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Frank Marshall Davis (1905 - 1987) was an author, liberal activist, Stalinist agent,
self-admitted pedophile[1]
and early mentor to U.S. President Barack Obama.[2]
Contents
1 Background
2 Nazi-Soviet Pact
3 Communist activities in Chicago
3.1 Jarrett
3.2 Bridges
3.3 Robeson
4 Communist activities in Hawaii
4.1 ILWU
4.2 Hawaii NAACP charter revoked
4.3 Honolulu Record
4.4 Communists infiltrate the Democratic party
5 International affairs
6 The future of the Communist party and Barack Obama
7 Further reading
8 Books by Frank Marshall Davis
9 Bibliography
10 Also see
11 References
12 External link
Background
Frank Marshall Davis was born in Arkansas City, Kansas December 31, 1905. Davis reported he had nine years
of elementary school, five years of high school, one year at Friends University, Wichita Kansaas, three and half
years at Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kansas, from September 1924 to February 1927, and from September
1929 to June 1930, studying journalism.
After College Davis went to Atlanta, Georgia and became Managing Editor of the Atlanta Daily World in 1931.
Davis became interested in the Communist party in 1931 during the Scottsboro case.[3] In 1934, he again moved
to Chicago, where he served as Executive Editor of Claude Barnett's Associated Negro Press from
1935-1947.[4]
In 1936 Davis was listed as a contributing editor to the Spokesman, the official organ of the Youth
Section of the National Negro Congress, a Communist front organization.[5] Davis was regarded as a primary
outlet of CPUSA "for the distribution of news and propaganda which the CPA wishes to get out to the Negro
people. As Executive Editor of the Associated Negro Press Davis is in a position to determine what news
releases shall be made by the Associated Negro Press to the various numbers of newspapers to whom it supplies
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news." Davis also was the Executive Editor of the communist publication the Chicago Star.[6]
His poetry and writings became popular during the Harlem Renaissance and during the African American Arts
Movement in the 1960s and 1970s.[7]
Davis met Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and other leading black
writers while participating in the federal Works Progress Administration Writers' Project and other
organizations.[8]
Nazi-Soviet Pact
The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 presented the most troubling dilemma for American Communists. It came on the
heels of the bloody anti-Trotskyite Great Purges in which many CPUSA members quit the party with
apprehension and fear over what the Party had become. Those who remained during the purges were, for the
most part, dedicated anti-fascists. However, with the coming of the Communazi era wherein German Chancellor
Adolf Hitler became an ally of the Soviet Union against French and British Imperialism, only the most ardent
Stalinists continued in the party who were willing to overlook, and justify, Stalin's murderous excesses. Among
them were Frank Marshall Davis.
On June 22, 1941, Soviet policy was rather abruptly forced to change, and CPUSA policy changed likewise;
from "The Yanks Are Not Coming!" to "The Yanks Are Not Coming Too Late!" shows how shallow and trivial
the subsequent CPUSA devotion to the war effort was. Dated June 20, 1941, it
Soviet instructions called for unflinching opposition to the U.S. defense effort.[9] Davis became an articulate
opponent of President Franklin Roosevelt's policy of Lend Lease aid to Great Britain. Speaking to an audience
of the communist front National Negro Congress in 1940, Davis said,
“Negroes and the whole American people are being called upon to 'sacrifice for national defense.'
