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176. Moscow Center to KGB New York, io April i95o, KGB file 86192, v.i,
p. 97, Vassiliev, Yellow #1, 46.

177. KGB New York to Moscow Center, 25 April 195o, KGB file 86192, V.1,
pp. 103, 107, Vassiliev, Yellow #1, 46-47.

178. Report on meeting with "King," 23 May 1950; KGB New York to Moscow
Center, 25 May 1950; Moscow Center to KGB New York, 25 May 1950; Moscow
Center to "Ilya" at KGB Mexico City, 25 May 1950; Moscow Center to KGB Stockholm, 25 May i95o; Moscow Center to "Bob" at KGB New York, 26 May 1950, KGB
file 86192, v.1, pp. 109-10, 113-14, 116-18, Vassiliev, Yellow #1, 47-49.

179. KGB New York to Moscow Center, 30 June 195o, Report by "Kirillov" on
9 June meeting with "King," KGB file 86192, v.1, pp. 130-31, Vassiliev, Yellow #1,
49-50.

18o. Moscow Center to KGB New York, 13 July 1950; KGB New York to
Moscow Center, 14 July 1950; Moscow Center to KGB New York, 15 July 1950;
Moscow Center to KGB New York, 18 July 1950; KGB New York to Moscow Center, 6 April 1951, with Yatskov comment of 7 April i95i, KGB file 86192, v.i,
PP. 140-41, 143, 145, 159, Vassiliev, Yellow #1, 50-51.

181. KGB New York to Moscow Center, "Proposal to organize assistance for
King," 14 April 1951, KGB file 86192, v.1, pp. 161-65, Vassiliev, Yellow #1, 51-53.

182. Ibid.

1. Prudnikov, "Report on intelligence in the USA," 12 April 1941, KGB file
35112, v.1, pp. 68-69, Alexander Vassiliev, Black Notebook [2007 English Translation], trans. Philip Redko (1993-96), 172-73.

2. Robert C. Cottrell, Izzy: A Biography of I. F. Stone (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992), 44. See also Myra MacPherson, All Governments Lie:
The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone (New York: Scribner, 2006).

3. Cottrell, Izzy, 63.

4. Herbert Romerstein, "The KGB Penetration of the Media," Human Events,
6 June 1992, 5-6; Andrew Brown, "The Attack on I. F. Stone," New York Review of
Books 39, no. i6 (8 October 1992): 21; Oleg Kalugin and Fen Montaigne, The First
Directorate (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994), 74.

5. Venona 1172-1173 GRU New York to Moscow, 19 July 1943; Venona 1313
KGB New York to Moscow, 13 September 1944; Venona 15o6 KGB New York to
Moscow, 23 October 1944; Venona 18o5 KGB New York to Moscow, 23 December
1944. Sections of the 23 October message could not be deciphered by Venona code
breakers.

6. Eric Alterman, "Redbaiting Stone," Nation, July 1998; MacPherson, All
Governments Lie, 311.

7. Paul Berman, "The Watchdog," New York Times, i October 2006; Alterman, "Redbaiting Stone"; Paul Berman, "Confound It," American Prospect, 4 Octo- her 2006, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=12o81; Eric Alterman, "All
Governments (and Some Journalists) Lie," Nation, 18 September 2006.

8. KGB New York to Moscow Center, 13 April 1936; KGB New York to
Moscow Center, 20 May 1936, KGB file 35112, v.5, pp. 212, 283, Vassiliev, Black, 23.

9. KGB New York to Moscow Center, 20 May 1936, KGB file 35112, v.5,
p. 285, 287; KGB New York to Moscow Center, i August 1936, KGB file 3463, v. 2,
pp. 41-42, Vassiliev, Black, 23-24.

