How the Soviet Union saved Arnold Lockshin's life... (8)
/3/ Give Lockshin enough rope for him to hang himself. The five years I spent as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin Madison were – except for my early childhood – my best years in the United States. Or so it seemed.
I was – like almost all honest Americans – naive about the machinations of the omnipresent U.S. lie, spy, criminal, provocation, subversion and regime change, terror, drug-runnning, torture, war and mass murder apparatus. I did not know that the spy setup organized against me in Madison also included my major professor in the Department of Biochemistry and all my lab-mates, my roommates, the Green Lantern Co-op where I took most of my meals, presumed “comrades” in anti-Vietnam war protests, etc.
It appeared that I had free rein and that somehow American “democracy” was sort of alive and well, at least as far as I was personally concerned. I was even elected graduate representative for the UW student council, was able to publish several articles in the student newspaper, The Daily Cardinal, and even get some letters to the editor published in the Madison press.
My relatively easy time in Madison let me combine training as a research scientist with vigorous participation in progressive politics – mainly organizing opposition to the fearsome U.S. war against the Vietnamese and other Indochinese peoples. I also took the lead in catalyzing the largest civil rights demonstration at the time in Madison, where the Rev. James Shuttlesworth, a close associate of Martin Luther King, was the main speaker.
/4/ Becoming a “real” professional revolutionary. As I was getting close to concluding my graduate research and attaining my Ph.D. degree, Frank Wilkinson came to Madison and implored me to join his National Committee to Abolish HUAC (the U.S. House of Representatives UnAmerican Activities Committee) and become the director of a projected New England office. At the time, I saw Wilkinson as a brave fighter for justice, when in fact he was a rotten fink like virtually all the other full time “progressives” and “revolutionaries” I ran into. I was flattered to be asked and saw this as an opportunity for me to become deeply involved in what I thought was “real politics.” I abandoned my scientific career (temporarily as it turned out) and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to open a small office there (late 1965 to mid-late 1967).
My acceptance of full time movement activism meant for the FBI-US Gestapo that I could be used in any way they saw fit; no holds barred. I was fair game and unsuspecting.
My apparent success in anti-HUAC endeavors was considerable, as “I” was able to organize hundreds of law professors and then hundreds of Catholic priests to publicly call for the abolition of HUAC. In fact, as I know now, it was the U.S. secret political police who facilitated these successes (see previous material in these posts). With the rise of the civil rights and anti-war movements, HUAC was becoming an anachronism and was on its way out anyhow.
While in the Boston-Cambridge area, I was “accepted” as a member of the “Communist Party USA” - only after I asked to join (rather than having been actively recruited). Another confirmation of my convictions. Very naive Arnold thought that he had found his genuine political home with like-minded “comrades”. Naturally, all this was a filthy farce.
At the instigation of my “comrades,” I left the largely redundant anti-HUAC business and spent a largely wasted year “organizing” a so-called peace coalition called “PACEM”, which in fact was nothing more than a unproductive diversion from the established peace movement “Massachusetts PAX” (nonetheless, also filled with finks).
/5/ “Love” comes into my life. At about this time, Lauren Brown – whom I had “met” (an arranged meeting, as described earlier) in the summer of 1967 – on her volition moved to the Cambridge area to be closer to me. She was pretty, apparently affectionate and shared, as I was led to believe, my values. For several months we lived together in a dilapidated apartment in Somersville, just outside of Cambridge and within walking distance of Harvard University. Then I proposed marriage.
/6/ Back to science – no problem. PACEM was going nowhere, and I had to find real work. In the fall of 1968 I phoned Dr. Lawrence Bogorad, who had earlier offered me a post-doctoral position in his laboratory at the University of Chicago. Bogorad had moved to Harvard, and I was somewhat surprised that he readily and promptly acceded to my request for post-doctoral work in his lab. The work went along fine, with the publication of a major paper on the results. Bogarad even asked me to give a couple of lectures in the course he was teaching, took the lead in advancing me to the position of Lecturer in Biology and, according to what I was told, was then prepared to recommend my appointment as an assistant professor in the department.
But the pull of movement activism outweighed my scientific “success” and apparently inviting personal prospects. With all the hell going on in the world, I firmly decided that I had to become a professional revolutionary and, as described earlier, I opted to become a full time organizer for the “Communist” Party, USA.
/7/ The breeding of illusions. With all the “success” I was enjoying, it was easy to succumb to certain illusions about the real politics of United States imperialism. Notwithstanding the brutal murder of millions of Vietnamese people – only one of the U.S. ruling class' monstrous crimes – some kind of semi-democratic postulates seemed to be operating within America itself.
Genuine communist Arnold Lockshin had found success in his studies and scientific research; “love” had come his way and marriage was in the offing. And he could pursue his revolutionary aspirations with genuine “comrades” who shared his world vision. After all, a “Leninist communist” party was functioning in the country, notwithstanding all.
Boy, was I wrong.
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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com
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