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...Communists' parallel activities were disclosed when one John Lautner, former security chief for the New York State Communist Party, took the stand for the prosecution. The police had wondered for years how twelve of their 28 World War II spies were discovered and thrown out of the party. The Communist informant, said Lautner, was Lieut. Miller, who joined the force in May 1937, and faithfully sent the party inside information. After he reported that the anti-Communist squad was being formed, the Communists managed to get four police-department members assigned...
...however, Miller asked Lautner to let him resign from the force: he had been suspected of Communist activity, had been shunted to a harmless police post near Prospect Park. Brooklyn, and was afraid his wife was about to betray him. Lautner refused to let him quit: if New York's Communist-dominated American Labor Party gained more political power. Miller might well have become police commissioner. The Communist lieutenant accepted the verdict, stayed faithfully on duty until the department finally gathered enough solid evidence to cite him for trial. But Miller disappeared in a flash after that, and last...
...York City, according to Dr. Bella Dodd, onetime national committee member for the U.S. Communist Party, the Communist-led New York Teachers' Union alone had 1,000 members in 1939. John Lautner, a party organizer in New York State until 1950, said that at one time he had had as many as 500 Communist teachers assigned to him to be "processed into the underground...
...open party. Of the people who seem to have left the party in recent years, it is estimated that one-third have actually gone underground; present underground membership is estimated to be at least 10,000. The party began special preparations to submerge in 1948. One John Lautner, a former Communist who was expelled in 1950, has testified that he was ordered to draw up an elaborate system for underground operations should the party be outlawed. Lautner drew up a familiar but effective scheme in which underground members were organized in cells of three, with contacts so arranged that each...
Full well knew he the dangers that were soon to beset him. One man to play at death with a myriad host of others. Ye wise and aged seer Merlin Lautner had clear envisaged for him the pitfalls that would of a surety bestrew his path. The field was full astir with the dread enemy, loud roaring for his pure blue blood. Summoning his last ounce of courage, and calling up for the final time the image of the virgin Lily Maid, he ran the gauntlet with a desperate rush...