10. "Agents: (3rd qtr. of '38)," KGB file 40159, v.1, p. 253; "Report on "Dan," 8
June 1948, KGB file 43173, v.6, p. 75, Vassiliev, Black, go, 101. "Biography of V.
Perlo" by "Vadim," 29 December 1944; "Vadim" to Moscow Center, 20 and 21
March 1945, KGB file 45100, v.i, pp. 45, 97, Alexander Vassiliev, White Notebook
#3 [2007 English Translation], trans. Steven Shabad (1993-96), 73, 76.

ii. Moscow Center to "Sergey," 1 June 1945, KGB file 35112, v.2, p. 135,
Alexander Vassiliev, White Notebook #1 [2007 English Translation], trans. Steven
Shabad (1993-96), 56.

12. Peter Moreira, Hemingway on the China Front: His WWII Spy Mission with
Martha Gellhorn (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006), 193.

13. "Glan" to Moscow Center, 1g August 1941; "Report from "Sound" dated
2.X-41," KGB file 35112, v.4a, pp. 481, 776, Vassiliev, White #1, 25, 29. Hemingway's China trip was January-May 1941, and the "2.X-41" on Golos's report is a misdating or a mistake in note taking (possibly 2.X-4o, 2 October 1940). "Glan's" report
of August 1941 noted sending a Golos report on Hemingway and was stated in the
past tense, "when he left for China we let you know the terms of communicating
with him in China."

14. Herbert Mitgang, Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War against
America's Greatest Authors (New York: D. I. Fine, 1988), 42-50; Moreira, Hemingway on the China Front, 193-95.

15. Moscow Center to "Maxim," 27 November 1941, KGB file 35112, v.6, p. g,
Vassiliev, White #1, 30. Report on "Argo," 8 June 1948, KGB file 43173, v.6, pp. 4142, Vassiliev, Black, 8g. In context, the dating of the contact in London as June 1943
may be an error for June 1944. "List of agents," 23 December 1949, KGB file 43173,
v.2c, p. 67, Vassiliev, Black, 81.

16. Moscow Center to KGB Washington, 3 July i95o, KGB file 43173, v.11,
pp. 187-88, Vassiliev, Black, 95.

IT "Ludwig Lore," in Biographical Dictionary of the American Left, ed. Bernard
K. Johnpoll and Harvey Klehr (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986), 252-53.

18. "Plan of work for "Davis's" station for the 2nd half of 1934," Moscow Center to KGB New York, KGB file 17643, v.1, pp. 20-22, Vassiliev, Black, 35-36. The
first public identification of "Leo" as Lore was by retired KGB general Julius
Kobyakov, "ALES/Hiss," 22 March 2004, H-Diplo (http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/log
browse.pl?trx=lm&list=H-Diplo).

ig. The various versions of Markin's death are summarized in Gary Kern, A
Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror (New York: Enigma
Books, 2003), 40-41. There is nothing in Vassiliev's notebooks lending support to
some suggestions in espionage literature that Markin died at the hands of a Soviet agency. Grafpen to Berman, 27 November 1934, KGB file 17643, v.1, PP. 39-42,
Vassiliev, Black, 37-38.

20. "Nikolay" to Moscow Center, 22 September 1934, KGB file 17643, v J, P. 33,
Vassiliev, Black, 37. KGB New York to Moscow Center, 8 September 1936; Moscow
Center to "Nord," 13 February 1937; "Nord" to Moscow Center, February 1937,
KGB file 36857, v.i, pp. 37-39, 58, 6o, Alexander Vassiliev, Yellow Notebook #2
[2007 English Translation], trans. Philip Redko (1993-96), 8, 12.

21. Moscow Center to "Nord," 2 October 1936; "Nord" to Moscow Center, 18
October 1936; Moscow Center to "Nord," 13 February 1937, KGB file 36857, v.i,
PP. 41, 45, 58, Vassiliev, Yellow #2, 8-9, 12.

22. Moscow Center to "Nord," z April 1937; Grafpen to Slutsky, 25 September
1936; Report on advice to "Nord," 4 February 1937; "Nord" reply to No. 313, 8 February 1937, KGB file 36857, vi, PP. 40-5,5-,56, 63, Vassiliev, Yellow #2, 8, 11-13.
Hede Massing, This Deception (New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1951), 199-205.
Notes on A. E. Vassiliev and A. A. Koreshov, Station Chief Gold, Andropov Red Banner Institute, 1984, Vassiliev, Black, 140.