Our country may soon be actively engaged in another war. Facing this crisis, the people are
forced to think and to act lest, under the wave of war hysteria, they be bludgeoned into
situations against their best interest.[10] ”
Roosevelt was known among communists at this time as an "imperialist war-monger"[11]
and "Franklin
Demagogue Roosevelt," but when Hitler turned on his ally and attacked the Soviet Union, American
Communists echoed new dictates of the Kremlin by abandoning isolationism overnight and supporting Lend
Lease.[12]
Communist activities in Chicago
Jarrett
Davis was involved in Chicago's South Side Community Art Center, "a meeting place for young African
American writers and artists during the 1940s".[14]
An outgrowth of the New Deal Federal Art Project, the Art
Center was a hangout for the "Culture Group,"[15]
a circle of Communist Party members and sympathisers
including Richard Wright, Margaret Burroughs, Marion Perkins and Arna Bontemps. Another center regular was
a young journalist named Vernon Jarrett. Davis and Jarrett worked together on the black run newspaper, the
Chicago Defender.[16]
Even throughout World War II, when the CPUSA "soft-pedaled" the fight against racism
the editorial policies of the Defender were virtually indistinguishable from those of the Daily Worker.[17]
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Vice President Henry Wallace (left) was
booted off the ticket by FDR in 1944
when questions about his mental
capacity arose; he ran against his
replacement, Harry S. Truman with
strong CPUSA backing in 1948. Vernon
Jarrett (right) had high praise for
Barack Obama's communitiy organizing
during a 1992 event sponsored by the
Chicago Defender.[13] Jarrett's
daughter-in-law, Valerie Jarrett, is the
Senior Advisor to President Obama for
Intergovernmental Affairs. [2]
(http://www.whitehouse.gov
/administration/staff/valerie_jarrett/)
Singer Paul Robeson (left) shortly
after the Peekskill riots. [3]
(http://www.trussel.com
/hf/pkphotos.htm) Howard Fast
stands on the right. Fast presented
Robeson with the Stalin Peace Prize
in a ceremony in New York after
Robeson was denied a passport to
travel to Moscow to accept it. [4]
(http://www.flickr.com/photos
/vieilles_annonces/3655546564/)
Bridges
According to Davis he met CPUSA Central Committeeman Harry
Bridges in 1945 while on the faculty of the Abraham Lincoln
School[18]
in Chicago, cited as a subversive organization by U.S.
Attorney General Tom Clark[19]
and again under Executive Order
10450.[20][21]
Davis was associated with several other organizations
on the Attorney General's List of Totalitarian, Fascist, Communist,
Subversive, and Other Organizations including the American Youth
for Democracy, National Federation for Constitutional Liberties,
League of American Writers,[22]
and the National Negro Congress,
according to the Reports of the Commission on Subversive Activities
of the Territory of Hawaii.
Davis, like Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, was in the FBI's security
index, meaning he could be arrested and detained in the event of a
national emergency.
Robeson
Davis stated singer Paul
Robeson, a secret
communist, was
instrumental in helping
Davis move to Hawaii.[23]
Robeson and Davis both
were active in the Civil
Rights Congress[24][25]
and other subversive groups.[26]
Robeson
invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked if he had known Nathan
Gregory Silvermaster, Leon Josephson, Louise Bransten or Gregory
Kheifits.[27]
Greg Silvermaster was the head of an extraordinarily
large apparatus[28]
of Roosevelt Brain Trusters working for the KGB.
Robeson also invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked if he had
ever been in the home of Louise Bransten. It was in the home of
Bransten that Bransten's lover, West Coast KGB Station Chief
Gregory Kheifits, met another unlisted[29]
member of the communist
party, J. Robert Oppenheimer head of the Manhattan project, who
agreed to share information with the KGB.[30]
Communist activities in Hawaii
ILWU
Upon Davis's assignment to Hawaii he met with ILWU regional director Jack Hall,[31][32][33]
convicted under
the Smith Act for conspiracy to overthrow the United States Government. The ILWU controlled the Honolulu
Record[34][35]
and the ILWU Book Club. Among the authors made available through the ILWU Book Club
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were Saul Alinsky, Howard Fast, Philip S. Foner, Carl Marzani and Victor Perlo.
Marzani, like Ariyoshi, was a KGB agent working in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Victor
Perlo headed the notorious Perlo group[36]
of which the full extent of damage done to American national
security may never be known. Perlo's book, American Imperialism,[37]
offered through the ILWU Book Club,
was used for brainwashing American prisoners of war in North Korean reeducation camps. Perlo always denied
being a communist, claiming he had only been "helping in my humble way to carry out the great New Deal
program under the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt"[38]
until 1981 when he was appointed to the CPUSA
Politburo and openly criticized CPSU General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Boris Yeltsin
for betraying Stalinism.[39][40][41]
Hawaii NAACP charter revoked
The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS) published a report in 1955 entitled, The Communist Party,
USA — What It Is — How It Works.[42]
The study intended to differentiate the CPUSA from "bona fide"
political parties after the Subversive Activities Control Act proscribed into law the following:
“The Congress finds and declares that the Communist Party of the United States, although
purportedly a political party, is in fact an instrumentality of a conspiracy to overthrow the
Government of the United States...the policies and programs of the Communist Party are
secretly prescribed for it by the foreign leaders...members of the Communist Party are recruited
for indoctrination with respect to its objectives and methods, and are organized, instructed, and
disciplined to carry into action slavishly the assignments given them....Its role as the agency of a
hostile foreign power renders its existence a clear present and continuing danger to the security
of the United States. It is the means whereby individuals are seduced into the service of the
world Communist movement, trained to do its bidding, and directed and controlled in the
conspiratorial performance of their revolutionary services.[43] ”
Without going into detailed analysis of Communist activity in the labor movement, among African-Americans,
women, youth, foreign language groups, or in front organizations the SISS report described a fundamental
CPUSA strategy of infiltration and subversion using divisiveness:
“it thrives upon promoting clashes: Between employer and employee, landlord and tenant, white
and Negro, native-born and foreigner, Catholic, Protestant and Jew; between the American
people and their Government, and within every non-Communist organization.”
