the KGB, but apparently he hadn’t broken with his loyalty to Stalin or the Soviet Union or International Communism - take your pick - because he later re-established contact with them. 

Then there was Michael Straight, who became editor of the New Republic, a “left-liberal magazine …read by many influential people in government and elsewhere”, founded by his parents.  He was recruited into the Communist Party while attending Cambridge University in England, along with infamous Soviet spies Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt.  All acting as Soviet agents!  

Later he claimed that he broke with the Soviets, but “for years he neglected to tell anyone about his Cambridge comrades, specifically Guy Burgess, whom Straight knew to be working at the British embassy in Washington during the Korean War and undoubtedly sharing Anglo-American military secrets with his Soviet bosses.”   We really do have to start thinking clearly about this.  Those who presumably left the Communist party yet refused to testify about those who remained were protecting Soviet agents because those who stayed had to be agents or else.  

He was also related by “marriage to two certified Soviet agents – Louis Dolivet and Gustavo Duran”, also about whom he wasn’t “conspicuously forthcoming”.  This was the editor of the New Republic “who regularly instructed his liberal readers on Cold War issues.”

Then there was “famed newspaperman Drew Person, whose sensational exposes in his syndicated column, appearing in hundreds of papers and widely broadcast radio show, made him a prominent and powerful figure”, who made a “specialty of attacking anti-Communist spokesman of the day in the executive branch and Congress.” 

Although I am not aware of any evidence that he personally was a Communist, or a Soviet agent, but two of his “legmen” were.  This would appear to be a classic case of infiltration, just as it was with FDR.  Many of these types were fellow travelers, or as Stalin described them, “useful idiots”.

When you look more deeply at that media you find startling facts that seem almost beyond belief.  On November 12, 2012 I wrote an article about the New York Times entitled; The Lady is a Hag.  I felt it was important to do some history on the media and the number one socialist dictator in the world - Fidel Castro.  What follows is from that article.

At the death of CBS news guru Don Hewitt Humberto Fontova wrote an article calling him a Castro Enabler because of “his media advance-work helping install a Stalinist regime in Cuba”.

He went on to say that:

Hewitt of CBS still seemed proud of his work as a Castro media auxiliary. During that interim, over 20,000 Cubans were murdered by firing squad and beaten or starved to death in forced labor camps. Another 70-80 thousand were ripped apart by sharks or drowned in the Florida straits (attempting to flee a nation that previously took in more immigrants per-capita than the U.S.

(Editor's Note:  Please follow the link to see the truth about Hewitt’s deliberate chicanery over the interview with Elian’s father by Dan Rather.  If you had doubts that there is such a thing as leftist corruption amongst “journalists” this would certainly dispel them. RK)

What does that have to do with the New York Times you may ask?   This is merely demonstrating how badly infested the main stream media is with leftist thinking, and has been for decades.   

Fontova went on to say that New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews “made Fidel Castro an international pop star on the front page of the world's most important newspaper. 

” “The February 1957 NYT's headline article proclaimed that, "Fidel Castro has strong ideas of liberty, democracy, social justice, the need to restore Cuba's Constitution....this amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic and therefore anti-Communist."  That was a lie and they all knew it.

But that shouldn’t surprise anyone that the NYT would lie about socialist dictators.  Walter Duranty is in my opinion the epitome of infamy when it comes to journalistic corruption in favor of leftism.   Who was Walter Duranty? 

In this article by Roger Simon,“Announcing the Winners of the Inaugural Walter Duranty Prize", (a prize for journalistic mendacity) they state Duranty deliberately:

 “whitewashed the repressive evil deeds of the Soviet Union”…. most prominently in the case of the Ukrainian Holodomor: the forced starvation of between 1.2 and 12 million ethnic Ukrainians, depending on whose estimates you believe.  In other words, a lot of people.  

Duranty called that genocide “an exaggeration and malignant propaganda”.  This appeared in” newspaper of record”, the New York Times.  British author Malcolm Muggeridge called Duranty: “The greatest liar I have met in fifty years of journalism.”  

Duranty also made sure that the Soviets knew that the New York Times would “vet all reports about” the Soviet Union before it appeared in the NYT, “effectively making that newspaper a U.S. branch of Pravda, for a time anyway.”  Duranty won the Pulitizer Prize for his mendacity; a prize that the NYT refuses to return, and the prize committee refuses to revoke in spite of the now known truth of his actions.

Simon notes that polls have shown that sixty percent of the general public has little trust in the media.  He wonders who are the other forty percent?  Good question since it is clear that the media supports a movement that has murdered over one hundred million people, kept them starved, disease ridden, down trodden, abused and tyrannized since the terrible  beginning of that movement; The French Revolution.  What kind of person would have confidence in them? 

