[Eva]

Witness , by Whittaker Chambers is important, but, Blacklisted by History picks up in the forties, after Chambers had broken with the communists. It details the betrayal at the highest levels of government in regard to China, Japan, WWII, and the IMF. The book explains how communists in the US worked to focus Japan's interests on the islands controlled by the US, England and the Dutch, in order to distract the Japanese from Russia, their traditional enemy. Other US communists in the government were helping the communists in China. It's interesting to note that it was mostly other Democrats who were questioning the communist involvement and influence in the Roosevelt and Truman administration. Most of the Republicans seemed too willing to go along to get along.

[yldstrk]

Have you read Witness? Because he breaks with the Communists about 1/3 of the way into the book and becomes..........a Christian! The polar opposite of a communist is a Christian, isn’t that fascinating?

It does sound like I should read blacklisted by history, though. I will put it on my list.

One thing that really creeped me out about Witness though was the line in the book about that in any town, at any time, someone could be snatched off the street, disappeared.