Word: braden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news desk of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Carl Braden, 40, was a quiet, efficient copyreader whose work in the office never gave his employers any cause for complaint. But his work outside the office was another matter. Braden, a veteran newsman and former labor reporter for the Courier-Journal's afternoon sister, the Times, devoted most of his spare time to Communist causes. He gathered signatures for the phony Communist Stockholm "Peace Petition," helped direct strikes for the Red-led Farm Equipment Workers Union, wrote stories that ran in the Communist Daily Worker...
...Braden remembered seeing Alger Hiss's name in the report. He added an item of interest: "All that made a deep impression on me. Subsequently, I had a run-in with Hiss over Panama bases, and I could see how he was playing the Communist game...
...first FBI report, as recorded in his department's files. On Dec. 4, 1945: General Vaughan (marked for the President's attention), Attorney General Tom Clark, Secretary of State James Brynes; on Dec. 7: Navy Secretary (later Defense Secretary) James Forrestal, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden; on Feb. 20, 1946: the President's Chief of Staff, Fleet Admiral William Leahy; on Feb. 26: War Department G-2 (later Chief of Air Staff) Lieut. General Hoyt Vandenberg; on March 5: Treasury Secretary (later U.S. Chief Justice) Fred Vinson; on March 15: the chief State Department security officer...
This week the Brownell revelation continued to produce news as ex-Diplomat Braden said he did indeed get his copy of the first FBI report. While he recalled no references to White in the report, Braden said: "I darn well took care that anyone mentioned . . . was not in my office. The White part would have been up to the Secretary of the Treasury and the President . . . There were a flock of Communists in the Government then, and my guess is that there are today...
Foreign Uniform. For his coup de grace, McCarthy pulled out of his bag a life-size photograph of a man in a foreign military uniform. This he identified as one Gustavo Duran, who once held a "top job" in the State Department (aide to Latin American Expert Spruille Braden, 1943-46), and now works for the United Nations Secretariat. The blur of McCarthy rhetoric implied that Duran had been a member of the Russian secret police in Europe, and his photograph was right there to prove it. (What Joe actually said was: Duran was head of something called "S.I.M...