CIA/OSS/FBI Socialists

[Michael Hoover]

> Herbert Marcuse remained with the CIA right up to the time of
> the Korean War. 
> Marcuse's CIA background was first publicly exposed over thirty years
> ago by the Progressive Labor Party in its newspaper, "Challenge."
> The attempted to use this revelation to "CIA-bait" the New Left
> generally, against whom they were waging a bitter struggle to
> for control of SDS.
> 
> >Marcuse started working for the OSS and was later employed by the
> >CIA. All this is described in the first volume of Marcuse's papers
> >(Technology, War and Fascism, ed Douglas Kellner).

retrieved above from my stored file...

Kellner's edited volume of Marcuse's papers does not describe his being 
'later employed by the CIA'...Kellner himself has told me that
allegations of a Marcuse-CIA connection are 'utter nonsense' (his
phrase)...Kellner rejects such charges in his introduction to 
_Technoloyy, War, and Fascism_ (p. 25)...

The PLP charge was in an unsigned, anonymous piece - 'Marcuse: Cop-out
or Cop' (Feb. 1969) that said more about the self-immolation of the
US New Left than anything else...Marcuse was being attacked at that 
time by Ronald Reagan and Gus Hall, PLP and American Legion, Kremlin 
and Vatican, Minutemen and Weathermen...in the 50s, both soc-dem 
Irving Howe and right-winger Eric Hoffer called Marcuse a Stalinist 
because he didn't unequivocally support '56 Hungarian uprising...

Marcuse's post-WW2 work was in Central European Branch of Office of 
Intelligence Research of US State Dept...he can be criticized for
initially thinking that he could have some impact in preventing the 
Cold War pull of US foreign policy and for remaining in job until 
1951 (although he claimed that latter was result of his wife's 
cancer)...he wrote about isolation and unhappiness of this period in
_Revolution or Reform_...Michael Hoover