For the media to support leftist thinking is unconscionable.  The leftist media knows the truth and must be insane, otherwise how could they possibly support such thinking?  And now society begins to understand.  The people have been lied to by these powerful entities; they will not forget or forgive.  

As for the “Old Gray Lady”! I keep hearing seemingly conservative commentators who feel saddened that the Times is dying.  I think perhaps that insanity is an infectious disease in journalism, or perhaps they don't have the courage to be a rock in the current.  Heterodoxy isn't for the faint of heart!

No one can be characterized as a lady who, for all of these decades, has been guilty  of promoting such a vile cancerous philosophy as socialism.  The New York Times is not a lady, she's a hag, and much of the media is equally as vile.  When the “Old Gray Hag” disappears that will be a day for rejoicing.  Not only for ourselves and our children and grandchildren, but also for the 100 million poor suffering people who were slaughtered by the socialist monsters of the 20th century.  Monsters they supported!

This brings me back to my point.  What is the news worth knowing and why don’t we know it?  I know that it can't be a conspiracy to keep us uninformed, misinformed and ignorant because we all know "there is no such thing as a conspiracy".  And I know that must be so because my friends who don't read history books have told me so.  So then, if the answer is that there is no conspiracy, I still have to ask; what is the news worth knowing and why don't we know it?   

Gerard Jackson wrote this in his article, Is Journalism and Treason Joined at the Hip? (Editor's Note:  The link has been removed as it no longer works. RK) noting:

"Treason is an ugly word and an even uglier crime. In simple language treason is the act of betraying one’s country to those who would destroy it and enslave its people. This definition is so simple that leftwing sophisticated journalists sneer at it. To them treason is merely relative with one country’s traitor being another country’s hero. This is the appalling moral and intellectual state of current Western journalism. The moral rot runs so deep that one despairs of living long enough to see any improvement."

On any issue of consequence I feel that it is important to know the history, i.e., the events and characters involved with the issue.  Tell me the history and I will give you the answer and the history of the main stream media clearly shows who and what they are.  And they are not honorable! Some of the most prominent people in the main stream media and Hollywood have declared that Fidel Castro - a man who is clearly a mass murderer - is one of the greatest men in modern history.  Are we to believe his crimes aren’t known to these people?

Now the next questions every clear thinking person should be asking are these.  What are they promoting and what are their goals and why - and based on their past history can they be sane?

Recommended reading:

• Stalin's Secret Agents by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein. 
• American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character
• Bukovsky: Judgment in Moscow, Chapter 1

 

Spies Like Us

Daniel J. Flynn  Monday Mar 7, 2011 @ Human Events

Editor's Note: I'm posting this seven year old article to emphasize just how badly infiltrated the U.S with Soviet agents became during the FDR years. The Soviet Union's gone, but the U.S. hating philosophical heirs of that group remains.  Different names, different people with the same twisted logic, same warped justifications, but all with the same goal.  The destruction of the American identity, the American culture and the Constitution.   Some are fellow travelers, but in government, we call them the Deep State.  RK.   

“I will always say that I’m innocent and that I’m being framed,” testified Judith Coplon after being arrested in 1949 with a Russian agent, secret government documents, and after a chase worthy of The French Connection.  The pinched Justice Department official always said she was innocent and framed.  She certainly never believed that.

By last week, when the New York Times reported Coplon’s death at 89, nobody contested her guilt.  Coplon’s name had popped up in an incriminating manner in the Soviet archives and in the Venona intercepts, where she is described as “politically well-developed” and having “no doubts about whom she is working for.”

“Was she a spy?” daughter Emily rhetorically asks in the Times.  “I think it’s another question that I ask:  Was she part of a community that felt that they were going to bring, by their actions, an age of peace and justice and an equal share for all and the abolishing of color lines and class lines?”  She answers, “If these were things that she actually did, she was not defining them as espionage.”

The children of Stalin’s Western minions have largely dropped protestations of parental innocence.  They concede their moms and dads guilty—of saving the world, of ushering in peace, of fighting for equality, of trying to eradicate prejudice.

Physicist Theodore Hall gave atomic secrets to the Soviets.  He didn’t serve a day in prison.  Instead, he led a comfortable life as a biological researcher at Cambridge University.  “He did what he did out of a real motive to save people’s lives,” daughter Ruth explained upon his 1999 death.  “It was an obligation.  He was a principled man of enormous integrity.  He did what he did at great personal risk.  He had nothing to gain from it personally.”