23. Whittaker Chambers, Witness (New York: Random House, 1952), 389-92,
412-13.

24. "Robert S. Allen, Political Columnist," New York Times, 25 February 1981,
p. B6; Oliver Ramsay Pilat, Drew Pearson: An Unauthorized Biography (New York:
Harper's Magazine Press, 1973), 5-9, 86, 119.

25. KGB New York to Moscow Center, 27 January 1933, KGB file 17517, v.3,
p. 46, Alexander Vassiliev, Yellow Notebook #4 12007 English Translation], trans.
Steven Shahad (1993-96), 24-25.

26. "Information from Sh/147 re various domestic and foreign-policy issues," 27
January 1933; Sh/147 on "various issues," 20 January 1933; Sh/147 report, 19 February 1933; Copy of Raymond Moley message, KGB file 17517, v.3, pp. 28-29, 4749-57-59, 69, Vassiliev, Yellow #4, 25-27. Allen joined the army when World War
II broke out and served as a colonel with General George Patton. He lost an arm in
combat in 1945 and spent a year recuperating at Walter Reed Hospital. His journalistic partnership with Pearson had become precarious, Pearson bought his share
of the column for $45,000, and Allen resumed a career as an independent syndicated
writer. In 1881, suffering from cancer, he shot himself.

27. John Louis Spivak, A Man in His Time (New York: Horizon Press, 1967).

z8. "Tommy" to Moscow Center, z May 1930; "Tommy" to Moscow Center, 1,5
May 1930; "Re Amer. fabrications," 12 September 1930, and sample copies of Amtorg forgeries, KGB file 1186, v.i, pp. 76-94, Vassiliev, Yellow #4, 73-76.

29. "Charlie, Taras, and the source `Grin,"' circa 1934, KGB file 3461, v.1, p. 117;
A. Gorsky, "Failures in the USA (1938-48)," December 1948, KGB file 43173, v.2c,
P. 54, Vassiliev, Black, 10, 79.

30. "Report by `Grin' on Nazi activities," 3 October 1935; "`Grin's' line," with
handwritten note from "Nikolay," July 1935, KGB file 3461, v.1, pp. 140, 153, 15557, Vassiliev, Black, 11, 13-14.

31. "`Grin's' line," July 1935, KGB file 3461, v.1, pp. 155, 158-60; "Work on
`Grin's' line," circa late 1935, KGB file 3461, v.i, p. 241; "`Grin' was," circa late 1935, KGB file 3461, v.2, p. 165; "Center views `Grin's,"' 14 September 1935, KGB file
3460, v.2, pp. 1-3, 9; "`Grin's' information," KGB file 3460, V.2, pp. 29, 32; Vassiliev,
Black, 14-15, 17, 18, 21.

32. "Political and Diplomatic Intelligence Work in the USA," circa 1943, KGB
file 43173, v.1, pp. 36-37; Prudnikov, "Report on intelligence in the USA," 12 April
1941, KGB file 35112, v.1, p. 68, Vassiliev, Black, 46, 173.

33. Elizabeth Bentley, FBI Deposition, 3o November 1945, serial 220, pp. 2930, 66, FBI Silvermaster file 65-56402. Spivak discussed Panama, Mexico, and California at the end of the 1930s in connection with his exposes of Japanese and German espionage in Spivak, A Man in His Time. Venona 6oo KGB New York to
Moscow, 2 May 1944; Venona 694 KGB New York to Moscow, 16 May 1944; Venona
6o1 KGB New York to Moscow, 2 May 1944.

34. Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton, The Rosenberg File: A Search for the Truth
(New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1983), 366-72; Herbert Romerstein and
Eric Breindel, The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2000), 252; Spivak, A Man in His Time, 466.

35. James Maurer et al., Russia after Ten Years: Report of the American Trade
Union Delegation to the Soviet Union (New York: International Publishers, 1927);
"15,ooo Here Object to Rift with Reds," New York Times, 26 February 1935; "15,000
at Garden Protest on Relief," New York Times, 21 November 1935.

