John A. Gentry

So there'd be students' groups, there'd be professors' groups, there'd be women's groups, labor groups, and so on.

And they would recruit people under false circumstances and, in essence, get these people to push lines and push programs that were consistent with Soviet interests.

And they would call these things innocence clubs.

because he was able to fool so many people so much of the time.

They were innocents.

T-S at the end.

So using this word as a noun.

Well, the Soviets pushed this very hard through all of their affiliates around the world, through the Communist International, the Comintern,

There was a variant of that here in the United States called the Communist Party of the USA, which still exists.

Yes.

Yes.

So this was formed, again, a little over 100 years ago and still exists.

And so if you want to look online, actually, you can find a newspaper that they publish every day.

Wow.

People's world.

I have a friend, as an aside, I have a friend who has eclectic interests of various sorts, and he looks at conservative press.

He also gets a subscription to the Washington Post and to the Communist Party paper, and he sees very little difference between the Washington Post and the Communist Party paper.

Very interesting.

So they're still operating.

Again, this is a legacy of the Soviet Union.