[Brugmansian]

Just remembered a direct link between ACLU founder Roger Baldwin and Soviet espionage. He toured the country with Michael Whitney Straight, the only American in the Cambridge spy ring. Straight’s handlers put him in contact with Baldwin.

[lentulusgracchus]

....Michael Whitney Straight, the only American in the Cambridge spy ring.

If he was involved with the Cambridge ring, then he wasn't all that "straight".

Straight’s handlers put him in contact with Baldwin.

That implies that Baldwin independently had Chekist hoods on his Rolodex and suggests that he had already gone to work for them.