[caption id="attachment_7584" align="alignright" width="123" caption="Hugh DeLacy, 1940s"][/caption] From at least the mid 1970s, until 1986, President Barack ; Obama's nomination for Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, had a close personal friendship with; Hugh DeLacy, a Santa Cruz, California activist, and a life long Marxist-Leninist. Then Congressman Panetta and DeLacy exchanged letters over many years - almost all of which dealt with defense and foreign policy issues. Many involved requests by DeLacy for information, policy papers, etc, which Panetta went out of his way to supply. What Panetta hopefully did not know was, that in the year before this correspondence began,...