The Rosenbergs conspired to pass atomic secrets to Stalin too.  The macabre outcome for them couldn’t have been more different than Hall’s life in a bucolic English college town.  “What would the post-1950 world have looked like if the U.S. had the [nuclear] monopoly?” Michael Meeropol, eldest son of the Rosenbergs, asked on a “Nova” epidsode in 2002.  “It would be a very safe prediction to suggest that we would have used it on China in Korea, that we would have used it to help the French in Indochina in 1954.  Atomic espionage, he posits, “may have prevented World War III.”

The survivors talk as though their parents aided the Dalai Lama or Bob Geldof.  They gave military secrets to one of history’s most prolific mass murderers. Their willingness to commit treason for free is cited as a mark of good character.  If they had received money or sex in exchange for their treachery we could at least chalk it up to human weakness.  Alas, they needed no such inducement to help Joseph Stalin.  Instead, as evidenced even in their offspring, arrogance motivated these would-be world-savers.

They knew better than to believe tales of manufactured famine in the Ukraine, Moscow show trials, the gulag, and Soviet conquest of Eastern Europe.  They knew better than the elected officials entrusted by the people what information should be kept secret and what information should be shared.  They knew better than the criminal justice system, the public, and in some cases, even their children, so they maintained the ignoble lie of innocence until death.

The baby boomers are often accused of perfidy toward their elders.  But that just isn’t so for red-diaper babies.  In their fidelity toward their parents, the children of Communists exhibit a traditionalism rarely associated with the political creed they were born into.  One can fault the parents for risking to transform their offspring into orphans.  One can’t question the love of the children toward their parents—or at least toward the ideals on which their parents raised them.

Lest anyone accuse the children of Communists of uniform zeal in abiding by God’s commandment to honor thy parents, there is the case of Morton Sobell.  When a 91-year-old Sobell finally came clean about his atomic espionage, and implicated Julius Rosenberg in the process, filial loyalty demanded too much.  Stepdaughter Sydney Gurewitz Clemens groused that Sobell’s 2008 admission “complicated history and the personal histories of the many millions of people, all over the world, who gave time, energy, money, and heart to the struggle to support his claims of innocence.”  Put another way:  Don’t you dare pull the plug on our collective hallucination.

“If you feel that what you’re doing answers to a higher ideal,” Coplon’s daughter instructs, “it’s not treason.”  You can’t take it with you.  The illusions that Judith Coplon bequeathed to her daughter affirm that.

What is the News Worth Knowing and Why Don't We Know It?

By Rich Kozlovich

For weeks I have been watching the news in stark amazement.  Am I the only one who noticed that an awful lot of hours have been devoted to a football player named Te’o, a cycler named Lance, Mrs. Obama’s new hair-do and Bob Beckel claiming that the only thing America “really” wanted to know during Steve Kroft’s interview with the President of the United States and Hillary Clinton was how they got worked things out together to get along. 

Say what?  

My mother, who turned 88 this year has a phrase for this kind of thing:  “That falls under the category of who gives a crap!”  Only she doesn't say crap.  Clearly a fit phrase for this whole last couple of weeks of news…. well .......actually most of what passes for ‘news’ from the main stream media. 

By comparison how much time has been devoted discussing about efforts by N. Korea and Iran to develop a nuclear delivery system. You know - two countries who were part of what President Bush called the Axis of Evil -which of course made the media smugly snicker.  How about the potential military conflict between China and Japan over the Senkakus islands in the East China Sea?  Mali is just now coming to the media's attention.  I linked information about this  on October 13th.  On to Timbuktu! A New Jolly Little War We Can't Find on a Map, on October 30th , -What Mali's Crisis Means for the Future of Western Military Intervention, and on November 2nd,  Welcome to Islam: The Sound of Silence in Mali.

What passes for news is full of meaningless dribble that is an effort in misdirection from the facts about important realities that allow people to develop understanding and make good decisions.   Instead we get news that is filled with lies of omission, lies of commission and outright bias.  I wonder how these people sleep at night.   The word jaded comes to mind when I think of the main stream media. 

Or is it more?

We have to understand that the media was heavily infiltrated with Stalinist sympathizers or outright Communists from the 1920's on. But not only the media!  During the Great Depression FDR expanded government tremendously when he created all those new agencies.  Agencies which very quickly became infiltrated by Communists, allowing them to act secretly as agents for the Soviet Union while on America's payroll.  Largely with the help secret communists acting as agents for Stalin like Harry Hopkins.   

