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Tseng 2003.10.24 14:06 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet 1 of 284 QUEEN RED SPY Tseng 2003.10.24 14:06 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet 2 of 284 3 of 284 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet RED SPY QUEEN A Biography of ELIZABETH BENTLEY Kathryn S.Olmsted The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London Tseng 2003.10.24 14:06 4 of 284 © 2002 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in Charter, Champion, and Justlefthand types by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Olmsted, Kathryn S. Red spy queen : a biography of Elizabeth Bentley / by Kathryn S. Olmsted. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-8078-2739-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Bentley, Elizabeth. 2. Women communists—United States—Biography. 3. Communism—United States— 1917– 4. Intelligence service—Soviet Union. 5. Espionage—Soviet Union. 6. Informers—United States—Biography. I. Title. hx84.b384 o45 2002 327.1247073'092—dc21 2002002824 0605040302 54321 Tseng 2003.10.24 14:06 5 of 284 To 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet my mother, Joane, and the memory of my father, Alvin Olmsted Tseng 2003.10.24 14:06 Tseng 2003.10.24 14:06 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet 6 of 284 7 of 284 Contents Preface ix 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1. -
By Leon Trotsky
Why Is Russia Mobilizing?... By Leon Trotsky Not Even the Three - Times - a - Week Kremlin Knows! L E T T H E P E O P L E VOTE ON WAR Moscow mobilizes and everybody asks himself, against Socialist Appeal whom? But at the present moment even the Kremlin doesn’t know. One thing is clear: the German-Soviet agreement facili Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International tated the defeat of Poland, but didn’t at all guarantee the Soviet Union’s neutrality. The Polish army proved to be weaker than many supposed. Now in Paris and London, undoubtedly, the VOL. Ill, No. 70 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I5, 1939 3c a Copy people are looking at the German arm y’s approach to the Soviet border with interest and without excessive alarm. The friend ship of Stalin and Hitler needs distance. The complete defeat of Poland can prove fatal to the German-Soviet agreement. Hav ing settled down on the borders of the Ukraine and White Rus sia, Hitler w ill propose to Stalin to give a more active character to his new “friendship” . Simultaneously, he can turn to Paris and London with a proposition to give the German army an op portunity to march farther east, and w ill show complete willing F. D. R. CALLS SPECIAL SESSION ness to bind himself, at the same time, not to raise the question of colonies for twenty-five or fifty years (Hitler gladly exchanges time for space). Under the pressure of double blackmail Stalin will have to make a definite choice. -
American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, No. 2, January 27
NEWS BULLETIN AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF LEON TROTSKY 22 East 17th Street, Room 511, New York City Telephone: GRamercy 7-6025 Denn ADeD SUZANNE LAFOLLETTE, Treasurer Evelyn Scott Anita Brenner Vida D. Scudder Paul F. Brisseadea Benjamin Stolberg James Burnham Harvey Fergusson Sam Jaffee Joseph Wood Krutch Margaret De Silver Norman Thomas Joha Chamberlain Lewis Gannett .Oscar Jaszi Harry W. Laidler Freda Kirchwey Carlo Treaca Sarah Cleghora Martha Gruening Horace M. KaUen William Ellery Leonard Joha Dos Passes John Brooks Wheelwright John Dewey Louis M. Hacker Dorothy Kenyon Ludwig Lore . Burton Rascoe Edmund Wilaon Max Eastman Maudbs n Wallr:ren William H. Kilpatrick Ferdinand Lundberg James Rorty I Charles Erskine James T. Farrell Sidney Hook Manuel Komroff Max Nomad Edward Aylesworth Ross Scott Wood This Committee Exists (1) To Safeguard Trotsky's Right to Asylum and (2) to join in th« Oraanieation of an Impartial Commission of Inquiry. BULLETIN No.2. ...... 