FINALLY! | 2007-01-22
Alan and Richard finally give us full informationon Weinstein.
Now I ask you to try to find any of this on the Internet.
WHAT DOES THIS TELL YOU?
No, I don't want peopel to tell me what they would have said if I had never been born.
Whjat does THIS tell you?
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While sitting in the U.S. Congress, Dickstein was a Communist agent for the Soviet secret police, earning $1,250 a month for his treasonous services in the midst of the Depression! Appropriately, the NKVD's codename for him was CROOK.
Dickstein wanted to start a anti Nazi smear campaign in America, another objective he envisioned was the distruction of all groups he deemed right wing or most likly anti communist. Dickstein would later raise hell when the House Committee on Un-American began focusing on Communist infiltration in hight levels of American society, he made an acusation that the committy was infiltrated by facists. What saved his ass was the simpathy for the poor persecuted Jews and the socialist bias in the american press.
Dickstein was chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. In November 1933, Dickstein's Immigration Committee began official hearings into "Nazi" activities in the United States.
Comment by Alan — 1/22/2007 @ 9:16 am | Edit This
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A good account of Dickstein's work as a Soviet agent can be found in Allen Weinstein's "The Haunted Wood." Dickstein, who immigrated from Lithuania with his parents when he was six years old, was apparently motivated to spy for the Soviets more by money than ideology.
Though he was the father of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, he only served on it for a couple of years, and, according to Walter Goodman, a student of the HUAC, regretted his role in establishing it for the rest of his life.
Though Dickstein worked assidously for his NKVD handlers (who paid him a regular salary), they viewed him with a great deal of disgust, characterizing him in a memo found in the KGB archives by Weinstein's co-author, Alexander Vassiliev, as "a complete racketeer and a blackmailer."
In Congress, Dickstein was best know for his role as chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, a post that enabled him to increase his income considerably since his law firm, of which his brother was a partner, specialized in immigration affairs.
When Dickstein left Congress, he was elected to the New York State Supreme Court, serving as a judge between 1946-1954. As Weinstein notes, Dickstein's involvement in the spy trade "left no visible mark on his public career."
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