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Paul Crouch (activist)

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Paul Crouch
Born
Paul Crouch

(1903-06-24)June 24, 1903
DiedNovember 18, 1955(1955-11-18) (aged 52)
NationalityAmerican
SpouseSylvia Crouch[1]
Espionage activity
AllegianceUSSR, USA
Service years1924-1942 (CPUSA), 1949-1954 (U.S. Department of Justice)

Paul Crouch /pʊəl kraʊtʃ/ (June 24, 1903 – November 18, 1955) was a communist activist and then paid government informer regarding communist infiltration in the U.S. federal government. Crouch biographer Gregory Taylor has called him a "naïve, ill-educated recruit" to the Communist Party.[2] Oppenheimer biographers Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin have claimed that he was the "most highly paid" informer for the Justice Department in 1951–1952.[3]

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Malala Yousafzai is a teenager from the Swat Valley of Pakistan, a region bordering northeast Afghanistan, a place defined by high mountains, green meadows, clear waters and bloody conflict. By the age of 12, Malala was an activist. In 2009, she wrote a diary for the BBC which described the atrocious deeds of the Taliban and advocated equal opportunities and education for women. In 2011, Malala was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Price and, in December of that year, received Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize for her efforts. She also received death threats. Malala was repeatedly warned by the Taliban to be silent. To immediately discontinue her public criticisms and to stop speaking out for the rights of an obviously inferior gender. In the eyes of the Taliban, Malala and all women were to submit and accept their place in the order of things. But Malala was not silent. On October 9th, 2012, as Malala Yousafzai and other girl students were riding home from school, armed gunmen halted the vehicle and opened fire. Two other girls were seriously wounded. Malala was shot in the head. At the age of 15, for the terrible crime of insisting that girls had the right to get an education, to better themselves, to break the cultural shackles which imprisoned them, Malala Yousafzai was the enemy. To the Pakistani Taliban, her words were as dangerous as any weapon of warfare, because they challenged the order of things, because they insisted that fanatical men did not deserve to be the masters of her world, because they were spoken by a defiant, free, female voice. For this, the Pakistani Taliban declared war on a little girl because she was “the symbol of the infidels and obscenity.”   But Malala did not die. She escaped death by inches, and her recovery has inspired millions across the planet. Among the first public photos of Malala’s recovery is this one, the young girl reading a book a symbol of the very education the Taliban wishes to deny. Schools have been renamed for her. Petitions for girls’ education are being circulated in her honor. And for the moment, millions of eyes are opened to the brutal, cowardly, oppressive cultures that seek to keep women’s rights, to keep human rights, under their boot. Malala Yousafzai’s story is a compelling one. Unfortunately, it is not a new story. Every day, atrocities like this are committed around the world. And for thousands of years, tyrants have been terrified that those under their control will rise up and wield the most dangerous weapon of all: an idea. This is a critical moment. This horrific act of violence and oppression charges us to take a long, hard look at things and decide that we cannot, we will not stand quietly as our fellow human beings are tortured and executed for the crime of thinking for themselves. That we refuse to be threatened into submission. And that we will not stop fighting until those oppressed are physically and intellectually free. Thank you, Malala, for showing us how powerful a single voice can be, for providing an example of real courage, and for reminding us that the fight for human rights is not the responsibility of any one person, but is instead the responsibility of us all.

Background

Paul Crouch was born in Moravian Falls, North Carolina, on June 24, 1903.[2][4]

Career

Communism

Crouch was a worker, secretary, and newspaper editor. In April 1924, he joined the U.S. Army.[4] While stationed in Hawaii, he formed a Hawaiian Communist League (1924–1927) with 75 other soldiers and supported a local strike on a sugar plantation. On February 17, 1925, the military arrested the group and singled out Crouch as their leader. After discharging the others, they sentenced him to 40 years of hard labor.[2]

Crouch contacted Upton Sinclair, who gained support from the Daily Worker newspaper and the International Labor Defense (ILD), both affiliates of the nascent Communist Party. Thanks to the efforts of ILD lawyer Austin Lewis, Crouch served another 24 months in Alcatraz on a commuted three-year sentence.[4] Crouch emerged on June 1, 1927, as a "national cause célèbre" to the Communist Party, thanks to the Daily Worker.[2]

Crouch moved to New York City, where he joined the Workers Party of America. He worked at the Daily Worker, where he met Whittaker Chambers on staff.[4]

The Party sent him with George Mink on a mission to Moscow from December 1927 to April 1928.[4] He attended the Sixth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Comintern. He attended what he later called the "Frunze Institute." In Moscow, he met Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Lenin's wife Nadezhda Krupskaya, Klara Zetkin, and "Big" Bill Haywood.[2] He also meet Sam Darcy there.[4]

Crouch returned from Moscow, charged with fomenting national self-determination of African Americans in the "Black Belt" of the American South — from the states of Maryland to Texas. Practically speaking, the American party supported African Americans legally (see Scottsboro Case) but did not go so far as to promote national self-determination.[2]

Following the defeat of the CPUSA ticket for the 1928 Presidential Election of William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, Crouch toured the South but found little support except in North Carolina. He supported the 1929 Loray Mill strike in Gastonia, North Carolina. He supported the National Textile Workers’ Union (NTWU, now TWUA).[2] He also worked on a strike in Norfolk, Virginia, under the name "Fred Allen."[4]

He later claimed to have served the CPUSA as:

