AMERICA’S DREYFUS

INDEX

Abt, John 146

Accident, The (Masters) 56, 199, 329

accusations 24–5

Acheson, Dean 330

advertising 141, 303

African Americans 22, 42, 245

Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) 32, 42, 161

Alcoa 332

America see United States of America

Anderson, Walter 193, 277

Andrews, Bert 96, 122, 183, 184, 187

antisemitism 22, 43, 333

Appell, Donald 120, 121

Arnold, Benedict 12, 237, 288

Arrogance of Power, The (Summers) 69

atomic bomb 33, 41, 55–6, 307, 329

Bacall, Lauren 25

Balanchine, George 13–14

Baldwin, Bernice 235

Bank of America 71, 73, 77, 136

BASF 332

Bayer Healthcare 332

Beatty, Warren 256

Bedacht, Max 168

Bellamy, Francis 43

Bentley, Elizabeth 153, 161

Berle, Adolf 45, 47, 94

and Chambers 170, 175, 176

Bernstein, Leonard 306

Bigwood, Jeremy 215–16, 247, 249, 253, 337

Bin Laden, Osama 4, 334

Binger, Dr 252

Blunt, Anthony 323, 328

Bogart, Humphrey 25

Bosch 70, 331

Boy Scouts 22

Brady, Mildred Edie 76–7

Brady, Robert A. 76, 77, 248–9, 308–10

Brecht, Bertolt 25

Bretnall, Harold 316

Brothers, The (Kinzer) 331

Bryant, Louise 256–7, 258

Buckley, William 266, 271

Budenz, Louis 140, 234

Bullitt, Orville 259, 276

Bullitt, Thomas 204–6, 210–13

Bullitt, William Christian 254, 255–6, 257–60, 265–6, 330

and documentation 273–4, 275–6, 277–9

Bullitt, William Marshall 202, 205, 207, 209–10, 213–14, 275–6

and trial 236–7

Bunuel, Louis 307

Bureau of Aeronautics 69

Burgess, Guy 323

Busby, Fred E. 41–2, 49

Bush, George W. 99

Bykov, Colonel 175–6

Calder, Alexander 132, 133

Calomiris, Angela 235

Cambridge Five 84, 160, 161, 328

cameras 176

“Camp X” 315

Campfire Girls 22

Capone, Al 63, 92–3, 94

Carnegie, Andrew 34

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1, 18, 34, 79, 162, 275–6

Case, Edward 316

Catlett, Mike 219–20

Caucus Room 39, 40, 43–4, 46, 141–2

Chambers, Esther 171–3, 232, 267

Chambers, Whittaker 60–1, 64, 81–8, 117–18, 333

and accusation 18, 19, 37, 38, 44–5, 314

and the Bullitts 276

and Communism 47, 59, 157

and deposition 166–71, 173

and documentation 174–7, 178, 179, 180–1, 261–2, 264–5, 277

and FBI 62–3

and first trial 227–8, 231–4

and hearing 90–5

and Hiss 46, 78–9, 102–4, 108, 122–6

and homosexuality 266–8, 269–72

and law suit 156

and the media 152

and microfilm 183, 184, 186–7

and motive 265–6

and name changes 65–6

and Nixon 96–8

and public hearing 142, 143, 147–50

and second trial 252

and Soviet spies 154–5, 164

Chaplin, Charlie 4, 306

Chervonnaya, Svetlana 161, 162, 163, 164

and Bullitt 275

and documentation 263

and Hiss 328, 329

and Nazis 215, 216, 249

and procedures 176, 177–8

and trial 252–3

Childs, Jack 234–5

Childs, Morris 234

Chotiner, Murray 72–3, 146, 243–4

Churchill, Winston 14, 33, 323, 330

CIA 70, 162

civil rights movement 114, 130

Civil Service Commission 41–2

Cleveland, Richard 166–7

Cloud Chamber, The (Masters) 200–1

Cohen, Mickey 63, 72, 73, 301, 302

Cole, Lester 101

Collins, Henry 107, 146

Columbia University 83, 85

Comintern Apparatus Squad 88

Committee of One Hundred Men 71, 72, 73

Committee of the First Amendment 25–6

Commodore Hotel 121, 122, 128

Communism 3–4, 207–8

and accusations 18–19

and Hiss 44, 46–7

and Hollywood 23–6

and McCarthy 305–7

and Nixon 74, 303–4

and Soviet Union 54–5

and subversion 20–2

and US government 150, 152, 156–7, 188

and USA 244–5, 307–10, 333

Communist Control Group 87

Communist Party 21, 25, 47

and Chambers 83–4, 86

and dues 92–4, 139–40, 233–4

and FBI 63

and Hiss 59, 60, 61

