Re the scholarship program for African students to come study in the US, while it was helped by those listed (Belafonte, Poitier etc), a lot of the controlling hands behind it (for reasons I’ll explain in a minute), were American communists.
The scholarship fund, according to some of its students and leaders, was dual purposed: to help educate future African leaders with western democratic ideals, and two push back against the Soviet’s use of scholarship to the USSR for African and Asian students to be trained (for many of them), as future Soviet assets and operatives in their native countries.
The key leader of the AASO was Peter Weiss, a German refugee whose parents brought him to the US in the 1930’s. He became a successful lawyer but he was definitely a Communist sympathizer if not actual member of the CPUSA. He was partners with William Kunstler (hardcore red and possibly covert Party member), Michael Kunstler (who died young), Morton Stavis (id. CPUSA member); Arthur Kinoy (longtime CPUSA legal fronts lawyer and well known within the “left community” as a Marxist - I’ve heard him at red fronts and organizational conferences - he is, also very smart and the law professor former FBI DIRECTOR Louis Freeh called his best teacher - “My FBI” autobiography, about p. 164 or so; and Weiss himself.
Weiss is the husband of veteran CPUSA fronts workhorse Cora Weiss, a leader of the Hanoi Lobby operations from Women Strike for Peace (Brooklyn), the National and New Mobilization Committees Against the War in Vietnam and its creation, The Committee of Liaison with Servicemen Detained in Vietnam” -COLIFAM, who tried to get POW/MIA family members to join the “anti-war/peace movement” in order to get mail from their captive relatives (See: Hearings on POWS/MIAs in Southeast Asia, April 1971, House Foreign Affairs Committee for one example of this), Hanoi visitor re bringing back POWS and/or mail to the US, and the help fund Hanoi fake rebuilding campaign known as FRIENDSHIPMENT.
Later she became a leader of the Disarmament Program of the far-left Riverside Church, led by the Rev. William Sloan Coffin, a hardcore communist sympathizer in his own right.
She was also a key figure in the anti-defense protests against US missiles in Europe to deter a Soviet invasion, the MX missile, etc.
She became a student intern in the African Student Support Organization, which was literally run by her husband, Peter, and later BECAME THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF IT.
This is crucial to know because she suddenly shows up a few years later as a key leader in the CPUSA-influenced, if not dominated Women’s Strike for Peace (WSP).
She was suspected of being one of the 101-5 leaders of the “International Committee” of the anti-VN movement, esp. New Mobe/PCPJ, which determined all protest and organizational policies, as well as who would travel internationally for them to Soviet, Cuban, Eastern Block, and No. Vietnamese “peace conferences” and “assemblies”.
The question I raise, without having any specific information either way, is - “Did this Foundation/Organization GUIDE Barack Obama Sr. into any government position in Kenya (he was an economist of some sort) or did Tom MBoya, the future leader of Kenya do it ALL ON HIS OWN, or any combination thereof?
A lot of coincidences in the lives of Obama Sr, Jr, and Stanley Ann Dunham (including the leftist church her father joined on Mercer Island, Seattle, Washington, and his later friendship in Hawaii with Frank Marshall Davis who definitely was a CPUSA member and ‘directed’ Soviet asset/operative (at the essentially “ordered” move to take over a CPUSA propaganda newspaper in Hawaii when the CPUSA was trying to take over the Democrat Party there (which was thwarted by WW2 Army hero Capt. Daniel Inouye and other Democrat liberals, with some help from the US Naval Command in Hawaii).
Lots of questions, some missing documents, several possible explanations for “coincidences” and one helluva mess about the Obamas.
At least Jerome Corsi and a few others here at FR have done a lot of archival research, trying to find documents that would help explain some of our questions. Their work must be continued, if only for the sake of an accurate historical record of Barack Obama and his family.