Davis discusses his move to Hawaii in late 1948 in his memoir,
“I had also talked with Paul Robeson who the previous year had appeared there in a series of
concerts sponsored by the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU),
the most powerful labor organization in the territory.... I also wrote to Harry Bridges, head of the
ILWU, whom I had met at Lincoln School. He suggested I get in touch with Koji Ariyoshi, editor
of the Honolulu Record, a newspaper that was generally similar to the Chicago Star."[44] ”
Robeson, Bridges[45]
and Ariyoshi were all Communist party operatives. Davis was given a regular weekly
column in the Honolulu Record entitled "Frankly Speaking." When Davis' column first appeared in May 1949,
the Record boasted he was a member of the national executive board of the Civil Rights Congress, cited as a
Communist subversive organization by Truman Attorney General Tom Clark. Under the sponsorship of the Civil
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Honolulu Record editor Koji Ariyoshi
with Chinese Communist Party
chairman Mao Zedong. According to
Prof. R.J. Rummel, 38,702,000 persons
were murder victims of Chinese
Communist democide.[47]
Rights Congress, Davis signed a statement in defense of Gerhart Eisler, the notorious Comintern agent who
escaped jail for passport fraud by fleeing to East Germany.
Edward Berman of the local chapter of the NAACP sent a letter in 1949 to the acting National Secretary of the
NAACP, Roy Wilkins, stating
“I was at one of the election meetings at which one Frank Marshall Davis, formerly of Chicago
(and formerly editor of the Chicago Communist paper, the Star) suddenly appeared on the scene
to propagandize the membership about our 'racial problems' in Hawaii. He had just sneaked in
here on a boat, and presto, was an 'expert' on racial problems in Hawaii. Comrade Davis was
supported by others who had recently 'sneaked' into the organization with the avowed intent and
purpose of converting it into a front for the Stalinist line….
They create a mythical racial problem here. They agitate with the same fervor that the
Communist press does on the mainland. The result is discord and distrust, not unity.
…Already, scores of Negro members were frightened away from these meetings because of the
influx of this element. Only by a reorganization with a policy that will check this infiltration, can
we hope to get former members back into a local NAACP branch. We are going to have to have
that authority over here―otherwise you’ll have a branch exclusively composed of yelping
Stalinists and their dupes―characters who are more concerned about the speedy assassination of
Tito than they are about the advancement of the colored people of these United States."[46] ”
The national NAACP acted by revoking the local Hawaiian chapter of the NAACP's charter to prevent
Communists from taking over the organization.
Honolulu Record
During April of 1951, a national convention of the ILWU was held
in Honolulu. This convention was attended by Al Richmond, editor
of the Daily People's World and chairman of the press commission
of District 13 of the Communist Party USA. Richmond attended
meetings of the executive board where the policy of the Honolulu
Record, as an agitational outlet of the policy of the Communist
Party was discussed. Policy lines were set down by the executive
board in regard to the Record policy. The editorial policies of the
Record editor, Koji Ariyoshi, came under fire by Richmond in that
Richmond criticized Ariyoshi's policies as being deviationist. In
particular, Ariyoshi was criticized for not giving the biggest issue of
the current Communist line, the so-called "peace line" during the
early Cold War, proper emphasis in the Record.
A former official of the Communist Party of Hawaii stated under
oath,
“It is interesting to note that up until this time the
issue of peace was only pushed by Frank Marshall
Davis in his regular Record column. Increased
emphasis was given the peace line by the Record ”
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generally, since.
Davis was an outspoken proponent of the Soviet sponsored Stockholm Peace Petition.[48] The 1957 SISS report
noted,
“Strong ties between the Honolulu Record and Communist China have become increasingly
apparent....the editorial policy of the Record regarding the United States position on the Orient
has been simply a paraphrasing of the Moscow and Peiping views on the subject.”
