Both Quentin Young and Studs Terkel were secret members of the Communist Party USA according to both Congressional Record articles and congressional testimony (Young took the First Amendment rather than the 5th instead of directly answering the question about his membership in a specific CP Club). Terkel was identified as a CPUSA member in several reports put into the Congressional Record by Rep. Larry McDonald (D-GA).
All of this information and much more on those listed in the article can be found at www.keywiki.org, search for their name in the Search Box at the left of the Main Page.
David S. Canter was not only a secret member of the Communist Party USA, but was also Soviet agent of influence (propaganda), and had personal ties to Obama, the extent of which is not known, but was confirmed by Canter’s son Mark)
Canter worked with Don Rose, another marxist leftist, and both were mentors of David Axelrod, Obama’s top political advisor besides Valerie Jarrett, who has some CP skeletons in her closet. Also see Keywiki.org on her background.
The rest in the list were veteran communists of several stripes. Sid Lens was a leader of the Revolutionary Communist League, and was the key intermediary between the CPUSA dominated factions of the Hanoi Lobby (Nat. Mobe/New Mobe), and the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party fronts, the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and later NPAC (National Peace Action Coalition).
There is sworn congressional testimony on Lens’ role in the 1969 New Mobe founding conference. (See: Extent of Subversion in Campus Disorders: Part 2, Aug. 16, 1969, Sen. Internal Security Subcommittee).
One of Canter’s colleagues in CP operations was Leroy Wolins, a veteran CPUSA member, the originator of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Vietnam, Veterans for Peace - a CPUSA front, and a CP conduit into SWP GI front groups during the Vietnam war.
Obama’s friends were the cream of the crop of the Communist Party USA and its surrounding support networks in Chicago, including the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights (including Frank Marshall Davis, Rabbi Arnold J. Wolf, CPUSA leader Richard Criley and other Chicago leftists).
See Keywiki for more on this whole Communist-Obama network as well as its’ leader, Trevor Loudon’s new book on Obama, taken from his columns at www.newzeal.blogspot.com.
The following link is to an old FR thread, about an even older conservative booklet called “The Revolution Was”, written in 1938 about FDR and the New Deal. It is ALL happening again. An excerpt (brackets are my comments):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts
Outside of the Communist party and its aurora of radical intellectuals few Americans seemed to know that revolution had become a department of knowledge, with a philosophy and a doctorate of its own, a language, a great body of experimental data, schools of method, textbooks, and manuals — and this was revolution regarded not as an act of heroic redress in a particular situation, but revolution as a means to power in the abstract ease.
There was a prodigious literature of revolutionary thought concealed only by the respectability of its dress. ......
To the revolutionary this same dreary stuff was the most exciting reading in the world. It was knowledge that gave him a sense of power. One who mastered the subject to the point of excellence could be fairly sure of a livelihood by teaching and writing [Ayers!, etc.], that is, by imparting it to others, and meanwhile dream of passing at a single leap from this mean obscurity to the prestige of one who assists in the manipulation of great happenings; while one who mastered it to the point of genius — that one [Obama] might dream of becoming himself the next Lenin. .......