“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”
“14-00000 C” OCT 15 Special RETURN TO: Tainor 10/14/63 caw FILE #151-1423_______ _ - -.. PC BUDED: 11/11a US NAME: ISAACS, HAROLD ROBERT BORN: Sept. 13, 1910, NYC, BY MS: married Viola Robinson, dob June 20, 1910, NYC, NY married Shanghai, Sept. 14, 1932 ADDRESSES::”
“14-00000 -2- HAROLD ROBERT ISAACS, continued. height of his Trotskyist career, ISAACS never accepted money from the group. He was always open and above-board, and never engaged in any conspiracies to overthrow established government. He was attracted to the movement, they”
“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”
“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 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”
“Post, Shanghai, China, reporter 1030, Honolulu Advertiser, Zonolulu, reporter - 1936-1930 /Q-w.YR/{ ll745-/yp/re/eR FOREIGN TRAVEL: China, 1930 to 1935, Travol, work, writing China, Burma, India, 1944, to 1945, war corros. Newsweek PI, India, Indonesia, 1949 to 1949, Kowswo”
“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”
“14-00000 -3- ‘HAROLD ROBERT ISAACS, continued 1 The book was completed, and ISAACS and hie wife returned to the United States about April or May 1935. Immediately after this, ISAACS made a papid trip to Oslo, Norway, to see his hero, LEONI TROTSKY, who was living there at ”
“% 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 -3- HAROLD RORSRT ISAACS, continued "One Man’s Fight against Corruption: the Story behind the Stilwell Incident," Newsweek, p. 44. 13 Nov. 1944 i "Troupers of the CBI," Newsweek, p. 100, 13 Nov. 1944 7 "Ignorant Men and Modern Weapons: Inside Story of the Chinese”
“-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”
“4-00000 - Erci-3/778,850 1 3 A404 DW A404 63. 166- FE FF. . TELEPHONE HBTEn AOS NAMS CERSK. POP P; NaS CHECK comheL J87 PEL ACSI - Lt. Whipple via Jane Roman 14 Oct 63 Ekit Pt- Moran. Chested Rte Heply ISAACS, Harold Robert. Dlls AnO lViRi born 1910 SET ADS ”
“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”
“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 ”
“Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu, reporter Pro FOREIGN TRAVEL: China, 1930 to 1935, Travel, work, writing --- China, Burma, India, 1944, to 1945, war corres. Newsweek PI, India, Indonesia, 1949 to 1949, Nesswook NOV assignment Puillippines, 1950 to 1950, cover Baguo conference”
“1 4-00000 13 March 1945 To: Lieutenant Colonel ROGER A. PFAFF From: John I. Coddington J.J. 6. Subject: HAROLD ROBERT ISAACS ti HAROLD ROBERT ISAACS is now the correspondent of Newsweek ragasine in Enrols Robert China. His headquarters are in Chungking, but he evident”
“14-00000 MAKEi Harold R. Isaacs 1 ADDRESS (last known - ‘43), 383 Central Park Yfest, H.Y. C. DAZE oP BIRTH: 1910 I NATIONALITY: American BUSIZESS CARDER: (a) Staff writer for Havas News Agonaya (1930-1936) (b) ditor of Olna Forum (a) City Editor for China Preps, Shangha”
“Frans Joseph WEISBLATT, Harold ISAACS, Frans GLASS, ALEXANDER BASSLER BUCHMAN and George Alexander Kennedy, and that he could furnish info on their early activities only. 3. DURDIN said that he knows Harold Isaacs well and that he last sam him at the conferer ce: in Baguido ”
“contracted, I disposed of the plant and turned every farthing of th e - proceed: oven to whore 1 now consider the t/ire interests : of our movement lie. It was with a deep and Abiding.". : bitterness that I had to see the Forum go down under the blows of those whom I had con”
“magazine was regarded as a "thorn in the flesh" by Mr. CUNNINGHAM, who was at that time American Consul-General in Shanghai. There were various controversies —the printing shop was broken up by Kuomintang strong-arm men; the sails were refused to the magazine; but he continued”
“14-00000 ISAACS COUrRIss 1931-1936 China(D.B 7861) IS H ^^A- Robert Isaacs Winking MIT Cantea %lakesy S^^en) 1, "Five Years of Kuomintamn Reaction", a 130 pace pa-ghlet published n 1932 at Shanghai, lists 1 :ISAACS as Editor. The pamphlet consists,of reprints of articles”
“7100 -Isaaur, Harold December 2, 1932. No. 1480. ~.% :,% 2. -PR-. MEMON A’N 3 U . 81th reference to R.A. memorandum No. 1305 of December 4, 1931, regarding Harold ISAACS and his ecnneotion with Hilaire NCULENS, it has just been learned that one Viola ROBIN CN arrived i”
“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”
“Tiendong Road,Shanghai ISAACS openedly atated he was man-- agor of the printing co and owned 4QS of its shared.. N.r On 7. Aug 1933; ISAAC and his wife Viola ROBINSON when he had married in Sept 0*5 1932 lets Shanghai for Japan on the 3S Hagasaki Maru: On 16 Aug, they proceede”
“.3: 2605. © 5.. : K has been stated friends of ISAACS even during the height of his Trot- skyist careory be never accepted money framn any group; that he was open and above board; and that ho never engaged in any conspiracies to overthrow established govern ment. Thay are”
“14-00000 ( CiASSfiCatiGE GACTION 10 DISPATCH SECRET eg son incline Chief; DO XX Jwr nocung sroumro 0’1 lom. QUALI 80 DS In sect DUG FROM WOMACE Representative, Boston. Iecoruu SUBJECT ISOLOG/WUSPARROW/Operational Dr. Harold R. ISAACS, Professor of Political Scien”
