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I found something about its orgins with the business plot. From Wikipedia:
The McCormack-Dickstein Committee was the precursor to the former House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC); its materials are archived with those of the HUAC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCormack-Dickstein#McCormack-Dickstein_Committee
on January 3, 1934, the opening day of the second session of the 73rd Congress, Dickstein introduced a resolution calling for the formation of a special committee to probe un-American activities in the United States. The “Dickstein Resolution” (H.R. #198) was passed in March 1934, with John McCormack named Chairman and Samuel Dickstein Vice-Chairman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Dickstein_(congressman)
I hope this helps in the search a bit.
Comment by Kevin — 1/21/2007 @ 3:13 pm | Edit This
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I hit a wall when I found this.
H. Res. 198, 73d Cong., 2d Sess., 78 Cong. Rec. 4934, 4949
You’re right, it just dosent exist on the internet.
ME:
But, Kevin, you found what we were looking for! One footnote to the Wikipedia article says,
“Samuel Dickstein New York, Vice Chairman. Evidence was later shown from the Soviet archives that Dickstein was a Soviet spy. ”
Nowhere else, NOWHERE else will you find this on the Internet.
By hte way, Kickstein had an appropriate name, like Elie Wiesel. He was the ONLY American official ofhte many onthe Soviet payroll whose code name was an insult to him. He was such a greedy, nasty little New York Jew os such an extreme sort htat even his KGB contacts, Eastern European Jews themselves, couldn’t stand him.
This is the last you will hear about him. All the discussion of HUAC is about how it said that there were Soviet agents in the United States Government and how wrong it was. He has ceased to exist, like the Medicogenetical Institute of Moscow.
#1 by Pain on 01/22/2007 - 12:40 am
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Keep giving this find prominence here.
The Wikipedia article will likely be censored now; anyone can do it. Wikipedia can hang on to good information just so long as no one can tell why it is important.
#2 by Alan on 01/22/2007 - 9:16 am
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While sitting in the U.S. Congress, Dickstein was a Communist agent for the Soviet secret police, earning $1,250 a month for his treasonous services in the midst of the Depression! Appropriately, the NKVD’s codename for him was CROOK.
Dickstein wanted to start a anti Nazi smear campaign in America, another objective he envisioned was the distruction of all groups he deemed right wing or most likly anti communist. Dickstein would later raise hell when the House Committee on Un-American began focusing on Communist infiltration in hight levels of American society, he made an acusation that the committy was infiltrated by facists. What saved his ass was the simpathy for the poor persecuted Jews and the socialist bias in the american press.
Dickstein was chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. In November 1933, Dickstein’s Immigration Committee began official hearings into “Nazi” activities in the United States.
#3 by richard on 01/22/2007 - 10:25 am
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A good account of Dickstein’s work as a Soviet agent can be found in Allen Weinstein’s “The Haunted Wood.” Dickstein, who immigrated from Lithuania with his parents when he was six years old, was apparently motivated to spy for the Soviets more by money than ideology.
Though he was the father of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, he only served on it for a couple of years, and, according to Walter Goodman, a student of the HUAC, regretted his role in establishing it for the rest of his life.
Though Dickstein worked assidously for his NKVD handlers (who paid him a regular salary), they viewed him with a great deal of disgust, characterizing him in a memo found in the KGB archives by Weinstein’s co-author, Alexander Vassiliev, as “a complete racketeer and a blackmailer.”
In Congress, Dickstein was best know for his role as chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, a post that enabled him to increase his income considerably since his law firm, of which his brother was a partner, specialized in immigration affairs.
When Dickstein left Congress, he was elected to the New York State Supreme Court, serving as a judge between 1946-1954. As Weinstein notes, Dickstein’s involvement in the spy trade “left no visible mark on his public career.”
http://volokh.com/posts/1125596465.shtml