“16 st r264 4, • CLASS .. % Shanghai Wuni Polic • Piles, filed, 16-4-2- 37, p 2 *t In Shanghai GLASS made the acquaintance of one Damaroo C.BE33, American from - Kansas City, born 1893.This was somo time after April 1932. Name C.F. GLASS 2 Cell Frank GLASS.- Born 25 Marc”
“1949 uttun ga.co. -epee, ^ ^ -^ "* In reeronse to State Dept, then 5 is eite.oumairiapums site 43 and-Agnes-A.ALET born a vis tor or -pd"Fanicj-end/voized with aiej 0-3 attune ond-Adnes-k.aunrt Over_.. warhw Zimcts SnGri rotes - H. 4. 13A C3, Itarold tobert (ect’d) PD”
“SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEMN 1 3 OCT 1965 TO: United States Civil Service Commission Attention: Mr. Joseph G. Campbell FROM: Deputy Director for Plans SUBJECT: ISAACS. Harold Robert 1. Reference is made to your request dated 14 September 1965. The files of this office c”
“aliases, Bag arrested by the Shanghai Zunielpai felica on charges of abpionaga is benalf of the Third international. ISAACS became the ohaninai secretary of the Coalto Inter- Enationale four la Cefenao da "aul ot Gertrude Ruogg (BAL’NS), a committee NP. formed to aid the NOUL”
“% 971 6 -- • 7 2cs 1811, Shanghai Kuncipal Files, ruled 16-4-2- 37 ISAACS, Harold Robort ..@%elseste A Born 13 Sept 1910,Yc Sat’l American ■ DESCRIPTION. .Height *090 - Build . modium2 * - Haipweblk,wavy,brushed backs .brom Eyea hbrown ” e DOCUMENTATION . % H Xn”
“14-00000 1 SECRET Nee Fitted Ini DOCUMENT TRANSFER AND CROSS REFERENCE SUBJLCT of coctwENT DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION RI FILE NO. 16-7-24- 7y Shanghai Municipal Felice Files. 9 DiSparcu 04 source Doc. YWTOL NO. 4. Data American Citizesns Suspected of Commie ZCSA-746 24 ”
“14-00000 1.9 07* :$020 M907 Gs, - , c 1 Harold Robert ISAACS with aliases LO SEW ( pennane used in China) Harold Robert ISAACS was born in New York City on September 1910 of Amer- Lean parents. PAC father has been reported as decidedly of the commercial typo," ,- 3 IS”
“held until 1933k —In Aug1933; lie was living in Room 510,7 1276,Horth Saschuen Road,6hanghai. tr • any bacaoin:% /W % ” ? . ‘I 1 . W .r.. %”
“positions. He has resided with e British subject named C. Frank Class at 129 Wolhaiwei Road and made a trip with Glass to Szochuen during June, 1031. The polieco file contains a copy of a letter written by him to a Miss Viola Robinson, cure of the American Consulate, Dresden,”
“600bed-69- b/hia trip with CLASS, evo-ovabed-bo-aedkosto-...-/e X It has Eoerssastathst ISAACS becano interested in Cocnsuise a apsoiric° 1 : relation to China; it has also been stated that lettore Batieen ISAACS and his * fiance, Viola aceINSON, which were written during th”
“14-00000 5 A-8-7-9T UT 0 sotta ooytol yyOnwys*(C)z corny" Set SOZ Cocafatenideeg ISAACS The July 30 1932 issue of the fir Times under S Shanghai datelino of 29 July 1932, ■o< staton that :farold R ISAACS, an American citizen was varned by the US consul uenerel in Shangha”
“ace", and circulated petitions. SUBJECT wrote a couple of articles for the newspaper, Shanghai News. : CONFIDENTIAL NW 66000 Docld:32324534 Page 4 CONFIDENTIAL SEP 29 1954”
“4-00000 2 vs in Shanghai Ln 1933 as Editor at the "China Form," described as a Communist publication. - sounco of unknown reliability ban stated that in 1923 Iranca who a "notorious radical sympathiser" end via suspected of being an arent of the Third International. Issaca”
“a feeling that if the situation in the Philippines changed both he and his wife would like to go back there. This is what he may be going (working for) through his contacts with the Progressive Review. I don't knows how far they have contacts with the people inside the Philipp”
“editorial staff of Shanghai Evening 1 Post and Mercury. On 12 June 31, took trip on Yangtsze with C.F.GLASS, susp Sov agent, & wrote his fiancee he decided to turn "Red" as a result of talking with GLASS. The 2 returned in Aug & took up residence at #128 Weihaiwei Road. Starte”
“14-00000 FARC1D RORRT IS-ACS, continued Tis HAVAS News Agency. Shortly after this, in Shanghai, he carried VIOLA ROBINSON, who was, like HARCLD, a wide-eyed intellectual. This marriage probably took place in 1932. VIOLA was a great friend of AGEES SMEDLEY, the author of the”
“Council; Chi Teng-kuei, alternate zezber of the Political Bureau of the CCP 1 Central Committee; Long Piao, member of the CCP Central Committee and head of the In 3 Cathal shitls ternational Liaison Department of the CCP Central Committee: Chi Perg-fei, acting FT foreig”
