Communist? Oh come on, that's like the "news flash" that Pete Seeger denounced Stalin many decades ago. BUT it seems either the author or reviewer have made a terrible mistake - as early as the early 1940s, Stone was certainly NOT obscure, with a series of books written on the "dollar a year" WW II profiteers, regular columns and articles in many NY newspapers and magazines, oft syndicated - followed by his late-40s trips to the Middle East to watch the birth of Israel (the only books not republished in the 1980s by Little, Brown - I guess out of some …
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Totsuka- The full name of those files were the Verona INTERCEPTS, encoded transmissions from the Sov. embassy back home. Interestingly, though they have been used to damn people (especially those long dead), they never used *real* names. The names, like the names of Julius Rosenberg, were gratuitously tacked on to people mentioned in the files under a cover name to match the needs or imagination of agencies that kept them. Izzy Stone was of value to the KGB for the same reason he was of value to all of us - he reported on things we were supposed to know - …
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