The Secret World of American Communism : Documents from the Soviet Archives.

Contents -- List of Documents Reproduced in Facsimile -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Documents -- Glossary of Individuals and Organizations -- Chronology of American Communism -- CHAPTER ONE Background -- A Brief History of the American Communist Party -- The Clandestine Activities of the CPUSA -- The Question of Joseph McCarthy -- The Historiographic Debate -- CHAPTER TWO Clandestine Habits: The 1920s and the Early 1930s -- The Comintern and Covert Operations -- John Reed and Clandestine Funding of American Communism -- Julius and Armand Hammer -- Other Secret Communications -- The Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat -- Earl Browder and Undercover Operations in Asia -- Harrison George and the Secret Work of the PPTUS -- Agnes Smedley, Comintern Agent -- CHAPTER THREE The Secret Apparatus of the CPUSA: The Early Years -- The CPUSA Establishes Its Secret Apparatus -- J. Peters and the Secret Apparatus, 1932-1938 -- Rudy Baker Replaces J. Peters -- The Washington Communist Underground, 1933-1943 -- The Ware Group and the La Follette Committee -- Peters and the Washington Informant Group, 1943 -- Copying Confidential State Department Letters, 1936 -- CHAPTER FOUR The Secret Apparatus Branches Out -- The Secret Apparatus under Rudy Baker, 1938-1940 -- Fighting Ideological Deviationists and Other Enemies -- Weeding Out Internal Enemies -- Stealing the Files of Party Enemies -- Enforcing Ideological Conformity -- Max, the Agent Who Wouldn't Go Home, 1939-1942 -- Fighting Deviationists and Bad Elements in the Spanish Civil War -- The Surveillance of Bertram Wolfe, 1937 -- The Death of Albert Wallach, 1938 -- "Suspicious Individuals and Deserters" in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion -- CHAPTER FIVE Other Faces of the Secret World -- Ann Cadwallader Coles, a Southern Artist in the Secret World.

American Communists and Soviet Radio Propaganda, 1937-1942 -- Williana Burroughs, New York Teacher and Soviet Radio Propagandist -- American Students in the International Lenin School -- American Communists in Red Army Uniforms, 1936 -- CHAPTER SIX The American Communist Party, the Secret Apparatus, and the NKVD -- The Brother-Son Network in World War II -- The Brother-Son Network and Soviet Atomic Espionage -- Morris Cohen, Atomic Spy -- Recruiting Japanese Cadre for the Comintern -- Earl Browder and the NKVD -- Earl Browder as an NKVD Talent Spotter, 1940 -- Margaret Browder, NKVD Agent, 1938 -- Irene Browder, Commissar with "Emergency Powers" -- Earl Browder's "Back Channel" to the White House -- CHAPTER SEVEN The American Communist Underground Fights World War II -- The CPUSA, the OSS, and Soviet Intelligence -- Recruiting Veterans of the International Brigades for the OSS, 1941-1945 -- Eugene Dennis, William Donovan, and the Infiltration of the OSS and OWI -- Reporting on the American Embassy in Moscow, 1942-1943 -- CHAPTER EIGHT Soviet Intelligence and American Communists, 1942-1945 -- NKVD and GRU Inquiries about Americans -- Judith Coplon, Soviet Spy -- Albert Feierabend, Soviet Agent -- Edmund Stevens, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter -- Veterans of the International Brigades -- OSS and State Department Employees -- Elizabeth Bentley and the Perlo Group -- The Credibility of Whittaker Chambers -- CHAPTER NINE Conclusion -- Appendix A The Archival Record -- Appendix B Organization of the American Communist Party -- Selected Readings -- Index.