  • 1933–1934: Utah state organizer
  • 1934–1937: Carolina state organizer
  • 1938–1939: Alabama state organizer (and editor of the ‘’New South’’)
  • 1939–1941: Tennessee state organizer
  • 1941–1942: Alameda Country, California, organizer [4]

Anti-communism

Crouch claimed to have broken from the CPUSA in January 1942, although the Party renewed his membership for 1943.[4]

During five years as a paid government informer, he testified regarding Robert Oppenheimer, Harry Bridges,[1] Charlie Chaplin, William Remington,[5] Milton A. Abernethy, and many others as Communists. He alleged that Communist conspiracy had reached the White House and inspired the civil rights movement.[6]

During his testimony on May 6, 1949, he spoke at length about efforts by the CPUSA to continue to infiltrate the U.S. Army. He also mentioned alleged communists known to him, including Harry Bridges (strike organizer), William Schneiderman (California CP), Robert Oppenheimer (atomic scientist), including Haakon Chevalier (translator). Clearly, the committee tried to connect Crouch to the Hiss Case. During the years 1934–1937, he testified that he had worked under J. Peters, Max Bedacht, daughter Elsa Bedacht, and Peter's replacement Rudy Baker. He knew George Mink. He also knew Alexander Trachtenberg well.[4] (Bedacht and Peters recruited Whittaker Chambers to the underground, while George Mink was an early underground comrate. Chambers’ wife Esther Shemitz illustrated a book for International Publishers.) However, he did not know Isaac Folkoff or William Edward Crane (AKA Irving Keith), people in one of Chambers’ earlier networks.[4] (It is worth noting that J. Peters, already under federal investigation, left the U.S. permanently on May 8, 1949, two days after Crouch's testimony.)

During 1951–1952, Crouch was the "most highly paid" informer for the Justice Department and earned $9,675 (more than $87,000 in inflation-adjusted 2016 dollars) during those two years.[3]

During the same period, he lectured across the U.S., sometimes with his wife Sylvia and fellow informant Louis Budenz.[7]

In 1953, Crouch testified in a deportation hearing of Jacob Burck that he had often seen Burck at Communist Party meetings, yet failed to correctly identify him at that hearing.[8]

Discredited

On January 5, 1953, an appeals board overturned the decision regarding the loyalty of Mary Dublin Keyserling, wife of Leon Keyserling, both New Deal economists. After being cleared of disloyalty, Mary Keyserling was reinstated to her role in the Department of Commerce[9] but both Keyserlings retired from their government roles on January 9. Crouch, J. B. Matthews, and Senator Joseph McCarthy were their chief accusers.[10] Mary Keyserling returned to work in government roles under President Johnson.

Reporters Joseph Alsop, Stewart Alsop, and Drew Pearson began to challenge Crouch's testimony. (I. F. Stone joined in March 1954.)

In June, 1954, affidavits accusing Crouch of multiple cases of perjury were filed which led to the overturning of the deportation order against Pulitzer-prize winning political cartoonist, Jacob Burck.[11]

Within a few months, Justice stopped using Crouch as a witness.[10] In 1955, supreme court justices agreed that Crouch and Manning Johnson had made allegations under perjury.[12]

Death

Crouch died on November 18, 1955, at the hospital of the University of California at Berkeley in Berkeley, California, of cancer of the throat and bronchial tubes.[13]

Legacy

At his death, one of the people whom he had accused wrote:

In his testimony before the Courts, Congressional Committees, and Loyalty Boards, Crouch did just what he was hired to do and, whatever may be said about him, he gave his employers full value of what they wanted of him. He died lonely and despised by those who used him. Those who hired him remain respectable and powerful. They used him and when he was no longer useful they threw him aside. There are plenty of others to take his place. His very death was a final act of service to his hirers, for by it he became purged of his evil doing and they, of their responsibility for using him, for of the dead we should speak only good. Our Attorney General will now be spared the embarrassment of answering questions about the progress of his long delayed "study" of Crouch's conflicting testimony or about what is being done to right the wrongs done his victims.[14]

Works

  • ‘’Broken Chains’’ (unpublished manuscript about his CPUSA career 1925–1942)[1]

Images

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Register of the Paul Crouch Papers, 1925-1958" (PDF). Online Archive of California. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Taylor, Gregory S. (2009). The History of the North Carolina Community Party. University of South Carolina Press. pp. 14–24. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  3. ^ a b Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin J. (2007). American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Knopf. p. 440.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Testimony of Paul Crouch". Committee on Un-American Activities. 1949. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  5. ^ "William Remington". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  6. ^ Taylor, Gregory S. (2014). The Life and Lies of Paul Crouch: Communist, Opportunist, Cold War Snitch. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. p. 340. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  7. ^ "Ex-Reds to Appear on Lecture Series". Pittsburgh Press. 21 September 1952. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  8. ^ "National Affairs: Absurd". Time. 19 July 1954.
  9. ^ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/11/19/88134130.html?pageNumber=17
  10. ^ a b Storrs, Landon R. Y. (2013). The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left. Princeton University Press. p. 144. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  11. ^ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/06/24/83340162.html?pageNumber=11
  12. ^ Lichtman, Robert M. (2012). The Supreme Court and McCarthy-Era Repression: One Hundred Decisions. University of Illinois Press. p. 82. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  13. ^ Taylor, Gregory S. (2014). The Life and Lies of Paul Crouch: Communist, Opportunist, Cold War Snitch. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. pp. 271–272. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  14. ^ Durr, Clifford J. (12 December 1955). "A Noted Victim of Paul Crouch Writes the Informer's Obituary". I. F. Stone's Weekly. Retrieved 15 June 2016.

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