Posted on 08/02/2010 7:09:49 AM PDT by AccuracyAcademia
The prominent “progressive” historian Howard Zinn, whose books are force-fed to young people on many college campuses, was not only a member of the Moscow-controlled and Soviet-funded Communist Party USA (CPUSA) but lied about it, according to an FBI file released on Friday.
The file, consisting of three sections totaling 423 pages, was made available on the FBI’s website and released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from this writer.
Zinn taught in the political science department of Boston University for 24 years, from 1964 to 1988, and has been a major influence on the modern-day “progressive” movement that backed Barack Obama for president.
Although Zinn denied being a member of the CPUSA, the FBI file discloses that several reliable informants in the party identified Zinn as a member who attended party meetings as many as five times a week.
What’s more, one of the files reveals that a reliable informant provided a photograph of Zinn teaching a class on “Basic Marxism” at party headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951. A participant in the class said that Zinn taught that “the basic teaching of Marx and Lenin were sound and should be adhered to by those present.”
The FBI file also includes information on Zinn’s pro-Castro activism and support for radical groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Progressive Labor Party (PLP), Socialist Workers Party (SWP), and Black Panther Party. Much of the latter was in connection with Zinn’s support for a communist military victory in Vietnam. His dealings with the Communist regime in Hanoi included a visit to the communist capital.
I believe Zinn is Matt Damon’s hero as he is some other Hollywood types.... uuggghhh!
Interesting how this “news” took so long to come out... Some of us have been screaming about this worm for years...
The constitutionalists are starting to infiltrate the colleges and universities. Soon it will be our turn. The Era of the Left is coming to a close as the lies are exposed. One should fear being tagged a Leftist...
This is the same Howard Zinn loved by Hollywood Miscreants which should tell you something about him!
Is this wishful thinking on someones part? Most of the good Conservative Historians such as Mark Moyar are still finding it hard to get the respect they deserve for their work on the U.S. University Campuses.
I don't want leftists to be in fear. I want the academic community to have a healthy respect for conservatives and Constitutionalists and their contribution to American thought.
Join us or get out of the way...
Garbage in; garbage out. Rumors, innuendos, “Confidential Informants.” Suspect affiliations with labor groups, civil rights groups, and anti-war groups. A history professor who teaches courses in Marxism; oh, my. A war veteran who, when questioned by the FBI, denounces the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government and assures the F.B.I. he would report any such efforts of which he has knowledge. And at the same time makes clear, he will not name names of ‘Communist sympathizers,’ insisting in America, people should not be punished because of the way they think.
Scan the files for yourself. The sexiest lines in this ‘AccuracyAcademia’ propoganda piece are derived from unattributed statements made by so-called Confidential Informants. However, according to these same materials the author claims he reviewed to concoct this piece, in the 20 years of active surveillance of Professor Zinn and his family, no such conclusions as to membership in the Communist Party were reached by agents of the F.B.I.
http://foia.fbi.gov/zinn_howard/1142983_000s1.pdf
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