Communists infiltrate the Democratic party
In 1950, the Hawaiian Communist Party went underground. Quoting Robert M. Kempa, a communist party
informant who agreed to cooperate with government investigators, an FBI memo states,
“In 1950 after the Communist Party had conducted a series of control interviews. Dwight James
Freeman known to me as a Communist Party Organizer, told me that the Party was being
reorganized and was going underground. Freeman explained to me that the Party was being
broken down into 'Groups of 3's' and that I was being made chairman of Group #6 and in
addition given the assignment of being contact man for my own group and four other groups.
Freeman advised me that Chairman of Group #10 was Frank Marshall Davis and I was to
contact him ....
Late in the fall of 1950, I started contacting Frank Marshall Davis in connection with
Communist Party matters, and relaying to him information received from my superior contact in
the Communist Party, either James Freeman or [redacted].
During a portion of 1950, 1951 and part of 1952, I continued contacting Frank Marshall Davis
and also transmitted dues for the Communist Party received from him to my contact above.
During the period of my contacts with Frank Marshall Davis, he advised me that his wife, Helen
was a member of Group #10. I was never advised of the identity of a third of that group, or the
fact that there was a third member in the group. During a portion of 1951 [redacted] took over
contacts with the Davis group but I resumed contacting Davis in 1952 and continued meeting
him on Communist Party matters until I left the Party in June of that year."[49] ”
A 1950 memo reports that members of the subversive element in Honolulu were
“concentrating their efforts on infiltration of the Democratic party through control of Precinct
Clubs and organizations. He said they were spending considerable time urging support for their
candidates in these Precinct Club elections. In this regard, he noted on April 6, 1950, that
subject [Davis] had been elected Assistant Secretary and Delegate to the Territorial Democratic
Convention...attendance of Davis at the Territorial Democratic Convention was verified by
[informant]. This convention took place on April 30 at Kalakana Intermediate School.[50] ”
Andrew Walden of the Hawaii Free Press[51]
has said the story of Frank Marshall Davis is completely
intertwined with the story of the Hawaii Democrats rise to power.[52]
Communists controlled the ILWU, the
ILWU controlled the Hawaii Democratic Party, and in 1954, union-based election campaigns launched the
Hawaii Democrats into control of the legislature. Walden quotes Hawaii’s first Democratic Governor Jack
Burns,
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“Every guy in the ILWU was at one time or another a member of the Communist Party of
America. This is where they got their organizational information and how to organize, and how
to bring groups together and how to create cells and how to make movements that are
undetected by the bosses.”
In 1959 Hawaii was admitted to the Union.[53] After Burns captured the governor’s office in 1962 the
Democrats created a one-party state unbroken for four decades until the election of Republican Governor Linda
Lingle in 2002. During those decades in some sessions sat as few as one Republican legislator. In 1976 the
Democratic-controlled Hawaii State Legislature passed a resolution honoring Koji Ariyoshi. Herbert Romerstein,[54][55]
formerly head of the office to Counter Soviet Disinformation at the United States Information Agency
commented, "this was the atmosphere that young Barack Obama grew up in...We honor Soviet spies."[56]
International affairs
In 1963 FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover made a hand written note in the file authorizing a direct approach to
Davis who had been under investigation for 19 years[57]
and had never been interviewed.[58]
During the
interview Davis claimed he was motivated by social policy and not interested in international politics[59]
yet the
record shows otherwise. Davis's column of January 24 1957 for example says,
“I received a copy of the National Guardian on Dec. 31 In it was an article headed 'The Negro
Press on Hungary and Egypt--Do hearts bleed for white skins only?' and containing a summary
of the opinion formed in assorted Negro newspapers...Because I think the opinions of the press
serving 18,000,000 colored Americans are of importance to the people of Hawaii, I am
reprinting the Guardian summary:...[60] ”
This was shortly after the violent and bloody anti-communist Hungarian uprising in 1956. The Guardian was
founded by KGB operatives Cedric Belfrage and James Aronson. During the Korean War, Guardian carried
false reports on American use of germ warfare which many American leftists still charge America with to this
day.[61][62]
Documents from Russian Archives prove, more than four decades after the fact, the United States
was the victim of a disinformation campaign.[63]
The Guardian correspondent who reported the disinformation
actually assisted North Korean interrogators in extracting bogus confessions from American prisoners of war.[64]
Shortly after North Korea invaded the South across the 38th parallel on June 25 1950, Davis wrote
“In addition to muffing the moral leadership we have given the colored people of the globe still
another count against the U.S. as a nation. The U.S. is considered to be a white man's country.
You may be sure that the spectacle of white Americans shooting down Orientals of North Korea
will not be ignored by the rest of the Asia and Africa who are struggling to throw off the yoke of
what they call 'white imperialism'.”
