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The '''Communist Party of the United States of America''' ('''CPUSA'''), also known as the '''American Communist Party''', is a [[communist]] party in the United States which was established in [[1919]].
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==COINTELPRO==
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The party was one of the targets for the [[FBI]]'s [[COINTELPRO]] program. In addition to [[phone taps]] and thefts of records, [[informants]] were found or planted into the party ranks. Operatives seeded rallies with hecklers, planted negative news stories, and canceled halls already rented for meetings. A "snitch jacket" was placed on [[William Albertson]], a member of the party’s National Committee, meaning that the FBI planted a document where another party member was sure to find it, falsely implying that Albertson was an informant. He was, as hoped, thrown out of the party.<ref name=heritage/>
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In all, some 1,500 paid informants were used and 1,338 "actions" were taken in a fourteen-year period. By [[1971]] the party’s ranks had dwindled to three thousand, of whom a large proportion probably were FBI plants.<ref name=heritage>https://www.americanheritage.com/fbi-unbound</ref>
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Group.png Communist Party of the United States  
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Formation1919
Founder C.E. Ruthenberg
Headquarters235 W. 23rd Street, New York City, New York, 10011
American Communist Party strongest in the 1930s. By the 1950s a large part of the dwindling membership was FBI informants.

The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), also known as the American Communist Party, is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919.

COINTELPRO

The party was one of the targets for the FBI's COINTELPRO program. In addition to phone taps and thefts of records, informants were found or planted into the party ranks. Operatives seeded rallies with hecklers, planted negative news stories, and canceled halls already rented for meetings. A "snitch jacket" was placed on William Albertson, a member of the party’s National Committee, meaning that the FBI planted a document where another party member was sure to find it, falsely implying that Albertson was an informant. He was, as hoped, thrown out of the party.[1]

In all, some 1,500 paid informants were used and 1,338 "actions" were taken in a fourteen-year period. By 1971 the party’s ranks had dwindled to three thousand, of whom a large proportion probably were FBI plants.[1]


 

Party Members

PoliticianBornDiedDescription
Jay Lovestone15 December 18977 March 1990US communist who ended up working for James Jesus Angleton
Victor Perlo15 May 19121 December 1999American Marxist economist, government functionary, and a longtime member of the governing National Committee of the Communist Party USA - and Soviet spy.
Juliet Poyntz25 November 1886June 1937
Lee Pressman1 July 190620 November 1969US labor attorney and earlier a US government functionary, alleged to have been a spy for Soviet intelligence during the mid-1930s.
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