August 2, 2010
FBI Releases FOIA File on Liberal Favorite Howard Zinn, Reveals He Lied About Being a Member of Soviet-Controlled CPUSA…
The prominent "progressive" historian Howard Zinn, whose books are force-fed to young people on many college campuses, was not only a member of the Moscow-controlled and Soviet-funded Communist Party USA (CPUSA) but lied about it, according to an FBI file released on Friday.
The file, consisting of three sections totaling 423 pages, was made available on the FBI's website and released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Zinn taught in the political science department of Boston University for 24 years, from 1964 to 1988, and has been a major influence on the modern-day "progressive" movement that backed Barack Obama for president.
Although Zinn denied being a member of the CPUSA, the FBI file discloses that several reliable informants in the party identified Zinn as a member who attended party meetings as many as five times a week.
What's more, one of the files reveals that a reliable informant provided a photograph of Zinn teaching a class on "Basic Marxism" at party headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951. A participant in the class said that Zinn taught that "the basic teaching of Marx and Lenin were sound and should be adhered to by those present."
Bill Bigelow of the "Rethinking Schools" website said Zinn was "an activist-a socialist, a pacifist, an antiracist, who never strayed from his conviction that humanity was capable of making this a much better world."
That "much better world" turns out to be communism.
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H/T Weasel Zippers
More and more adherents to communist policies and philosophies will be exposed as FOIA requests are finally filled. Some revelations will surprise us. Most won't.
ReplyDeleteThe question is, "What are we going to do about it?"
I'd love to know how many FOIA requests there are pending for present administration officials.
ReplyDeleteSo would I. I'd also like to know who's doing the asking, exactly how long it's taking for the requests to be answered, and how many requests have been denied by order of the White House.
ReplyDeleteWould be an interesting research project, huh?
It would make a very interesting college research project. These days would probably get a bad grade for hitting to close to home!
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