In his column of August 3 1950 Davis devoted considerable space in quoting from The Situation in Asia by
Owen Lattimore in an effort to show that North Koreans supported their government more than the people of
South Korea.[65]
In his Honolulu Record columns Davis regularly condemned the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, the North
Atlantic Treaty and routinely sung the praises of Kim Il Sung's North Korea.
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The future of the Communist party and Barack Obama
After Khrushchev's Secret Speech another generation of loyal Communists were again confronted with the
enormity of Stalin's crimes. As Ann Coulter stated, Sen. Joseph McCarthy "made it a disgrace to be a
Communist."[66] Singer Paul Robeson remained a lifelong denier of the Stalinist holocaust. Davis in his 1963
interview with FBI Special Agent Leo Brenneisen appears to offer some second thoughts about his work for the
Soviet Union. Davis states he would "consort with the devil to gain his end," and his end was the fight against
racial discrimination.
In Barack Obama's Dreams from my Father, the author disguises the identity of an old man named "Frank"
whose struggles the author identifies with.[67]
In 2007 Prof. Gerald Horne outed the identity of "Frank" at a
Communist party gathering and published in an article entitled, Rethinking the History and Future of the
Communist Party:
“At some point in the future, a teacher will add to her syllabus Barack’s memoir and instruct her
students to read it alongside Frank Marshall Davis’ equally affecting memoir...when that day
comes...a future student will ...examine critically the Frankenstein monsters that US imperialism
created in order to subdue Communist parties..."[68] ”
There is no evidence Davis ever abandoned his commitment to what Allen Weinstein described as "a murderous
and discredited ideology." In 1999 it was reported 3 million North Koreans starved to death[69]
in the Socialist
workers paradise Davis so cherished while others were eating grass to survive.[70]
Meanwhile, the people of the
Republic of South Korea, created with American assitance, have thrived and prospered. The Khmer Rouge - the
Communist government of Cambodia, exterminated three million people[71]
after the U.S. backed government
of Lon Nol[72]
fled the country. When the collapse of the Republic of South Vietnam forced hundreds of
thousands to flee the terror of the North Vietnamese communists, an estimated half million drowned in their
desperation to escape.[73]
In the final years of Davis's life the Soviet Union wanted to bring social change in a
new Soviet Socialist Republic of Afghanistan. One million eight hundred thousand Afghani's lost their lives.[74]
The United States actively opposed Soviet-Communist subjugation of the Afghan people. This is the record
of the "Frankenstein monsters" the U.S. supported and the communist parties they opposed.
Further reading
July 7, 1935: Moscow Orders first Communists to Hawaii, (http://www.redcounty.com/july-7-1935-
moscow-orders-first-communists-hawaii-0) By Andrew Walden, 07/18/09 NEW MATERIAL (added July,
2009).
Books by Frank Marshall Davis
Black Man's Verse. Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1935.
I Am the American Negro. Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1937.
Through Sepia Eyes. Illustrated by William Fleming. Chicago, Black Cat Press, 1938.
47th Street: Poems. Prairie City, IL: Decker Press, 1948.
Greene, Bob. [Frank Marshall Davis.] Sex Rebel: Black: Memoirs of a Gash Gourmet. San Diego:
Greenleaf Classics, 1968.
Awakening, and Other Poems. Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1978.
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Jazz Interlude: Seven Musical Poems. Ed. Margaret Taylor Burroughs. Chicago: The DuSable Museum
Press, 1985.
Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet. Ed. John Edgar Tidwell. Madison, WI:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
Black Moods: Collected Poems. Ed. John Edgar Tidwell. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
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Also see
Popular Front
William L. Patterson
California Labor School
Bruse Minton
Studs Terkel
Herbert David Croly
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↑ Frank Marshall Davis, Livin' the Blues, Memoirs
of a Black Journalist and Poet,
(http://books.google.com
/books?id=BabHjAEzkdwC&
dq=Frank+Marshall+Davis,+Livin'+the+Blues,+Memoirs+of+a+Black+Journali
printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&
ei=EHN_Supoj4y0A4qwje8K&
sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&
resnum=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false) University of
Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1992, p. 311.
18.
↑ Guide to subversive organizations and publications
(and appendix) (1951) (http://www.archive.org
/stream/guidetosubversiv1951aunit
/guidetosubversiv1951aunit_djvu.txt) United States.
Congress. House Committee on Un-American
Activities. Washington U.S. Govt. Print. Office. "1.
