Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-11

The blueprint Tor the COM
bined detectives has been re-
Fourth Of Series.
vealed in lengthy testimony be-
fore the Subversive Activities
Control Board in Washington by
former American Communists
who were then playing Moscow's
game.
Comrade Stain, as ruthless as
one of the old khans behind his
benign pipe-smoking mask, en-
trusted one phase of his Ameri-
can campaign to Red general
and took personal charge of the
party purge himself.
Stains strategy to subvert
the U. S. armed forces entered
the action stage in 1928. BY this
time, testimony before the board
has showed, many American
Communists were receiving train
ing in rifles, machine guns, gren-
AIDES, bombs and guerilla war;
fare tactics at three Russian
centers, the Lenin Institute, the
Frunze Military Academy and
Red Army headquarters.
General Staff Project.
It was the Red Army general
staff itself which devised the
plans to attain Stains military
detectives in the United States.
Marshal Mikhail Tukachevsky
and two other general staff off,
GERS planned the venture with
Paul Crouch, an American Com
munist, in a room in Moscow's
Hotel Lux.
Crouch, member of the
American Communist Party from
1927 to 1912, told of the meeting
and its results in testimony be-
fore the board.
Marshal Tukachevsky. he said,
wanted compact forces of Com
munistS sent into the Army and
Navy in America, with the Pan
anna Canal as the first concen-
tration point and Hawaii, New
York City and San Francisco as
secondary detectives for Red
control of defense forces.
After long conferences and
minute attention to details, the
Red Army general staff pre-
pared the directives for the Sc
cret offensive within United
States armed forces. The Com
intern approved the directives
and dispatched them to United
States Communist headquarters.
Started in May, 1928.
Paul Crouch returned from
Russia in May, 1928, to become
head of the Communist Party's
anti-military commission. He
promptly set about the job of
infiltrating the armed forces,
establishing Is Communist dis
trictS for the project.
AS Crouch toured the country,
Communists dutifully began to
appear at United States Army
and Navy recruiting stations. AS
per Moscow plans. they got duty
in Hawaii, the Panama Canal,
New York and San Francisco,
thanks to service regulations at
the time which permitted re-
cruits to choose location of their
training.
In the MoScow-planned drive
against the American armed
forces, Crouch also sent 200
Communists into the National
Guard, ROTC and CMTC
units. Here the Reds played
their hand more openly than in
the ranks of the regular serv-
ices. Publications such as the
Red Cadet" Red Guardsman"
and Rebel Guard" began to ap-
pear in Washington, D. c.; New
York and Pennsylvania units.
At one time, Crouch met with
his National Guard Communists
at Fort Smelling, Mimi, to plan
revolutionary activity within the
organization. He set up the
Fort Smelling Rapid Fire" a
Communist organ that used the
slogan, Learn Whom to Fight
While Learning How to Fight"
Battleship Was Focus.
The U. S. S. Oklahoma became
the focal point for the Red drive
in the Navy. Communists circu-
larized the battleship crew with
Red literature and organized q
band of Communist girls who
received ship reports from Com
munistS aboard. The girls like
wise served as romance decoys,
inviting Oklahoma sailors to Red
parties and giving their all for
the Comintern.
Josef Stain personally over
hauled the leadership of the
American Communist Party in
1929 by expelling Jay Lovestone
Ben GitloW and others.
Gitlow and Lovestone, backed
by 80 per cent of the American
party, were arrayed in factional
dispute against William z. Fos-
ter, who could rally only 10 per
cent of the American comrades
behind him but who had long
been a favorite of Stain.
Despite their overwhelming
support from rank -and-file Com
munists, Gitlow and Lovestone
were expelled by orders from
Stain. Gitlow testified before
the board that the directive for
this surprising purge was brought
to the United States by Dengle
and Harry Pollitt, Comintern