357 JANUARY 27,1937 For an Impartial Commission of Inquiry! For an Impartial Commission of Inquiry! To the millions of workers and honest liberals all over the world bewildered, confused and demoralized by the succession For a Day in Court of trials in Moscow, this is the one demand that holds forth some hope of clarification and release from the doubts and By LEON TROTSKY questions these trials have aroused everywhere. (T lieu telegraplied statements appeared in the Manchester Guardian on Jan. 25 and 26) Let a group of prominent· figures, drawn from liberal and labor ranks, of unimpeachable integrity, weigh all the evidence, MEXICO CITY, Jan. -
Earl Browder F I Eugene Dennis • Robert Minor John Willia-Mson • Roy · Hudson • Gil G R,Een Resolutions And.· Documents I • I R
I . - > 20c FEBRUARY 1944 ' .. NATIONAL COMMITTE~ I PLENARY MEETING ISSUE ,. - • I ' ' ' AND PROBLEMS OF NATIONAL UNIT~ ' ·- ' . IN THE WAR AND THE POST-~AR I' • Earl Browder f I Eugene Dennis • Robert Minor John Willia-mson • Roy · Hudson • Gil G r,een Resolutions and.· Documents I • I r / I ' '. ' \' I , ... I f" V. I. L~NIN: A POLITICAL, BIOGRAP,HY 1' ' 'Pre pared by' the Mc);;·Engels.Le nin 'Institute, t his vo l ' ume provides b new ana authoritative 'study of t he life • and activities of the {9under and leader of the Soviet . Union up to thf;l time of Le11i n's death. P r.~ce $ 1.90 ~· .. • , f T'f'E RED ARMY By .Prof. I. Mi111. , The history and orgon lfqtion of the ~ed Army ·.and a iJt\fO redord1of its ~<;hievem e nfs fr9 m its foundation fhe epic V1cfory ,tal Stalingrad. Pl'i ce $1.25 I SOVIET ECONOMY AND !HE WAR By Dobb ,. ' Maur fc~ • ---1· •' A fadyal record of economic developm~nts during the last .few years with sp6""cial re?erence ..to itheir bearing '/' / on th~ war potentiaJ··and· the needs of the w~r. Price ~.25 ,- ' . r . ~ / .}·1 ' SOVIET PLANNING A~ D LABOR IN PEACE AND WAR By Maurice Oobb ' ' 1 - I A sh~y of economic pl~nning, the fln~ncia l . system, ' ' ' . work , wages, the econorpic effects 6f the war, end other ' '~>pecial aspects of the So'liet economic system prior to .( and during the w ~ r , · Price ·$.35 - I ' '-' I I • .. TH E WAR OF NATIONAL Llij.E R ATIO~ (in two· parts) , By Joseph ·stalin '· A collecfion of the wa~fime addr~sses of the Soviet - ; Premier and M<~rshal of the ·Rep Army, covering two I years 'o.f -the war ~gains+ the 'Axis. -
Trotsky's Reply to Stalin
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Opposition Group in the Communist Party of A m erica “Ic it necettary that every member of die Party should study calmly and with the greatest objectivity first the «.tv*,.,... „r .. , ,, opinion, and then the development of the struggles within the Party. Neither the one nor the other r a bTdone untoTtfo The wde. me publish«!. He who takes somebody's word for U i, a hopeless idiot, who can be «fopomd o f^ i* a ^ p k g ^ o f^ h T d !”_ u S MILITANT V O L 11. No. 7. NEW YORK. N. Y.,_APRIL_1,_1 ->29. PRICE T CF.NTS TROTSKY’S REPLY TO STALIN To the Central Committee of the Communist formed the vanguard of the proletariat into a rear awarded the “historical right” to Stalin. guard of Pilsudski; which in China carried out Party of the Soviet Union! If this blind, cowardly, incompetent policy of to the end the historical line of Menshevism To the Executive Committee of the Communist In adaptation to the bureaucracy and the petty bour and thereby helped the bourgeoisie to demolish, geoisie had not been followed, the situation of ternational! to bleed and to behead the revolutionary proletar the working masses in the twelfth year of the dic iat; which weakened the Comintern everywhere Today, December 16th, the representative of the tatorship would be far more favorable; the mili and squandered its ideological capital . Council of the G.P.U. Volinsky, transmitted the tary defense far firmer and more trustworthy; following ultimatum to me orally: To cease political activity would mean to sub the Comintern would be in quite a different posi "The work of your own colleagues in the coun mit passively to the blunting and the direct falsi tion and would not have to retreat step by step try” — he declared almost literally— "has lately as fication of our most important weapon: the Marx before the traitorous and bribed social democracy. -
Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: a Comment
American Communist History, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2003 Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: A Comment JOHN MCILROY Bryan Palmer’s critical commentary on the historiography of American Com- munism is eloquent and persuasive and I fully endorse the core components of his argument. Absent or insubstantial in many studies, both traditional and revisionist, a singular casualty of historical amnesia, Stalinism matters. A proper understanding of American Communism demands an account of its political refashioning from the mid-1920s.1 Moreover, Palmer’s important rehabilitation of the centrality of programmatic disjuncture opens up what a simplistic dissolution of Stalinism into a timeless, ahistorical official Commu- nism closes down: the existence of and the need to historicize different Commu- nisms, the reality of an “anti-Communism” of the left as well as of the right, the possibility of rediscovering yesterday and tomorrow a revolutionary interna- tionalism liberated from Stalinism which threatened not only capital but organized labor, working-class freedoms and any prospect of socialism. In this note I can touch tersely on only two points: the issue of continuity and rupture in the relationship between the Russians and the American Party in the 1920s and the question of how alternative Communisms handled the problem of international organization. Russian Domination and Political Rupture My emphasis on the continuity of Moscow control of US Communism is different from Palmer’s. What I find striking is the degree to which Russian domination of the Comintern and thus of the politics of its American section was sustained from 1920, even if the political content of that domination changed significantly as Stalinism developed. -
"Our Attitude Towards the Third Party," by Max Bedacht
Our Attitude Towards the Third Party by Max Bedacht Published in The Daily Worker, Magazine Supplement, Feb. 2, 1924, Section 2, pp. 5, 8. The radical comrades won a great victory at the Convention of the Workers Party [3rd: Chicago: Dec. 30, 1923-Jan. 2, 1924], was the joyful report made by the Volkszeitung to its readers on New Year’s day. And a few days later a leading article crowned the brow of com- rade [Ludwig] Lore with a laurel crown for this “victory” and added that the victory is still not complete and that difficult struggles are ahead. And the discussion thus far in the Volkszeitung seems to represent the heavy blows of the opponent in this hard struggle against the the- ses of the Central Executive Committee. May I remark that something more than an assertion of a report in the Volkszeitung is needed to make the world believe that the Fin- nish language group in alliance with Comrades Lore, [Alexander] Trachtenberg, [Juliet] Poyntz, etc. are all at once promoted to custo- dians of radicalism in the Party. Particularly Comrade Poyntz, who every time she regards her calloused laborer’s fists can suppress only with difficulty a fit of rage against the wicked intellectuals and “non- workers” in the Party.1 1 Bedacht is being sarcastic. Juliet Stuart Poyntz (1886-1937?), the daughter of a lawyer, held a Master’s Degree from Columbia University and was long employed in sundry Left Wing academic and educational ventures. Poyntz worked variously as a researcher for the US Immigration Commission and for the American Asso- ciation for Labor Legislation, as an instructor at the Socialist Party’s Rand School of Social Science, as education director of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, and as director of the New York Workers’ School of the Workers Party of America. -
Bread Upon the Waters