Cited as an adjunct of the Communist Party.
(Attorney General Tom Clark, letter to Loyalty
Review Board, released December 4, 1947.) 2.
Successor of the Workers School as a "Communist
educational medium" in Chicago. (Special
Committee on Un-American Activities, Report,
March 29, 1944, V- 82.) 3. Cited as a "Communist
institution." (California Committee on Un-American
Activities, Report, 1948, pp. 95 and 120.)"
19.
↑ FBI file Frank Marshall Davis
(http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/davis.FBI.File.pdf)
, Summary file edited by Cliff Kincaid, p. 11, 14, 16,
17.
20.
↑ Executive Order 10450 (http://www.archives.gov
/federal-register/codification/executive-
order/10450.html) --Security requirements for
Government employment.
21.
↑ The Summer (1938) issue of the The Bulletin listed
Frank Marshall Davis as Treasurer of the Chicago
Chapter of the League of American Writers. He
signed the "Call to the Fourth Congress, June 6-8,
1941, New York City," sponsored by the League.
(See New Masses, April 22 1941, page 25). Cited in
Report prepared from the files of the House
Committee on Un-American Activities for Senator
William E. Jenner, Chairman of the Senate
Subcommittee on Internal Security, October 20 1953,
FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.5 pp.9-11 pdf.
22.
↑ Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and
Outsider Journalist (http://www2.hawaii.edu/~takara
/frank_marshall_davis.htm) : Social Movements in
Hawai`i, by: Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D.
23.
↑ Report on Civil Rights Congress as a communist
front organization. (http://www.archive.org/stream
24.
10 of 13
/reportoncivilrig1947unit#page/12/mode/1up)
Investigation of un-American activities in the United
States, Committee on Un-American Activities, House
of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session.
Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. September 2,
1947. pp. 1-13, 19, 21-22.
↑ Honolulu Record, May 12 1949, v.1 no.41. p.3.
(http://www.hawaii.edu/uhwo/clear/HonoluluRecord1
/volume%201/v1n41.pdf)
25.
↑ Both were active in the National Negro Congress;the 1954 Reports of the Commission on Subversive Activities of the
Territory of Hawaii (http://www.usasurvival.org
/docs/Scope_of_Soviet_Activity.pdf) , pp.3-4 states, Communist
Reactions to 1953 Report. The Communist Honolulu Record
devoted an inside-page article to the 1953 Report and its columnist,
Frank Marshall Davis, on August 6, 1953 wrote about the
commission and the report. In his column Davis was guilty of the
usual Communist editorial dishonesty. The following is copied from
his column, and purports to be a quotation from the 1953 report :
"Nor has Davis confined his inflammatory racial propaganda to the
columns of the Honolulu Record alone. His story, Hawaii's Plain
People Fight White Supremacy, appeared in the November 1951
issue of Freedom, a tabloid publication emanating from New York
City. * * * Chairman of the editorial board of Freedom is Paul
Robeson." However, the commission actually reported : "Nor has
Davis confined his inflammatory racial propaganda to the columns of
the Honolulu Record alone. His story, Hawaii's Plain People Fight
White Supremacy, appeared in the November 1951 issue of
Freedom, a tabloid publication emanating from New York City,
whose treatment of interracial problems strikingly conforms to
Communist Party policy. The chairman of the editorial board is Paul
Robeson, an identified member of the Communist Party."
26.
↑ Testimony of Paul Robeson,
(http://www.archive.org/stream
/investigationofu0304unit#page/4497/mode/1up)
Investigation of the Unauthorized Use of United
States Passports- Part 3, Hearings before the
Un-American Activities Committee, House of
Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress Second
Session, June 12 and 13, 1956, pp. 4495-4497.
27.
↑ The American Communist Party as an Auxiliary to
Espionage: From Asset to liability
(http://www.raleighspyconference.com
/news/Haynes%20CPUSA%20as%20Auxiliary.pdf) ,
2005 Raleigh International Spy Conference, John
Earl Haynes, Washington, D.C.
28.
↑ Memorandum Boris Merkulov (USSR People’s
Commissar for State Security) to
(http://www.wilsoncenter.org
/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&
fuseaction=va2.document&
identifier=5034F6F1-96B6-175C-
9170648C02EA02F8&sort=Collection&
item=Post%20Stalin%20succession%20struggle)
Lavrenty Beria (USSR People’s Commissar for
Internal Affairs) (http://www.wilsoncenter.org
/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&
fuseaction=va2.document&
identifier=5034F6F1-96B6-175C-
9170648C02EA02F8&sort=Collection&
29.
item=Post%20Stalin%20succession%20struggle) , 2
October 1944.
