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Jay Lovestone (15 December 1897 – 7 March 1990) was an American activist. He was at various times a member of the Socialist Party of America , a leader of the Communist Party USA , leader of a small oppositionist party, an anti-Communist and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) helper, and foreign policy advisor to the leadership of the AFL ...
- political activist
- City College of New York
- 1919–1982
Jan 30, 1999 · A founder of the Communist Party of the United States, Jay Lovestone broke with the Soviets—he opposed Stalin to his face—then broke with Marxism itself. Joining the American labor movement, working closely with the CIA, he fought communism for the rest of his life. Hoover archivist Elena Danielson describes Lovestone and his papers.
Mar 9, 1990 · Jay Lovestone, who briefly headed the Communist Party in the United States in the 1920's before becoming a staunch anti-Communist, died in his sleep Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was...
Since early in this century, disillusioned ex-radicals have often served as foreign-policy advisers to the labor movement. But the role of Jay Lovestone over three decades beginning in the 1940s was exceptional. In 1927, at the age of twenty-nine, Lovestone became general secretary of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA).
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Mar 11, 1990 · March 11, 1990 12 AM PT. From Associated Press. NEW YORK — Jay Lovestone, a former Communist Party leader in the United States who once called Josef Stalin a murderer and lived to tell about...
Mar 21, 1999 · A founding member of the Communist party in the United States, a force to be reckoned with in George Meany’s American Federation of Labor, and an agent in James Angleton’s CIA counter-intelligence...
Jun 1, 1999 · A biography of Jay Lovestone, a leading figure in American labor and Cold War politics. Learn how he challenged Stalin, fought communism and worked in the shadows as a covert agent.