“Primdsbip.locooiation, Tert of arttilla t subject attacking Prvoch rule in lecochino set forth.” Subject adviced that be was sequainted with Walter CuBANTY, "Rex lerk Tigcen correspondent in Krecow Caring early 19300.1 List of persons and organizations correo- porting with Moj”
“S* s ,%. 6) ISAACS is also reported to have been a menber of the Society of Friends of the USSR. Open his arrival in China, ISA CS joined the editorial staf. of the Shanghai Evening Post and the Mercury. . ISAACS was also employed with the Havas New Agency, whi h connecti”
“therefore wrote an article entitled," I Break with SiclAn t: Stalinists, in which among other things; ho is reported to have stated that the expense of publishing the magasthe and boon dznod by the Chinso Coxnistq, E 16 then Deported to have?, dissentinuied the magazine and t”
“snide rejoinder. I think that they intend do tond to be discreet, that they wove very happy about the situation there. I was in the Chinese Embassy only once. I was invited to reception. • ------------------------—of government X never saw so many people from ihm top bracket”
“unspecified date. In July 1932 ISAACS wrote and published the above-cited Five Years of Kuomintang Reaction, a 136-page illustrated book of Communistm nature. ~ While in Shanghai he was a member of The Society of Friends of the USSR (Shanghai Branch) and The China League for”
“! I. 7 Sep 72 B3 PRC NATIONAL APPAIRS Member ef the Standing Committee cf the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Liu Pel, Cnu Yun-shan. Yang Tung-chun, Crang Hsi- jo, Chen Tzu-sheng, Chou Pel-yuan, Chao Pu-chu, Jung I-Jen, Esu Po-hs”
“§e tst d * . Clerc . t th 1. 3 Jan 72 A 20 i isnc ti INTERNATICEAL APPAIRS e.X ooMaitich*rweh ahia Eve banquet here today In honor of foreign experts and their wives coning from various islts countries of the fLe continents. - .. si--titd- Seated at the t”
“Ministry of Public Health and other departments, and the CCF Peking Municipal Committee and the Peking Municipal Revolutionary Committee. Attending the ceremony were Tung Pi-wu, Soong Ching-ling, Chu Te, Chou En-1a1, Yeh Chien-ying, Chang chun-chiao, Yao Wen-yuan, Ls Hsien-rie”
“result of anti-Nationalist articles he wrote for News week. In 1949 Subject was Special Features Editor for that magaiine, at 152 West 42nd Street, New York City. . Ho was the author of several books, including No Peace in Asia and The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution. 6.”
“801-413-11 doe, in BI 201-18416-2, 5 Dev. 1998 _ ___ bes Watimed 6s havine publicly broken • th Corountet barrier of the ,. See 128-24411, 11 Fob, 1953, subject, tas TREAT (qv) (ar 201-6205-7). •▼aloe of Chine" publication and having denounced bosh becking air, De3 4888 Le fo”
“throw all his energies into a job he saw he could do - edit and publish an organ in China which could help mobilise the forces of this country for struggle against the Kuomintang and 1 the imperialists by exposing the regime of terror and ■ privation which they have in commo”
“service failed to secure any response from the communist preseo-oiind abroad. After about three men the I had to suspend it for '■ lack of support. It simply aidh’t get published except* . in a few organs which were not official Communist party papers, Including, the New Yor”
“present at the ceremony were: Members of the Standing Committee of the Rational People's Congress Ma Chun-ku, Cu Tang- liang. Pel Shih-chang. Teng Chu-min, Lu Han, Shih Liang, Chuang Hsi-chuan, Chu Liang-tsai, Ten Chi-tzu. Wu YU-hsun, Wu Leng-hsi. Chang Yun, Chen Chi-han. Wu ”
“united Vietnam, feeling that Ho was independent enough of China to make him at worst a sort of Tito. 4. Subject presently is despairing of United States foreign relations in that our people from Washington, or elsewhere, seldom seen to establish ' a deep rapport with Asian o”
“interesting person. CLA33 was a Leftist, but not at all a Communist. HAROLD took a trip up the Yangtze with GLASS in 1930 or 1931. At about this time, i HAROLD became a convert to Trotskyism, partly, at least, under GLASS'S influence. He felt that "suffering humanity" required”
“-00000 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM 27 NOV 1963 TO: Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence Department of the Army Attention: Chief, Counterintelligence Branch Security Division FROM: Deputy Director, Plans SUBJECT: ISAACS, Harold Robert 1. Reference to made to the reques”
“1 4-00000 CLASSIFICATION DISPATCH SYMBOL we NIBLA CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH SECRET UTSA - 543 6. Subject’s mind was set on China and in late 1931 he wout to Shanghai and joined The China Prosa, working alongside Tiliman DURDIN, noy of the Key York Tices. Subject lost his j”
