[bvw]

Until the Bolshevik revolution, we did not have large numbers of persons in America working for a foreign government.

That's not exactly true. We have enjoyed periods of "agents" British, French, Spanish, German and Mexican prior to 1911.

[DPB101]

Yes but nothing comparable to the Communist Party USA. In 1920, it received over one million dollars from Lenin. Nearly 90% of its members did not speak English. We have a cancer on our soil which was tied directly to Trotsky and his thugs who were sleeping, as attorney General Palmer said, in the Tsar's bed.