the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to reenter the domestic security field and closely observe American communists for counterintelligence activities. Several secret apparatus operations where going on in the CPUSA. One in particular, led by J. Peters, engaged in the wholesale procurement of false American passports for use by American communists and Soviet intelligence for espionage purposes (Haynes 79). In the 1930's the party supplied several recruits for Soviet intelligence abroad. Two landed in European jails and one, sent to Asia, paid with his life. Also, in the 1930 and 40's, the CPUSA was involved in extensive spying on Stalin's ideological enemies. The party also had considerable involvement with the murder of Stalin's arch-rival, Leon Trotsky, who posed a threat to Soviet communism (Haynes 250). A little later they began to infiltrate into the closely guarded military scientific secret, the atomic bomb. "Theft of scientific and technical information constituted the earliest and perhaps the most widespread from of Soviet espionage in the U.S." (Haynes 287). Julius Rosenburg is best known for his role in Soviet atomic espionage. Rosenburg had been an engineering student at the College of the City of New York and a member of the Young Communist League and later recruited many of his colleagues into Soviet espionage (Haynes 295). Now the American government simply referred to the CPUSA as murderous villains or "puppets on strings held by Moscow" (Haynes 242). An anticommunist movement was quickly put into action. By the late 1940's just about every important sector of American society had representatives within the anticommunist network ranks (Schrecker 45). Although all American communists were not involved in Soviet espionage, the government quickly defined communists as villains. For quite sometime "the FBI had been engaged in the exhaustive task of compiling a compendium of legally admissible eviden...