and trial 225, 227, 234–5

Concerto Barocco 13–14

Confrontation Clause 45

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) 74

Consumers Union 11, 53, 54, 55, 76

Cooke, Alistair 75, 141, 154, 171–2

and trial 227, 229, 239, 250–1, 263

Cooper, Gary 24

Copeland, Aaron 307

Coplon, Judith 250, 314, 328, 329

coram nobis 319, 320

Costello, Frank 286–8, 301

Counter Intelligence Corps 320

Coxe, Alfred 246

Cronin, John Francis 61, 62, 97, 139, 306

Crosley, George 105–6, 123, 124, 125

and documentation 138

and public hearing 142–3, 145

Cross, Claude 246, 251, 252

Cvetic, Matt 235

Daily Worker (newspaper) 83, 86, 140

Daladier, Edouard 258–9, 260, 276

Dales, Ida 85

Danbury Correctional Institution 101, 158, 283

Dassin, Jules 307

Davidson, Donald 292–3, 294

Davis, John F. 144, 145, 147

Davis, John W. 79, 236

Day, Roy 243, 244

Dean, John 316

Delbos, Yvon 273, 274

Democrat Party 42, 234, 333

Dewey, Thomas 97, 157

Dies, Martin 60, 61

Disney, Walt 23, 84

documentation 261–4, 272–5, 276–9

Dollard, George 121, 122, 128

Donegan, Thomas 88, 93

Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill” 316

double jeopardy 156

Douglas, Helen Gahagan 302, 303–4

Douglas, William O. 320

Dozenberg, Nicholas 235

Dreyfus, Alfred 3, 5

Dulles, Allen 70, 71, 79

Dulles, John Foster 19, 34, 70, 71, 332

and Hiss 79, 98, 153–4

and Nixon 97

Eden, Anthony 33

Einstein, Albert 22, 199, 306

Eisenhower, Dwight D. 2, 34

Endore, Guy 264

espionage 41, 58–9, 63–4, 160–5, 322–30

and Chambers 84–5, 86, 157

and Hiss 42, 61, 153

and procedures 176, 177–8

Espionage Act (1917) 190, 317

Euripides 22

Farago, Ladislas 164, 177, 323, 328

fascism 20, 54, 76, 248–9, 258

FBI 3, 19

and Bradys 77, 136, 215, 247–9

and Chambers 47, 87–8, 155, 268, 270, 272

and Communism 245

and files 336–7

and Hiss 61–3, 64, 162–3, 230, 338

and informants 235

and Masters 54, 55, 56

and Nixon 138–9

and surveillance 313–14

and typewriter 218–20

Federal Building 225, 226–7, 250

Feehan, Ramos 237–8

Fifth Amendment 24, 139, 140, 146–7, 314

and Nixon 156

and violations 318

First Amendment 25

First War Powers Act (1941) 331

For the President: Personal & Secret (Bullitt) 259

Ford 332

forgery 315, 316

France 273, 274

Frankfurter, Felix 30, 32, 236, 243

Freedom of Information Act (1966) 312, 317, 336–7

Freud, Sigmund 256, 292

Fuchs, Klaus 328, 329

Galbraith, John Kenneth 337

Galois, Evariste 199–200, 201–2, 203, 204, 209, 210–13, 214

Generation on Trial, A (Cooke) 250

German American Bund 43

Germany 54, 69–70, 76, 77, 273, 274

and espionage 163

and USA 79, 99

see also Nazis

Ginsberg, Allen 307

Goddard, Henry 250–1, 311

Gold, Harry 329

grand jury 189–92, 193–4, 194, 317–19

Great Depression 21, 30–2, 54

Great Globe Itself, The (Bullitt) 259, 277–8

Gron, Niels 130–4

Guantanamo Bay 46

Hardy, G. H. 207, 209, 211, 278–9

Harriman, Averell 330

Harvard Law School 30, 118, 253–4

Hatch Act 61, 62

Hébert, Felix 59, 101, 104

and public hearing 144, 146, 147–8

Hesse-Darmstadt family 28, 29

Hidalgo, Balmes 235

Hinchley, Vernon 163–4, 176, 177, 322, 328

Hiss, Alger 5, 9–10, 11–17, 50–2, 296–7

and accusation 18–19, 27, 37, 38, 98–9

and background 28–31

and Bullitt 259, 260

and career 32–3

and Chambers 65, 66, 78–9

and Chambers’ hearing 90–5

and character 116–18

and Communist Party 59, 60, 61

and conviction 1–2, 311–12

and coram nobis appeal 319, 320, 338–9

and deposition 170–1

and Dexter 340–2

and documentation 180–1

and espionage 160, 161–2, 163–5