“14-00000 SECRET n rasa 0075289 3. According to predecessor organization information, Subject was also employed as a staff writer for the Havas News Agency in Shanghai during the period 1930-1935 and was a member of the Society of Friends of the USSR and of the China Leagu”
“14-00000 -3- "Far Eastern rrosa Corrasgondenoo," cable address Fenprecop, P. Q. Box 1920. On Cotobor Oth Isaacs and C. Frank Glass moved from 120 Wolhaiwei Road to House No. 6, Passage No. 177, Avenue Dubail. The police state that this address was formerly known as Number ”
“thought it his moral obligation to let them 'fry in any troublo they might got into as Communist agents. Gauss can’t. , have suffered greatly, for this in the eyes of his superiors, for ho me - later promoted to ambassador both to China and to Australia.. .8. This background ”
“-7- for the fate to which he and bie wife were condemned. I ask you to recall the whole period of the organisa- tion and activities of the China-League for Civil Rights, from December, 1933, to June, 1933, in which I took an' native part. I gave full vlay to this hybrid Lea”
“Lyfoxmans, : BLAr wne at then tim a clem, asgociot a of Barold Z063, who re said to have beun exiqwlin Chartanet ia 3933 no editor of the "China Ireun’, doecribed 8s Oe ammiat publication A LASERARS source unices reliability has noted that in 1033 I LAGS ers a “notorious radi”
“active. .part. ..I gave full play to this hybrid League and its v work without once publishing the basio criticleno which I often voiced to you and which in the end were wholly confirmed by what happened after tho Kuo Min Tang murdered Yang Chier in June that year. I ask you”
“idealism." Immediately after Pearl Harbor, ISAACS broke with the Trotskyite group as he bad broken with the Communists and began writing propaganda for the United States Government. - 3. According to a report dated 25 June 1951 from a fairly reliable source. Subject served a”
“prominently concerned that the Left Opposition were stoutly and clearly opposed to the Foochow regime. I haven’t place here to discuss the relations of the C.P. to the short-lived Fukien Government or the char- acter of the "negotiations" which were going on down there. The impor”
“scarcely understood then why this service failed to secure any response from the Communist press abroad. After about three months I had to suspend it for lack of support. It simply didn't get / published except in a few organs which were not official! Communist Party papers,”
“foreign exploitation of this issue; Malcolm was interviewed by "Revolution" in Cairo, which has since proved its enthusiastic anti-Americanism. .5. OFP-14693 reports that Philip BART, a pro-Soviet official of the CPUSA, stated in December 1964 that the CPUSA has positive proo”
“each passing day." . ; Vice Prenfer L1 Hsien-nien wished the experts success in their work ard good health.! In conclusion, he said: "Let us work together to better promote the cutual understand ing and militant friendship between the Chinese people and the people of other c”
“from a friend who was in a high position A 1-Ev there who urged him not to do anything that could be considered anti-Soviet.1 Ana they Mid that really This was some time before - in the spring./ He should be returning home. But he has no intention of returning. ((my)) - qui”
“0000 EOXXe. agmurta for the Third International in S.A. 4 In addition to the above individuals, Du din in also reported to have been an sequair tanco in Shang’sai about 1932-33 of Veorga Alomsf PrEHRuY, who- La proasntly miployed cl Yale University. KEZINEUY ves an acquitt”
“oven proving his good faith by bringing manuscripts that were originally destined for Revolution. That Verges knew anything about that I seriously doubt . This went on to such an extent that Maspero told Andersson. Andersson said, "why he has launched terrible campaign against”
“14-00000 SECRET ZP CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ADSO SODB-20568 WASHINGTON 25, D. C. DEC 2 1949 via Adoo 2DEC49 AAOZAXDJ. FE 3— Attention: * Dore boss H. Ingoraall MICROFILMED FEB 31966 . Jubjecti o Harold bobert IhAAda M,RO, BER. .. 1. this 10 in reply to vr. Jack”
“14-00000 27 March 1945 To: Lieutenant Colonel ROGER A. PFAFP From: John I. Coddington Subject: HAROLD ROBERT ISAACS Mr. GEORGE N. KATES of 033, R&A, has just returned to the United States from Chungking. He reached Washington yesterday. He claims to have known HAROLD RO”