I have long suspected Arkin is much like I F Stone, his work product is mostly manufactured in foreign countries. Stone as much as admitted this in the last years of his life after the fall of the Soviet Union and said of his Viet Nam journalism, ‘I wrote so much crap about that war’.
Stone was admittedly a paid KGB propagandist for a couple of years. Supported nearly every CPUSA AND SWP around.
Believe this was revealed in the SISS hearings of former Soviet agent Karln about 1972.