36. "Nikolay" to Moscow Center, 3 October 1935, KGB file 3461, v.1, pp. 13738; Moscow Center, "General working principles," 3 September 1935, KGB file
3460, v.2, p. 21, Vassiliev, Black, 10-11, 21.

37. "`Liberal' gave information," circa 1935, KGB file 3461, v.1, pp. 109, 111-12,
Vassiliev, Black, 10.

38. "Former sources in the USA," circa 1933-34, KGB file 17407, v.1, p. go; A.
Gorsky, "Failures in the USA (1938-48)," December 1948, KGB file 43173, v.2c,
p. 51, Vassiliev, Black, 6, 78. Absent from the 1948 list of Soviet sources exposed by
Budenz's defection was Owen Lattimore. Budenz never identified Lattimore as a
Soviet agent but stated that senior CPUSA officers had described him as a secret
Communist. Senator Joseph McCarthy, however, went much farther, identifying
Lattimore, an Asian scholar and occasional government adviser, as a "top Russian
spy." There is no mention of Lattimore in Vassiliev's notebooks. On Budenz, Lattimore, and McCarthy, see David M. Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense: The World
of Joe McCarthy (New York: Free Press, 1983).

39. "Former sources in the USA," circa 1933-34, KGB file 17407, v.1, p. 90,
Vassiliev, Black, 6.

40. J. B. Matthews, Odyssey of a Fellow Traveler (New York: Mount Vernon
Publishers, 1938), 259-68. See also Lawrence B. Glickman, "The Strike in the Temple of Consumption: Consumer Activism and Twentieth-Century American Political
Culture," Journal of American History 88, no. i (2001): 99-128.

41. "Charlie, Taras, and the source "Grin" (1932)," KGB file 3640, v.1, p. 1117;
"Center views," 14 September 1935, KGB file 3460, v.2, pp. 1-9, Vassiliev, Black, 10,
18.

42. "Mail," 2 June 1937, KGB file 3465, v.2, p. 320; Pudnikov, "Report on intel ligence in the USA," 12 April 1941, KGB file 35112, v.1, p. 68; We traced `Liberal,
circa June 1942, KGB file 43173, v.1, p.11, Vassiliev, Black, 34, 44, 77, 172-73.

43. FBI memo, 12 May 1952, serial 132; FBI memo, 27 May 1952, serial 139,
FBI Bernard Schuster file 100-1556. FBI memo on Frank Palmer, FBI Frank
Palmer file loo-34853 (NY file 100-82937); FBI memo on Frank Palmer, serial 236,
FBI Thomas Black file 65-4332.

44. George Seldes, You Can't Print That!: The Truth behind the News, 19181928 (Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1929); George Seldes, Witness to
a Century: Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBs (New
York: Ballantine Books, 1987).

45. Testimony of George Seldes, 1 July 1953, U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations, Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Govt. Print. Off., 2003), v.2, 1206-11.

46. KGB New York to Moscow Center, 1g April 1940, KGB file 35112, v.5a,
p. 512, Vassiliev, Black, 164.

47. "Report on Bruce Minton was received from Sound," 9 October 1940, KGB
file 55298, pp. 21-22, Vassiliev, White #3, 1.

48. "Note by Albert," "Information on Robert," 7 July 1945, KGB file 55298,
p. 253, Vassiliev, White #3, 23; Richard Bransten section, Silvermaster summary report, 3 January 1946, serial 621, pp. 444-45, FBI Silvermaster file 65-56402•

49. "Undated report by Sound on Bruce Minton," circa 1940-41, KGB file
55298, p. 20, Vassiliev, White #3, 1. Reports from "Informator," 21 July 1941, 5 August 1941, 11 August 1941, 25 August 1941, 1 September 1941, 28 September 1941,
6 October 1941, KGB file 35112, v.4a., pp. 408-21, 625, 627-29, Vassiliev, White #1,
21-22, 26. Several other reports listed as from "Pal"/Silvermaster were likely via -In-
formator"/Minton.