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Opinionated, but willing to talk...

Chip Berlet. Used with permission, ©2005, MH/PRA
Chip Berlet.
Used with permission, ©2005, MH/PRA
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Barnstar

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For your hard work in keeping LaRouche movement propaganda out of Wikipedia, I hereby award you the ancient Defender of the Wiki barnstar, which is given to those who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to stop Wikipedia being used for fraudulent purposes. SlimVirgin 04:57, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

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and the Lyndon LaRouche Stygian stables


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Identity Spoiler


I am Chip Berlet and I work at Political Research Associates

I have also written freelance articles for the publications of many groups, including:

  1. Interhemispheric Resource Center
  2. Amnesty International (USA)
  3. Z Media Institute (Z Magazine)
  4. Institute for the Study of Genocide
  5. Greenpeace
  6. National Council of Jewish Women
  7. Southern Poverty Law Center
  8. Group Regards Critiques, (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
  9. American Sociological Association
  10. American Anthropological Association

I state this here to clear up the misconceptions of several Wiki editors. Please note: Freelance articles in no way represent the views of my employer, Political Research Associates. Nor do my freelance articles make me an employee or affiliate of these organizations. Nor does it make me a woman, Jewish, poor, or Southern.


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List

  • Chart on Genealogy of White Supremacist and Antisemitic Groups
Chip Berlet
Roots of anti-Semitism
  • Chart on Sectors of the Right
Pending
  • Photograph of Chip Berlet
Chip Berlet


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Handy Links

Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment


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Conspiracy Theory

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Specific controversial claims

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General controversial claims


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Spade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation/Archive_17/Cberlet_and_Sam_Spade

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Nobs

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Cberlet and Nobs01/A3

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Cberlet and Nobs01

Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation/Cberlet_and_Nobs01/Workshop

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Venona dissents

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VENONA_project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Magdoff_and_espionage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._F._Stone


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_of_influence

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Contrary view

Victor Navasky, in an editorial for The Nation critical of recent published works on Soviet espionage, wrote that the VENONA evidence implicating Magdoff is ambiguous at best.

In Appendix A to their book on Venona, Haynes and Klehr list 349 names (and code names) of people who they say "had a covert relationship with Soviet intelligence that is confirmed in the Venona traffic." They do not qualify the list, which includes everyone from Alger Hiss to Harry Magdoff, the former New Deal economist and Marxist editor of Monthly Review, and Walter Bernstein, the lefty screenwriter who reported on Tito for Yank magazine. It occurs to Haynes and Klehr to reprint ambiguous Venona material related to Magdoff and Bernstein but not to call up either of them (or any other living person on their list) to get their version of what did or didn't happen....The reader is left with the implication--unfair and unproven--that every name on the list was involved in espionage, and as a result, otherwise careful historians and mainstream journalists now routinely refer to Venona as proof that many hundreds of Americans were part of the red spy network. .[1]

Navasky goes on to write that "thus far Venona has been used as much to distort as to expand our understanding of the cold war." He says that "some researchers have misinterpreted these files." Navasky joins other skeptical scholars such as Frank Donner and Ellen Schrecker who observe that basing historical resarch on unredacted intelligence agency files is a dubious proposition. As Navasky puts it "in the absence of hard supporting evidence, partially decrypted files in this world of espionage, where deception is the rule, are by definition potential time bombs of misinformation." [2]

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Victor Navasky is not happy with the anticommunist interpretation of the Venona material:

In Appendix A to their book on Venona, Haynes and Klehr list 349 names (and code names) of people who they say "had a covert relationship with Soviet intelligence that is confirmed in the Venona traffic." They do not qualify the list, which includes everyone from Alger Hiss to Harry Magdoff, the former New Deal economist and Marxist editor of Monthly Review, and Walter Bernstein, the lefty screenwriter who reported on Tito for Yank magazine. It occurs to Haynes and Klehr to reprint ambiguous Venona material related to Magdoff and Bernstein but not to call up either of them (or any other living person on their list) to get their version of what did or didn't happen.
The reader is left with the implication--unfair and unproven--that every name on the list was involved in espionage, and as a result, otherwise careful historians and mainstream journalists now routinely refer to Venona as proof that many hundreds of Americans were part of the red spy network.
My own view is that thus far Venona has been used as much to distort as to expand our understanding of the cold war--not just because some researchers have misinterpreted these files but also because in the absence of hard supporting evidence, partially decrypted files in this world of espionage, where deception is the rule, are by definition potential time bombs of misinformation.[3]

Ellen Schrecker agrees. "Because they offer insights into the world of the secret police on both sides of the Iron Curtain, it is tempting to treat the FBI and Venona materials less critically than documents from more accessible sources. But there are too many gaps in the record to use these matrerials with complete confidence" (1998, pp. xvii-xviii).


  • Frank J. Donner. 1980. The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America’s Political Intelligence System. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Frank J. Donner. 1990. Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Ellen Schrecker. 1994. The Age Of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents, Boston: St. Martin's Press.
  • Ellen Schrecker. 1998. Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Boston: Little Brown.
  • The Age Of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents; by Ellen Schrecker. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
  • Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America; by Ellen Schrecker. Boston: Little Brown, 1998.
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mediation

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Cberlet and Nobs01

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Cberlet and Nobs01/Workshop

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Cberlet and Nobs01/Workshop/Nobs01

Talk:VENONA project; Talk:Significance of Venona; Harry Magdoff; Harry Magdoff and espionage; nobs Grifross Jack Upland

Klaus Fuchs, Alan Nunn May, Cambridge Five, Donald Duart Maclean Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Manhattan Project. Theodore Hall, Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, Maurice Halperin, Theodore Hall,

Franklin Delano Roosevelt;

Elizabeth_Bentley

Office of Strategic Services,CIA, War Production Board, Board of Economic Warfare, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs Office of War Information,



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