and ex-convict 111–12, 293–4

and FBI 61–3

and files 312–14, 315

and first hearing 39–42, 43–6, 48–9

and first trial 225, 226–7, 228–31, 239

and Galois 201–2

and hotel meeting 120–9

and imprisonment 282–4, 286, 287–90

and Isabel 112–13, 114, 116

and law suit 155–6

and New Prosecution 322, 323, 324–30

and Nixon 75, 114–15

and Nixon plot 132–5

and perjury 192

and public hearing 142–7, 151–2

and scapegoat 333–4

and second hearing 100–9

and second trial 245–6, 280–1

and Timmy 269, 270–1

and truth 294–5, 318

and typewriter 217–18, 219, 221, 241

and United Nations 33–4

Hiss, Donald 139, 146–7, 259

and typewriter 218, 219, 220–1

Hiss, Priscilla 18, 30, 31, 104–5

and Alger 110–11, 112

and Chambers 148, 149

and first trial 225, 226–7, 229, 230

and second trial 281

and typewriter 217, 219, 238

Hiss, Tony 18, 52, 116–17

Hitler, Adolf 32, 33, 70, 76, 77, 262

Hobson, Timothy (Timmy) 91, 92, 269–71, 286

Holiday, Billie 52

Hollywood 23–6, 40

Hollywood Ten 26, 60, 100, 101, 318

Holmes, Oliver Wendell 30, 31, 48, 290

Holocaust, the 332

homosexuality 266–8, 269–71

Hoover, J. Edgar 62, 99, 156–7, 248

and Communism 245, 306

and informants 235

and Nixon 138–9, 182

Hotel Roosevelt 97

House Un-American Activities

Committee (HUAC) 19, 20–6, 60–1, 158–9, 333

and Chambers 65, 89–95

and FBI 139

and first trial 242–3

and Hiss 27, 37–8, 39–42, 43–9, 58–60

and public hearing 141–9, 151–3

and second hearing 100–9

and typewriter 218, 219

and White 119–20

HUAC see House Un-American Activities Committee

Hummer, Ed 139

Humphrey, Hubert 114

Huston, John 25

I Was a Communist for the FBI (film) 235

IBM 332

I. G. Farben 70, 137, 154, 331, 332

immunity 25

Irons, Peter 219

ISIS 4, 334

ITT 332

James, Hubert Edgar 243

Japan 33, 262

Japanese Americans 20

Jews 22, 23, 43, 54

John Hopkins University 30

Johnson, Isabel 10, 12–13, 14, 15, 17, 50–2

and Alger 112–14, 115–16, 341–2

and Britain 293, 294

Johnson, Lyndon B. 132

Josephson, Barney 52

Josephson, Matthew 85

Jowitt, William 233–4

jurors 243, 281

Justice Department 2, 90, 157

and documentation 180–1, 182, 261, 278

and microfilm 186, 187–8, 194

Kalugin, Gen Oleg 324–5

Kaplan, Irving 153

Kaufman, Samuel H. 227, 239, 242–3

Keaton, Diane 256–7

Kennan, George 334

Kennedy, Robert 115

Kersten, Charles J. 97

KGB 161, 324–5, 328

King, Martin Luther 114

Kinzer, Stephen 331

Kobyakov, Julius 334–5

Kontinentale Ol A.G. 69, 70

Korean War 304

Kramer, Charles 107, 146

Krieger, Sam 325

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) 20, 23, 40

LA Confidential (film) 72

Labusov, Boris 324–5, 328

Lansky, Meyer 301

Lasky, Victor 228, 242

Lazar, Ernie 269

Le Gallienne, Gwen 257

Lenin, Vladimir 20

Levin, Carl 122

Levine, Isaac Don 276–7

Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary 15, 282, 283–4, 286–90

Life magazine 75, 251

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt 251

Lore, Ludwig 275, 330

Louisville University 202, 203–4

Lovestone, Jay 337

Lowenthal, John 326, 335

Luce, Clare Booth 266

Luce, Henry 167, 266, 276

McCarthy, Joseph 81, 253, 304–7, 327

McDowell, John 41, 101, 158, 218

and hotel meeting 120–1, 122, 125–6

Mafiosi 284, 286–8

and Nixon 301, 302

Mandel, Ben 65, 92, 277

Manhattan Project 307

Mann, Thomas 306

Marbury, William 79, 166, 167–8, 169–70, 171, 175

Marcantonio, Vito 74

Markward, Mary 235

Marlowe, Christopher 22

Marshall Plan 161–2

Massing, Hede 324

Masters, Dexter 9–11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 50–2, 339–41