↑ Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L.
Schecter, Leona P. Schecter, Special Tasks: The
Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness -- A Soviet
Spymaster, Little Brown, Boston (1994), pp. 190,
193.
30.
↑ Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and
Outsider Journalist: Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D.
31.
↑ The Frank Marshall Davis Network,
(http://www.aim.org/aim-report/the-frank-marshall-
davis-network/) By Andrew Walden, AIM Report,
September 1, 2008.
32.
↑ Obituary Jack Wayne Hall
(http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/09/13/news
/story7.html) , Honolulu Star-Bulletin, September 13,
1999.
33.
↑ What Barack Obama learned from the Communist
Party, (http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07
/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html) By
Andrew Walden, American Thinker, July 8 2008.
34.
↑ Scope of Soviet activity in the United States.
(http://www.archive.org/stream
/scopeofsovietact411956unit#page/n248/mode/1up)
Hearing before the Subcommittee to Investigate the
Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other
Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the
Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth
Congress, second session - Eighty-fifth Congress,
first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
(1956), pp. 2679-2681.
35.
↑ Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that
Shaped American Politics (http://books.google.com
/books?id=pNwEyL1b6XQC&pg=PA67&
dq=perlo%2Bhaynes%2B#v=onepage&q=&f=false)
Cambridge Essential Histories, September 2006, pp.
67-71.
36.
↑ Review (http://www.jstor.org
/sici?sici=0020-5850(195201)28%3A1%3C132%3AAI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4&
cookieSet=1) , Nancy Balfour, International Affairs
(Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol.
28, No. 1 (Jan., 1952).
37.
↑ Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
(http://books.google.com
/books?id=dIsmm_ZLHcIC&pg=PA128&
dq=helping+in+my+humble+way+to+carry+out+the+great+new+deal#v=onepag
q=&f=false) John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr,
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pp.
128-129.
38.
↑ The Economic and Political Crisis in the USSR,
Victor Perlo (http://mltoday.com/en/the-economic-
and-political-crisis-in-the-ussr-146.html) Political
Affairs, August 1991.
39.
↑ Lessons from Cuba, then and now, Victor and
Ellen Perlo (http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-
40.
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People's Weekly World, 31 January 1998.
↑ War and the US Economy, Vic Perlo
(http://web.archive.org/web/20050620045117/http:
//agitprop.org.au/stopnato/1999112015.php) Political
Affairs (US), July 1999.
41.
↑ The Communist Party, USA — What It Is — How
It Works (http://www.archive.org/texts/flipbook
/flippy.php?id=communistpartyof1955unit) ,
Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of
the Internal Security Act, United States Senate, 84th
Congress 1st Session, December 21 1955, GPO,
Washington D.C., pp. v., 15.
42.
↑ Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950
(http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode50
/usc_sec_50_00000841----000-.html) , U.S. Code
Title 50 Chapter 23 Subchapter IV Sec. 841.
43.
↑ Frank Marshall Davis, Livin' the Blues, Memoirs
of a Black Journalist and Poet, University of
Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1992, p 311.
44.
↑ The Cold War: Cold War espionage and spying
(http://books.google.com
/books?id=44cLamYUpWYC&pg=PA295&
dq=harry+bridges%2Bhaynes#v=onepage&
q=harry%20bridges%2Bhaynes&f=false) , By Lori
Lyn Bogle.
45.
↑ House Committee on UnAmerican Activities,
Hearings Regarding Communist Activities in the
Territory of Hawaii—Part 3 (http://www.archive.org
/stream/hearingsregardinhaw03unit#page
/2067/mode/1up) , Government Printing Office,
Washington, DC, 1950, p 2067-9.
46.
↑ R.J. Rummel. China's Bloody Century
(http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills
/NOTE2.HTM#PREFACE) , New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction Publishers, 1991, Preface.
47.
↑ Honolulu Record, August 31 1950, v.3 no,4 pp. 8
& 4. (http://www.hawaii.edu/uhwo/clear
/HonoluluRecord1/volume%203/v3n5.pdf)
48.
↑ FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, memo November
10, 1953.
49.
↑ FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, Report of SAC W.
Knapp, 11/13/50, v.4 p.43 pdf.
50.
↑ http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/main/AboutHFP
/tabid/64/Default.aspx
51.
↑ http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-frank-marshall-
davis-network-in-hawaii/
52.
↑ http://hawaii.gov/statehood/history53.