Bread upon the Waters Rose Pesotta 1945 Contents Acknowledgement 4 Foreward 6 Chapter 1. Flight to the West 9 Chapter 2. California Here We Come! 22 Chapter 3. Mexican Girls Stand Their Ground 34 Chapter 4. The Employers Try an Injunction 42 Chapter 5. Our Union on the March 49 Chapter 6. Subterranean Sweatshops in Chinatown 58 Chapter 7. Far Cry from ‘Forty-Nine 69 Chapter 8. Police Guns Bring General Strike to ’Frisco 75 Chapter 9. Some History is Recorded in Chicago 80 Chapter 10. I Go to Puerto Rico 89 Chapter 11. Island Paradise and Mass Tragedy 98 Chapter 12. Yet the Puerto Ricans Multiply 106 Chapter 13. Last Outpost of Civilization 114 Chapter 14. Early Champions of the Common Man 119 Chapter 15. Employers Double as Vigilantes 126 Chapter 16. Out on a Limb in Seattle 134 2 Chapter 17. Travail in Atlantic City 142 Chapter 18. Milwaukee and Buffalo are Different 151 Chapter 19. Vulnerable Akron: The First Great Sit-Down 160 Chapter 20. ‘Outside Agitators’ Strive for Peace 170 Chapter 21. Pageant of Victory 178 Chapter 22. Auto Workers Line Up For Battle 185 Chapter 23. General Motors Capitulates 196 Chapter 24. French-Canadian Girls Get Tough 206 Chapter 25. We Win Against Odds in Montreal 207 Chapter 26. Union Fights Union in Cleveland 215 Chapter 27. The Mohawk Valley Formula Pads 226 Chapter 28. European Holiday: War Shadows Deepen 237 Chapter 29. Graveyard: Boston is Boston 247 Chapter 30. Return Engagement in Los Angeles 259 Chapter 31. Back in the American Federation of Labor 270 Chapter 32. -
Communist Candidate and Joseph Brahdy
Special New York Campaign Edition The DAILY WORKER Raises Join the Growing Ranks of the Standard for a Workers’ Worker Correspondents of ( and Farmers’ Government The DAILY WORKER! THE Bntared at Second-class matter September 21, 1823, at the Post Office Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. DMDT WORKER.at In Chicago, by mall, |g.oo per year Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Vol. 111. No. 214. Subscription Rates'. Outside Chicago, by mall, $6.00 per year. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1926 PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, *ll. Price 3 Cent* BIG% RALLY OPENS\ N. Y. CAMPAIGNw Dunne Stresses MORE FUNDS ARE Candidate for Governor Gitlow, Dunne and NEEDED IN NEW Unity As Slogan YORK CAMPAIGN Others to Speak at Members Should Sell Mass Meet Friday In N. Y. Election Special Stamps On Friday evening, Sept. 24, at 8 p. m., the Workers (Com- Comrades: By HARRY M. WINITSKY, munist) Party will officially open its campaign in New York at Workers The (Communist) Party of the State of New York has Campaign Manager. its official ratification meeting. This ratification meeting will be me its (elected as candidate for United States senator. In accepting The campaign committee of the the opening gun in the Communist campaign in New York. The this I do so with the knowledge that our Party j honor, represents and Workers (Communist) Party of Dis- speakers at this meeting, in addition to Benjamin Gitlow, candi- Mights uncompromisingly for the interests of the and larm- workers trict 2 has outlined a very big cam- date for Governor, will be William F. -
Soviet Toilers Greet Moscow Regional Conference
Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. FRIDAY. JANUARY 19, 1934 Daily Mr. Qreen On Fascism Chicago Workers to “You'se Guys Don’t Know When You Got It Soft” —By Burch Foreign Policy -IkTUI «UI 5.4. (StCTION Os COMMUNIST EDHEN WILLIAM GREEN, president Os the American COMMUNIST MNTT U INTI«N»nOMI> " j Federation of Labor, raises his hands in a gesture “America's Only Working Class Daily Newspaper'' Sees U. S. of horror against Hitler’s labor code, we cannot fail Greet Delegates on Body FOUNDED 1924 but to observe that this gentleman's own hands have ! EXCEPT BY THE ” PUBLISHED DAILY. SUNDAY. fascist stains on them. Way to RS.U. Meet 7; WarWithJapan COMPROD AILY PUBLISHING CO., TNC., 50 East 13th On the publication of the German Fascist labor Street, New York. N. Y". laws, decreeing formally the end of all trade unions j 30 from Middle We*t Tokyo Policy Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7954 and the absolute submission of the workers to the j Threatens Nazi conditions of wages and Mr Cable Address: "Daiv.orfc," New York, N. Y. conditions, Green j WillLeave Soon; Chicago U.S. Hegemony in China, V«-*shin*»n Bureau: Room 054, National Press Building. issued a strongly worded statement. 