and atomic bomb 329

and FBI 53–4, 55–6

and Grons 132–4

and science 199–201

Matthews, J. B. 61, 62

Matusow, Harvey 235, 266

media, the 2, 39–40, 46, 49, 58, 129

and first trial 225–6

and investigation 139–40

and microfilm 183, 184–8, 191–2

and Nixon 79–80

and public hearing 141–2

Medina, Harold 167

microfilm 2, 183–8, 190, 191, 193–4, 194–5, 280

and truth 317

Military Intelligence 316, 327

Miller, Arthur 307

Miller, William 182, 302

Molotov, Vyacheslav 328, 329

“Monkey Parties” 51

Moretti, Willie 287

Morgenbesser, Sidney 53

Morgenthau, Henry 99

Moynihan, Daniel 163

Mundt, Karl Earl 37, 40, 42, 120, 158

and espionage 59, 61

and Hiss 43–5, 46, 49

and microfilm 183–4

and public hearing 144, 145, 146, 147, 150

Murphy, Raymond 61, 62, 170

Murphy, Thomas 227–8, 229, 238, 246, 313–14

and second trial 251, 252, 280, 281

naming names 24, 25, 41

and Hiss 48, 49, 60

National Archives 77, 136, 215, 253

and Hiss 338

Nazis 43, 54, 55, 136–7, 330–2

and Bullitt 258

and USA 69–71, 215–16, 249

Negroes see African Americans

New Deal 32, 42, 43, 55, 161

New Masses (newspaper) 83, 86, 168

New Prosecution 322, 323–30

New York Herald Tribune (newspaper) 96, 122

newsreels 39

Nichols, Louis 182

Nixon, Richard 5, 27, 58, 62, 67–9

and assassination plot 132–5

and Bullitt 213–14, 236, 237, 276, 277, 278, 279

and Chambers 89–95, 96–8, 155, 181–2, 264–5

and Communism 156–7

and Dulles 153, 154

and espionage 63–4

and FBI 138–9

and first trial 228–9, 230–1, 242

and grand jury 189–92, 194–5, 317–18

and Hiss 48–9, 59–60, 61, 316

and hotel meeting 121–9

and the media 79–80

and microfilm 2, 184–8, 280

and presidency 114, 115, 130

and public hearing 143–7, 148–9, 151

and Republican Party 71–5, 243–4

and second hearing 101–3, 104–5, 106, 108, 109

and senator race 301–4

and testimony 65, 66

and Truman 332–3

and typewriter 218

and Vice-Presidency 312

“No Fly Lists” 4, 46

Nowell, William 235

Nye, Gerald 32, 41

Office of Strategic Services (OSS) 218, 316, 320

One World or None (Masters/Way) 55–6, 199, 307

onionskin paper 273, 278–9

Oppenheimer, J. Robert 199, 307

Owen, Richard 313, 319, 320

Pauling, Linus 307

Pearson, Drew 70

perjury 63, 64, 93, 142, 181, 318

Perjury (Weinstein) 322

Perlo, Victor 146

Perry, Herman 71, 73, 77

Peters, J. V. 140

Philby, Kim 323

Pledge of Allegiance 43

Powder Point Academy 29–30

Pressman, Lee 146, 333, 334

Prettyman, E. Barrett 314

Problem of American Communism in 1945, The (Cronin) 61

pumpkin 182–3, 184, 273, 274, 278

Rabinowitz, Victor 312, 313, 336

Rankin, John 23, 37, 40, 48, 245

and Hiss 48

Reagan, Ronald 23–4

Record Group 65 77, 136

Record Retention Plan 336

Red Plot Against America, The (Stripling) 59, 60, 225–6, 245

Reds (film) 256–7

Reed, John 256–7

Reed, Stanley 236, 243

Republican Party 41, 42, 69, 97, 154

and Communism 333

and Nixon 71–2

Reuben, William A. 169

Robeson, Paul 245, 304, 307

Rockefeller, David 34

Rogers, Ginger 24

Rogers, William P. 97

Roosevelt, Eleanor 4, 287, 288, 302

Roosevelt, Franklin D. 4, 14, 31–2, 33, 42, 43, 330

and Bullitt 257, 258, 259, 260

and code name 323

and Communism 154, 161

and enemy trading 331

and New Deal 55

Rosenberg, Ethel 288, 317

Rosenberg, Julius 288, 317, 323, 328

Roth, Samuel 271

rules of evidence 22–3, 24, 45

Russia see Soviet Union

Salant, Stephen 139, 316

Saul, John Ralston 118

