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On 10/21/10 10:00 PM, Brian Dick wrote: > I'm assuming that your comment about the WSWS accusing the ISO of being > agents of the GPU is referring to the series of investigations launched by > the Worker's League in the 1970s after it was discovered that Wolforth's > girlfriend, Nancy Fields, who had risen to leadership positions, had family > ties to the CIA. Although Security and the Fourth International cleared > both Wolforth and Fields, it did discover a number of facts about the death > of Trotsky and, later, the infiltration of the Socialist Workers Party by > government agents in the 1960s. Among the findings was that James P. > Cannon's secretary, Sylvia Cladwell, was a GPU agent. Later findings, > brought about by an SWP member, Alan Gelfand, in a court case found that > Joseph Hansen, head of Trotsky's security, met with FBI agents shortly after > Trotsky's death (without ever informing the SWP) and, beginning in the > mid-1940s, he had worked for the GPU inside of the SWP. Not surprisingly, > one of the most vocal opponents of the investigations and findings of > Security and the Fourth International was, Joseph Hansen. This kind of vomit is not permitted here. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
