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Article: Book: American Communist Party Spied; Soviet Files Show Kremlin Aid to U.S. Comrades Dates to 1920 Funds for Founder John Reed
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- The Washington Post
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- April 12, 1995
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Recently declassified Soviet documents show how the American
Communist Party ran an extensive espionage network in the United
States on behalf of the Kremlin before and after World War II,
helping the Soviet Union steal American atomic secrets, according to
a new book.
The documents provide corroboration from Moscow's side to back the
view that the Soviet Union succeeded in using left-wing front
organizations such as the American Communist Party to penetrate U.S.
government agencies in the 1930s and '40s. They show that the
American Communist Party obtained confidential U.S. government
documents, apparently from secret informants and "agents of
influence," or sympathizers, in several ...