Sayre, Francis B. 180, 193, 194, 236, 261

Schmahl, Horace 218, 219, 316

Schonberg, Harold 293, 294, 296, 297

Schragmüller, Dr Elsbeth 163, 177

Seafield, Nina, Countess of 131

Seldes, George 331

Selznick, David 56

Semmes, Bowen & Semmes 167, 175

Seth, Ronald 177, 178

Shaw, G. Howland 62

Sheridan, Walter 301

Shevchenko, Arkady 162, 164, 177

Simon, Kenneth 311

Sirhan, Sirhan 115

Six Crises (Nixon) 60, 65, 79, 80, 159

and Chambers 96, 97

Sixth Amendment 45, 245

SMERSH 87, 147

Smith Act 62

Smith, Gerald L. K. 235

Smith, John Chabot 261, 262, 263

Snowden, Edward 164, 317

Soviet Union 2, 3, 20, 54–5, 244–5

and Bullitt 256–8, 259, 275

and Chambers 87, 155

and documentation 262

and Germany 274

and spies 41, 160, 161, 162–3, 164–5, 322, 323–8, 329–30

Spanish Civil War 42, 331

Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry 32–3, 41

spies see espionage

Spirit and Structure of German fascism, The (Brady) 76, 216

Stahl, Dorothy 308

Stalin, Joseph 3, 4, 20, 33, 176, 178, 259, 330

and intelligence 263, 275

Standard Oil of New Jersey 34, 99, 331

Standards 219, 237

State Department 19, 33, 193–4

and Communists 40–2

and documentation 261, 262, 277

statute of limitations 63, 64, 190

Stephenson, Sir William 315

Stern, Andrew 96

Stevenson, Adlai 236

Stripling, Robert 20–1, 22, 39, 42, 255–6

and Chambers 61, 181, 182, 183

and Communism 306

and hearings 107–8, 142–3

and Hiss 43–4, 45, 46–7, 48, 58, 59–60

and hotel meeting 127–8

and microfilm 184, 185

and Nixon 96

Stryker, Lloyd 228, 229, 231, 245, 246, 251

subpoenas 23, 24, 97–8

Sullivan, William 219

Sullivan and Cromwell 69–71

Summers, Anthony 69, 72, 75

Supreme Court 30, 312, 319, 320, 339

Tamiment Library 253

Taylor, Robert 24

television 141

Temple, Shirley 22

terrorism 4, 45–6, 334

Thomas, J. Parnell 100–1, 103, 104, 108, 109, 333

and corruption 158

and hotel meeting 126, 128

and public hearing 142, 144, 145, 147

and White 119–20

Threepenny Opera, The (Brecht) 25

Time magazine 61, 75

and Chambers 44, 87, 88

Transport of Fire (film) 184, 278

treason 190–1, 194, 195, 251–2

trials 320–1

and first 225–34, 236–9, 242–3

and second 250–2, 261–4, 280–1

Trilling, Lionel 85, 106

Truman, Harry S. 42, 154, 333

and Communism 156–7, 158, 159, 307, 309

typewriter 217–21, 228, 237–8, 240, 241

and forgery 315, 316–17

Union Bank 99, 332

United Aircraft 136–7

United Nations 1, 33–4, 79

United States of America (USA):

and Communism 3–4, 21–2, 150, 152, 156–7, 244–5, 307–10, 333

and Germany 79, 99

and Nazis 69–71

University of California 309–10

US Army 3, 56, 139, 315, 316

Van Doren, Mark 83

Venona Papers 326–7

Vermont 245, 246

Vietnam War 114, 130, 132

Volkogonov, Gen Dimitri 326, 329–30

Voorhis, Jerry 71, 73, 74, 146

Wall Street crash 30–1

Wallace, Henry 40–1

Wanamaker, Sam 307

war-profiteering 32, 136–7, 216, 331–2

Ware, Harold 146

Way, Katherine 55, 199, 307–8

Weinstein, Alan 322, 323, 325

Welles, Orson 4, 307

Welles, Sumner 258, 275

Wheldon, Sir Hugh 51

White, Harry Dexter 119–20, 122

Wikileaks 164

Wilson, Woodrow 256, 257, 265–6

wiretaps 313, 314

Witness (Chambers) 81, 154–5

witnesses 25

Witt, Nathan 146

Works Progress Administration (WPA) 86, 153

World War II 20, 33, 55, 70, 331

Yalta Conference 33, 79, 259, 260, 330

“Yellow Report” 20

Zeligs, Meyer 78–9, 84, 112, 264

Zyklon-B 70, 332