↑ The Education and Research Institute
(http://education-research.org/CSR/romerstein.htm) ,
Washington, DC.
54.
↑ Herbert Romerstein (http://intellit.org/alpha_folder
/R_folder/romerstein.html) , The Literature of
Intelligence: A Bibliography of Materials, with
Essays, Reviews, and Comments, J. Ransom Clark
55.
Emeritus, Muskingum University, New Concord,
Ohio. Published in 2007: J. Ransom Clark,
Intelligence and National Security: A Reference
Handbook (Westport, CT: Praeger Security
International Reference, 2007. [1]
(http://www.greenwood.com
/psi/book_detail.aspx?sku=C9298)
↑ The Stealth Candidate (http://www.usasurvival.org
/docs/Transcript_May_22_edited_version.pdf) ,
Edited Transcript May 22, 2008, Briefing on Barack
Obama's Communist Connections Featuring Cliff
Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein. Accuracy in Media.
56.
↑ GAFFNEY:Without America,
(http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/23
/without-america/) Frank J. Gaffney Jr. September
23, 2008.
57.
↑ FBI file Frank Marshall Davis
(http://www.usasurvival.org
/docs/Frank_Marshall_Davis_2.pdf) v.2 p.49 pdf.
58.
↑ FBI file Frank Marshall Davis v.2 p.58 pdf.59.
↑ FBI file Frank Marshall Davis
(http://www.usasurvival.org
/docs/Frank_Marshall_Davis_1.pdf) v.1 p.50-51 pdf
60.
↑ Cold War Revelations and "Progressive" Holocaust
Denial, (http://www.frontpagemag.com
/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=22440) Jamie Glazov,
FrontPageMagazine.com October 28, 1999.
61.
↑ Rethinking Nogun-ri Massacre on the 50th
Anniversary of the Korean War
(http://www.iacenter.org/Koreafiles/ktc-park.htm) ,
Sung Yong Park, The International Action Center,
New York. The International Action Center was
founded by Ramsey Clark.
62.
↑ Bruce B. Auster, Unmasking An Old Lie: A
Korean War Charge Is Exposed As a Hoax
(http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles
/981116/archive_005192.htm) , U. S. News & World
Report (16 November 1998), p. 52.
63.
↑ Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the
Fringe: Political Extremism in America,
(http://www.questia.com/library/book/nazis-
communists-klansmen-and-others-on-the-fringe-
political-extremism-in-america-by-john-george-laird-
wilcox.jsp) John George and Laird Wilcox,
Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1992,
Chapter 9, Guardian (NY), pgs. 125-131. (ISBN
0-87975-680-2).
64.
↑ FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, Report of SAC W.
Knapp, 11/13/50, v.4 pp. 28-46 pdf.
65.
↑ Coulter, Ann Treason: Liberal Treachery From the
Cold War to the War on Terrorism©2003 Crown
Forum, New York, New York, pp. 1-2
66.
↑ Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and
Inheritance (http://books.google.com
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67.
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dq=manipulate+words+so+they+don%27t+mean+anything+anymore#v=onepage&
q=manipulate%20words%20so%20they%20don't%20mean%20anything%20anymore&
f=false) , By Barack Obama, Random House, 2007,
pp. 97, 220.
↑ Rethinking the History and Future of the
Communist Party (http://www.politicalaffairs.net
/article/articleview/5047/) , By Gerald Horne,
Political Affairs magazine, March 28 2007.
68.
↑ North Korea 'loses 3 million to famine'
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/281132.stm) ,
BBC, February 17, 1999.
69.
↑ Citation |title = Starved N Koreans eating grass to
survive |newspaper = CNN |date = June 21, 2002 |url
= http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf
/east/06/20/nkorea.famine/}}
70.
↑ Human Rights Council (http://www.mekong.net
/cambodia/toll.htmUnited)
71.
↑ States Ending the Vietnam War: A History of
America's Involvement in and Extrication From the
Vietnam War (http://books.google.com
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lpg=PA480&dq=lon+nol%2Bus+relations&
source=bl&ots=30zoEH1nQc&
sig=7eLPXqF2s6Fgth34tx7M4nmGK7M&hl=en&
ei=uKqJSqedFZGKMtT7seYE&
sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&
resnum=7#v=onepage&
q=lon%20nol%2Bus%20relations&f=falseUnited) ,
Henry A. Kissinger, Simon & Schuster, 2003.
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↑ Vietnamese Refugeees (http://www.searac.org
/vietref.html) , Southesat Asian Resource Center.
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↑ http://users.erols.com/mwhite28
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