The intercepted messages between the Soviet Union and their agents in the U.S. (known as the Venona intercepts) clearly showed that Hopkins was contact No. 19 who KGB defector Oleg Godievsky named as a Soviet intelligence agent. In fact he quoted another KGB operative Iskhak Akhmerov as saying that Hopkins was:

 “their most important Soviet war-time agent in the United States”.  

Hopkins was FDR’s closest aide, often seeing him daily, and even living in the White House.  

Hopkins was directly responsible for getting Roosevelt, who was totally unprepared and extremely ill, to go to Yalta and negotiate what would become the fate of Eastern Europe under Stalin's iron boot. As Reed Irvine states in his January 5, 2000 article, “Harry Hopkins: Traitor, Not Hero”:

 “Hopkins said the Russians had been "reasonable and farseeing." Robert Sherwood, a Roosevelt speechwriter, called Yalta "a monstrous fraud." Hopkins had been instrumental in our supplying, with no conditions, the arms that enabled Stalin to defeat the Germans. He helped seal their control of Eastern Europe, and he is suspected of having authorized shipments of uranium that helped them develop their A-bomb."

More importantly it was discovered by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner of the CIA, (both of which were infiltrated by Soviet agents during the war and after) that Stalin was:

"diverting American Lend-Lease supplies shipped to Russia via the Pacific to the control of the Japanese, in exchange for materials Moscow was receiving from Japan."  

When this betrayal was discovered by the OSS:

"they were ordered by highest authority: drop the subject, make no mention of it."  

Apparently serving the interests of the Soviet Union was a far larger priority than serving American interests and saving American lives. 

In spite of all the propaganda from the media about FDR he wasn’t the brightest pebble in the brook.  He, like his cousin Teddy was a failure in his business ventures, and his understanding of leftist dictators was appalling, especially Stalin, which Hopkins nourished.   By the way; if you look Hopkins up in Wikipedia you would think was a wonderful public servant, instead of the traitor that he was. 

As for the media, there were people like I.F. Stone who was very influential in the U.S. among left wingers, and who was according to KGB general Oleg Kalugin was:

“functioning as a Soviet intelligence asset”.

Which was later confirmed through Venona.  It has been touted that he broke with the KGB, but apparently he hadn’t broken with his loyalty to Stalin or the Soviet Union or International Communism - take your pick - because he later re-established contact with them. 

Then there was Michael Straight, who became editor of the New Republic:

 “a left-liberal magazine …read by many influential people in government and elsewhere”.

Which was founded by his parents.  He was recruited into the Communist Party while attending Cambridge University in England, along with infamous Soviet spies Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt.  All acting as Soviet agents!  Later he claimed that he broke with the Soviets, but:

“for years he neglected to tell anyone about his Cambridge comrades, specifically Guy Burgess, whom Straight knew to be working at the British embassy in Washington during the Korean War and undoubtedly sharing Anglo-American military secrets with his Soviet bosses.”   

We really do have to start thinking clearly about this.  Those who presumably left the Communist party yet refused to testify about those who remained were protecting Soviet agents because those who stayed had to be agents or else.  

He was related by “marriage to two certified Soviet agents – Louis Dolivet and Gustavo Duran”, also about whom he wasn’t “conspicuously forthcoming”.  This was the editor of the New Republic “who regularly instructed his liberal readers on Cold War issues.”

Then there was:

“famed newspaperman Drew Person, whose sensational exposes in his syndicated column, appearing in hundreds of papers and widely broadcast radio show, made him a prominent and powerful figure”, [who made a] “specialty of attacking anti-Communist spokesman of the day in the executive branch and Congress.” 

Although I am not aware of any evidence that he personally was a Communist, or a Soviet agent, two of his “legmen” were.  This would appear to be a classic case of infiltration, just as it was with FDR.  Many of these types were fellow travelers, or as Stalin described them, “useful idiots”.

When you look more deeply at that media you find startling facts that seem almost beyond belief.  On November 12, 2012 I wrote an article about the New York Times entitled; The Lady is a Hag.  I felt it was important to do some history on the media and the number one socialist dictator in the world - Fidel Castro.  What follows is from that article.

At the death of CBS news guru Don Hewitt Humberto Fontova wrote an article calling him a Castro Enabler because of:

“his media advance-work helping install a Stalinist regime in Cuba”.

He went on to say that:

 “Hewitt of CBS still seemed proud of his work as a Castro media auxiliary. During that interim, over 20,000 Cubans were murdered by firing squad and beaten or starved to death in forced labor camps. Another 70-80 thousand were ripped apart by sharks or drowned in the Florida straits (attempting to flee a nation that previously took in more immigrants per-capita than the U.S.” 

