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...Louis Budenz, glancing warily right & left, began testifying in a casual tone. He retold the history of his own ten years as Communist Party functionary and managing editor of the Daily Worker. He mentioned the Institute of Pacific Relations, which was not, he added, a Communist organization but one that had been infiltrated by Communists. "First there was Frederick Vanderbilt Field," said Budenz. "With him was associated Philip Jaffe, who was connected with Field surreptitiously in the publication of China Today . . . Mr. Jaffe and Mr. Field are to my knowledge Soviet espionage agents. In this cell was also Owen Lattimore...
Zeal & Conspiracies. There was a conspiracy, said Budenz, designed to influence U.S. policy toward China. "Mr. Lattimore can be placed in that conspiracy." Budenz testified that he did not know Lattimore, had never met him. But Budenz testified to U.S. Politburo meetings that he himself had attended. At a 1937 meeting, said Budenz, "Field commended Mr. Lattimore's zeal in seeing that Communists were placed as writers in Pacific Affairs ... It was agreed that Mr. Lattimore should be given general direction of organizing the writers and influencing the writers in representing the Chinese Communists as agrarian reformers...
Lattimore's name was one of perhaps 1,000 which Budenz, as the Worker's managing editor, had to keep in his head because to print them would risk disclosure. They were not "small fry" but "large-sized" individuals whom the Worker was to treat with respect. Politburo instructions were issued on onionskin documents "so secret that we were instructed not to burn them, but to tear them in small pieces and destroy them through the toilet." In these documents, "L or XL in Far Eastern affairs referred to Mr. Lattimore. I was so advised by Jack Stachel...
...truth of charges of Communist infiltration and influence in the State Department proceeds, it becomes increasingly apparent that strict legal technicalities cannot be allowed unduly to limit this vitally important inquiry . . . We hope that neither he (Lattimore) nor his counsel will fall back upon mere objection to (Budenz's charges) as hearsay evidence...
...full documents from which he read scattered excerpts. "Regardless of whether any Senator may disagree with me," he announced defiantly, "that is the procedure which I intend to follow." But, as usual, the names were not long in leaking out. The ex-Communist was reported to be Louis Budenz, onetime editor of the Daily Worker, who now teaches at Fordham University. The general supposedly was the Voice of America's Russian expert, Alexander Barmine, who resigned as Russian charge d'affaires at Athens in 1937 rather than return to Moscow during the purge trials...