“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”
“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”
“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 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 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 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 ”
“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”
“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 ”
“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”
“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”
“% 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”
“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”
“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 ”
“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 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 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”
“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”
“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”
“-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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“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 ”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“• 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”
“.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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“14-00000 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”
“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”
“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”
“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 ------------------------------------------”
“/ .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 Copy: Csp: fire RISS 913-Draam, Harold BOUPCE; de* PASSES, New York/City, October 22, 1936 - Page 12 EUROPE‘3 CRISIS; JAPAN PREPARES By ilensu Chen •00. There are numerous American journalists of . different political color and shades of opinion who are “co”
“Enclosure No. 1 to despatch No. American Consul General nt Share 09 rd of Edwin 3. Cunningham, , China, dated December 10, 1031, on the subject: "Harold K. Isaacs." g0ax 1 AN oxs, r3 to Mir ICH DRAT. Your publication of the "chastly" (Shanghai Times), "horrible" (China ”
“everybody that stands in our way. No sycophantic, blind, allegiance to a name, an empty facade, a torn and shredded prestige can lead us forward. Only unswerving fidelity to our goal and active struggle towards this end with the weapons of a correct and tested political line”