(Please follow the link to see the truth about Hewitt’s deliberate chicanery over the interview with Elian’s father by Dan Rather.  If you had doubts that there is such a thing as leftist corruption amongst “journalists” this would certainly dispel them.)

What does that have to do with the New York Times you may ask?   This is merely demonstrating how badly infested the main stream media is with leftist thinking, and has been for decades.   

Fontova went on to say that New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews:

“made Fidel Castro an international pop star on the front page of the world's most important newspaper.” “The February 1957 NYT's headline article proclaimed that, "Fidel Castro has strong ideas of liberty, democracy, social justice, the need to restore Cuba's Constitution....this amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic and therefore anti-Communist."   

That was a lie and they all knew it.

But that shouldn’t surprise anyone that the NYT would lie about socialist dictators.  Walter Duranty is in my opinion the epitome of infamy when it comes to journalistic corruption in favor of leftism.   Who was Walter Duranty? 

 In this article by Roger Simon, “Announcing the Winners of the Inaugural Walter Duranty Prize", (a prize for journalistic mendacity) they state that Duranty deliberately:

 “whitewashed the repressive evil deeds of the Soviet Union”…. most prominently in the case of the Ukrainian Holodomor: the forced starvation of between 1.2 and 12 million ethnic Ukrainians, depending on whose estimates you believe.  In other words, a lot of people.  Duranty called that genocide “an exaggeration and malignant propaganda”.   

This appeared in” newspaper of record”, the New York Times.  British author Malcolm Muggeridge called Duranty: 

“The greatest liar I have met in fifty years of journalism.” 

 Duranty also made sure that the Soviets knew that the New York Times would “vet all reports about” the Soviet Union before it appeared in the NYT:

“effectively making that newspaper a U.S. branch of Pravda, for a time anyway.”  

Duranty won the Pulitzer Prize for his mendacity; a prize that the NYT refuses to return, and the prize committee refuses to revoke in spite of the now known truth of his actions.

Simon notes that polls have shown that sixty percent of the general public has little trust in the media.  He wonders who are the other forty percent?  Good question since it is clear that the media supports a movement that has murdered over one hundred million people, kept them starved, disease ridden, down trodden, abused and tyrannized since the terrible  beginning of that movement; The French Revolution.  What kind of person would have confidence in them? 

For the media to support leftist thinking is unconscionable.  The leftist media knows the truth and must be insane, otherwise how could they possibly support such thinking?  And now society begins to understand.  The people have been lied to by these powerful entities; they will not forget or forgive.  

As for the “Old Gray Lady”! I keep hearing seemingly conservative commentators who feel saddened that the Times is dying.  I think perhaps that insanity is an infectious disease in journalism, or perhaps they don't have the courage to be a rock in the current.  Heterodoxy isn't for the faint of heart!

No one can be characterized as a lady who, for all of these decades, has been guilty  of promoting such a vile cancerous philosophy as socialism.  She's not a lady, she's a hag, and much of the media is equally as vile.  When the “Old Gray Hag” disappears that will be a day for rejoicing.  Not only for ourselves and our children and grandchildren, but also for the 100 million poor suffering people who were slaughtered by the socialist monsters of the 20th century.  Monsters they supported!

This brings me back to my point.  What is the news worth knowing and why don’t we know it?  I know that it can't be a conspiracy to keep us uninformed, misinformed and ignorant because we all know "there is no such thing as a conspiracy".  And I know that must be so because my friends who don't read history books have told me so.  So then, if the answer is that there is no conspiracy, I still have to ask; what is the news worth knowing and why don't we know it?   

Gerard Jackson wrote this in his article Is Journalism and Treason Now Joined at the Hip?, he  notes:

"Treason is an ugly word and an even uglier crime. In simple language treason is the act of betraying one’s country to those who would destroy it and enslave its people. This definition is so simple that leftwing sophisticated journalists sneer at it. To them treason is merely relative with one country’s traitor being another country’s hero. This is the appalling moral and intellectual state of current Western journalism. The moral rot runs so deep that one despairs of living long enough to see any improvement."

On any issue of consequence I feel that it is important to know the history, i.e., the events and characters involved with the issue.  Tell me the history and I will give you the answer and the history of the main stream media clearly shows who and what they are.  And they are not honorable! Some of the most prominent people in the main stream media and Hollywood have declared that Fidel Castro - a man who is clearly a mass murderer - is one of the greatest men in modern history.  Are we to believe his crimes aren’t known to these people?

Now the next questions every clear thinking person should be asking are these.  What are they promoting and what are their goals and why - and based on their past history can they be sane?

Recommended reading.  Stalin's Secret Agents by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein.