Benjamin Gitlow circa 1938–1939 Edit
DIES COMMITTEE TOLD RUSSIA SUBSIDIZED U.S. COMMUNIST PARTY WITH DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY. Testifying before the Dies committee today, Benjamin Gitlow, former General Secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, declared that the party was subsidized in its early years by diamonds and jewelry sent from Moscow. The jewelry and diamonds were converted into cash to be used to support the Communist Party in America, Gitlow explained.
- Date
- 1939-09-07
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 2,000 × 2,667 pixels
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