“1 4-00000 No. 8019 9 80 Fraser, Harold Confidentin):, ARERICAN CAN ULAS SERVICE. American Consulate Ceneral, Shanghai, China, Deconber 10, 1931• Subject: Hlorold H. Isaacs. :THE HONORABLE Ms SECTARY (7 STATE, WASHINGTON, _Birr 9 I have the honor to report that an ”
“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”
“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 0551-In or,Harold R. EE COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES FILES FILE NO. SOURCE: D.W. S-4-32 DATE: EDITOR OF CHINA d 1 r : PAPER IN DANGER 1 • ------ ‘i 12. Threat to Turn Isaacs r Over to Nanking Xcy •v.q.; --------- ‘.i : BRANGHAL, Aug. 2.—The, Wall , Street gove”
“• tarra % 2. Ch 3 January 1934, ISAACS visited Hr and Mros NOULSKS while they were on a hunger strike in prison: - On 1. January 1934, the parents of ISAACS, Mr and Mro I.H., ISAACS arrived in . Shanghai from Los Angeles. During their stay in Shanghai they resided at the Me”
“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”
“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”
“as I know. I do not know the names of the people who were good enough to contribute to the Forum but their interest in the matter warrants placing before them the story of what happened to the magazine. I trust, out of simplefairness to me, you will be good enough to give th”
“police report states that a reply was subsequently receive the giet of which io aa follows: "Viola Robinson arrived in the United States about the middle of September. The whole fagily are communists in touch with Isaacs’ farily.” The police atete that Harold 2. Ianees in Bo”
“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”
“/ .064Loir NiS 4s anon. cote-i6,9 87 The. $ 3. 20 mandate :Far-? aw We ISAACS PUBLICATIONS’ 3 % 49 gS (t. wn81.". 4 9 -‘ in v'i' Brote an article entitled • I Break with the Stalinists" which allegedly among other things, that the expanses of publishing a mag”
“14-00000 %5 Ma-D’vencres Ar 19-121 € ECS uniepal Files, file: 37 ROBINSON, Vhola 0 ERS. H. R. ISAACS Barn 10 1910.NI Nat’l American Description Height 5850 Build slia Documentation 1932 issued NIC 14 1931 ighai on 23 Aug 1932 14 Sept 1932 married Harold Rober”
“tho Chinese Central Government that ISAACS had really changed since the old days in Shanghai; but this convication was evidently accomplished, or ISAACS would not have received permission from the Chinese Government to go to China. ISAACS is a very smart ran indeed. He knows a”
“4-00000 (09 • U J ISAACS, H ‘ *** Probably Harold R ODEET % : ..@ JACOB. FBI think that there is a possibility that the JACOB, an unidentified young Amer journalist in Shanghai, in 1931, 32 who was a member of the SORGE network in China might possibly be identical with ”
“London. Neither was ever published in the United States, and ISAACS said that the Stalinist Communist were so powerful in this country that they were able to prevent the publication of the Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution here. This ------------------------------------------”
“Communist and suspected Third International agent • A lankkkax R letter written by Isaacs to his fiance, Viola Robinson stated that he was turning "Red" as result of conversations with GLASS. Ather atater nts indicated athat Miss Hobinson an American then in Germany, was an a”
“14 To- « i contact with E E KI CH when the latter was lived 1930a Ar 509. Gr in BINGON ISAACS was WAG repo a tea in 3b 3, the ISAACS left Shanghai fo on August 1933 December 13. In del 1933 13 8hos gather hand formed O Peoblo Govurnmaigt of the Republic of China”
“SECRET (BNn Pilled 201 DOCUMENT TRANSFER AND CROSS REFERENCE SUBJECT Of DOCUMENT DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION RI FILE NO. 201-41, 3. S SPATC* 04 SOURCE GoC. SYWBOL No. • BATE AGNES SMEDLEY, WAS. RES-1461 ___ _ 28 atr. 50 7. CRVPTORYM •. DATE “F INFO. 9. EVALU4TIG9 3. ANALYS”
“Imperllaist powers may not be tried in the Chinese courts. Because Isaacs le an American citt- zen the Nanking government has not been able to wreack its vengeance on him for his exposure of their bloody terror and betrayal of the Chinese masses. The Wall Street Govern- ,”
“000 COPY Letter of H. R. Isaacs to the C.C.P. concern- ,nF To the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party: - The two-year period of my extra-organizational col laboration with the Chinese Communist Party has come to . an end (and the China Forum which I founde”
“14-00000 9100 Jasacs SOURCE: DAILY WORKER EUR Coxrnist ACTIVITIES FILES Date e.Oct. 23-1957 File No. x 4202 China 7 TROTZKYITE BOOK MOURNS OVER CHINESE REVOLUTION THE TRAGEDY 'OF THE CHI- of devious Trotskyite, -polemics. I NESE . REVOLUTION By Isaacs book, hat been”
“14-00000 Press Conference 7/30/32 9.000 Joanea direct to Paris for three or four days before proceeding to London. His visit to Parii is, therefore, strictly unofficial. FRANCS A correspondent asked if the French Government had asked the State Department for an agroment”
“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,”