14th and p. St.. Washington, D. C. Send-Off Jan. 19 Pacific, It Reports He declared that Hitler’s labor signified ! Subscription Rates: code the “enslavement and autocratic control” for the German | NEW YORK.—A bus-load currying B; Mail: (except Manhattan Bronx', t rear, and *6.00: delegates Chicago organiza- WASHINGTON, Jan. -
Communists Absorb Selves: “Lefts” Pick Still Another Alias in Drive to Pack St
New Leader: Communists Absorb Selves [May 24, 1924] 1 Communists Absorb Selves: “Lefts” Pick Still Another Alias In Drive to Pack St. Paul Convention. Unsigned news report in The New Leader [New York], v. 1, no. 19 (May 24, 1924), pg. 1. SCHENECTADY— A new “Labor Party” nist Party — as well as local groups, Left wings of consisting of Communists united with Commu- other organizations, and fraternal bodies. Mr. nists and consolidated, federated, amalgamated, J.A.H. Hopkins, of the “Committee of 48,” who and joined with Communists, was launched here is working hard to organize a “Liberal” party op- Sunday [May 18, 1924] when a group of Com- posed to a class party, was also there. munists met, declared themselves the “United The managing committee had sent a speaker Farmer-Labor Party of New York State,” and un- to the Schenectady Trades Assembly to get them dertook to get delegates elected to the St. Paul to send a delegate. After a lengthy debate, the re- convention of June 17, in addition to the delegates quest was turned down, only one delegate voting the Communists have already elected under vari- against a motion to “receive and file” the invita- ous other aliases. tion. The gathering consisted of 92 delegates, The convention, so far as is known, did not mostly well known for their activity in the Com- have a single delegate from a bona fide Labor or- munist movement and known to be actively en- ganization. gaged in the attempt to multiply organizations in The convention elected an executive of 16 order to “capture” and split the St. -
Volume II September-October 1918 No. 4
TIE CM? STNKMIE Devoted to International Socialism Vol. II SEPTEMBER—OCTOBER, 1918 No. 4 An Open Letter to American Liberals By SANTERI NUORTEVA Reconstruction in Russia A Lesson in practical Socialism Armed Peace on the Pacific By SEN KATAYAMA Laborism and Socialism By LOUIS C. FRAINA V Price, 25 Cents SOCIAUST PUBLICATION SOCIETY 431 PULASKI ST., BROOKLYN, N. Y. THE CLASS STRUGGLE Iff Devoted to International Socialism. Vol. II SEPTEMBER—OCTOBER, 1918 No. 4 PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 431 Pulasky Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Issued Every Two Months— 25^ a Copy; $1.50 a Year Editor.: LOUIS C. FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE CONTENTS VOL. II SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1918 No. 4 Page The I. W. W. Trial By LudwJg Lx>re 377—383 The I. W. W. Trial Soviet Russia Speaks to Britain By LUDWIG LORE By Maxim Litvinoff 384—387 Sixty-five minutes of "deliberation," and the jury brought Armed Peace on the Pacific in a verdict of "guilty" on all four counts against all of the 101 defendants in the courtroom. And at that, this polite pause By Sen Katayama 388—404 of one hour and five minutes was nothing more than a matter of form. As soon as Judge Landis had finished his instruc- The Chief Task of Our Day tions to the jury, the foreman of the jury might have honestly By N. Lenin 405—409 declared: "Will it please the court. The jury agrees to a ver- dict of guilty on all counts!" Laborism and Socialism It is this that makes us so furious when we hear from the By Louis C.