43. Politics-Front Organizations & Fellow Travelers,, 1935-1980

Summary:Documents CRs' interest in identifying organizations and individuals whose activities were seen as communistic, leftist or subversive. The series was used for reference and gathered to uncover links between various individuals and organizations. Includes newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence, periodicals, memoranda, and other materials. Letters are mostly from F.J. Schlink and concern CR's attempts at supplying the FBI, the Pentagon & Martin Dies Un-American Activities committee with information on leftist activities. The Front Organization files include organizations interested in civil rights, social justice, refugees, writers, Vietnam, European turmoil in the 1930s & 1940s, the Abraham Lincoln brigade, women, USSR, labor, and other organizations. Included are files on the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, League of Women Shoppers, the Public Affairs Committee, and the American Association of Scientific Workers. Also includes the Attorney General's Lists of Communist or Subversive Organizations. The Fellow Traveler file consists of records on several hundred individuals CR linked to "subversive" ideas, actions or organizations. The file contains a miscellaneous section and an alphabetical section. Some of the individuals with large files include Dr. Edward U. Condon, J. Robert Oppenheimer, I.F. Stone, Dalton Trumbull and Henry Wallace.

Also see the Anti-Communist and other Movements and the Left-Wing Infiltration series.