Posted on 04/18/2005 10:47:45 AM PDT by Liz
It's been over 50 years. Time to do it again.
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Freaking Communist traitors lost their jobs. Wah, wah, wah.
They should've lost their LIVES just like the other traitors, the Rosenbergs.
Problem is, 90% of the movies released nowadays don't seem to have an original screenplay.
I beleive the HUAC and later Sen. McCarthy as accomplished public servants.
INteresting article. Thanks.
Excellent article. Didn't know Gene Kelly's wife was a commie. Guess that's why he was such a left-winger.
Wait, where was Joe McCarthy's name? I mean, I know he was a Senator and thus not a member of the HOUSE committee, and his "witchhunt" was several years later, but his name wasn't in there at ALL! I mean, we all KNOW he just invented the "Red Scare" for politial power, right?!
I'll second that motion. Let's have at the liberal beasts.
"Didn't know Gene Kelly's wife was a commie"
I saw her on a special on Gene Kelly. She was his first wife and said that Kelly picked and chose his causes and considered himself a "liberal" democrat.
LOL
Credit goes to Ann Coulter for her perspecive on Joe McCarthy, and how he was right all along as supported by the Venona papers released in the early '90s.
BTW, even talk show hosts still don't know McCarthy had nothing to do with Hollywood. Glenn Beck had a rant on McCarthy a while back, showing he had no idea who he really was and what he really accomplished.
Hollyweirdos act like entertainers but they are subversive change agents.
Hollyweirdos thought back then---and continue to think now---that the rest of us just fell off a turnip truck and can't possibly be aware of leftist proselytizing via their movies, TV and music output.
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Lying for the truth: Münzenberg & the Comintern
Münzenberg was and is not a famous name, though this mans power had given him a potent grip on the workings of fame. Since his radical youth in 1917, Willi Münzenberg had been a largely covert but major actor in the politics of the twentieth century. As a founding organizer of the Communist International and a leader in the structure of MarxistLeninist power outside Russia, Münzenberg had played an especially influential part in the conspiracies, the maneuvers, the propaganda, the secret policies and actions that had led to this very spot. . .
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Münzenbergs true role in the world was a closely guarded secret, though in keeping with his particular talent, it was concealed in conspicuousness. His talent was for propaganda, albeit of a special kind. For Willi Münzenberg was the first grand master of two quite new kinds of secret-service work, essential to this century, and to the Soviets: the covertly controlled propaganda front, and the secretly manipulated fellow traveler. His goal was to create for the right-thinking non-Communist West the dominating political prejudice of the era: the belief that any opinion that happened to serve the foreign policy of the Soviet Union was derived from the most essential elements of human decency. He wanted to instill the feeling, like a truth of nature, that seriously to criticize or challenge Soviet policy was the unfailing mark of a bad, bigoted, and probably stupid person, while support was equally infallible proof of a forward-looking mind committed to all that was best for humanity and marked by an uplifting refinement of sensibility.
To create his networks of fronts and fellow travelers Münzenberg used every resource of propaganda, from highbrow cultural opinion to funny hats and balloons. He organized the media: newspapers, film, radio, books, magazines, the theater. Every kind of opinion maker was involved: writers, artists, actors, commentators, priests, ministers, professors, business leaders, scientists, psychologists, anyone at all whose opinion the public was likely to respect.
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The evidence is strong that two of Münzenbergs principal lieutenants, Louis Gibarti and Otto Katz, were not only Münzenberg-men, and so agents of the Comintern, but (probably without Willi knowing for sure) agents of the NKVD as well. Gibarti and Katz: an extraordinary team. They did know something about trenchcoats, and careful tracking of their artful dodging through the first half of the twentieth century will turn up surprise after surprise. Gibarti was an elegant but slightly seedy Hungarian, affable, multilingual, and outspoken. He looked, said Babette, like an opera cavalier. Gibarti ranks as a founding father of the modern mingling of propaganda with espionage and covert action. Though his modus operandi made him seem like a legalin contrast to illegalComintern agent, Gibartis perfectly legal organizations were pioneers in the art of doing secret-service business in the open. It was Gibarti, for example, who in 1934 guided a young recruit named Kim Philby through a perfectly legal front in Paris and on to Vienna, where Philby took up his first real job as a secret agent.
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In America, one might add to the list the name of Ella Winter, who began her career in politics being introduced by Felix Frankfurter to Lincoln Steffens in the midst of the Versailles Conference.
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After Steffenss death, Winter proceeded to another marriage that was exceptionally useful from the apparats point of view. This one put her in a leading position managing the networks of Stalinist fellow travelers in Hollywood, a long-standing special concern of the apparatus, with much attention from Gibarti, Katz, and many others. Winter met and married a very successful Hollywood screenwriter, Donald Ogden Stewart-a companion to Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos; a runner with the bulls at Pamplona in the company of the circle immortalized in The Sun Also Rises. Stalinism and Hemingway aside, Stewart was an attractive but malleable guilt-ridden lightweight. And at his side, Ella Winter was ideally placed for an active life among networks of Stalinist opinion in the film colony.
Ella Winter worked closely with Münzenbergs men, especially those who were active in Hollywood. She knew Otto Katz well, and Gibarti referred to Ella Winter as one of the most trusted party agents for the West Coast. Gibarti had every reason to know.
This is one of those things that isn't what it appears on the surface, like the 3/5 compromise in the Constitution-
If you look at the origins of the HUAC, at its inception it had the approval of the CPUSA because they thought it would be a tool for taking on the right- their position changed quickly when the spotlight moved leftward.
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Right--they act as if he set up HUAC, despite the fact that A) it was the HOUSE Un-American Activities Committee, not the SENATE (and he was a sentor) and B) He didn't really start his anti-Commie campaign until 1950...
Are the Münzenbergs men still alive?
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