Panetta Report 1: Leon Panetta Paid Tribute to Two Longtime Communists

Leon Panetta

In 1983, then Congressman, Leon Panetta, placed a tribute in the Congressional Record to two of his Santa Cruz, California constituents.

The couple, Hugh DeLacy and his wife Dorothy Baskin DeLacy, both had long histories with the  Communist Party USA and were very active in the Santa Cruz “progressive” movement that had helped nurture Congressman Panetta’s career.

Phrases like “social justice” and “dark forces of McCarthyism” rolled from Rep. Panetta’s pen, in a piece that would not have been out of place in the Communist Party’s Peoples Daily World.

Panetta makes it very clear he sympathizes with his constituents’ world view in the last paragraph.

The struggle of the DeLacy’s, their commitment and their integrity, reinforces our own faith and conviction that the cause of social justice will triumph in the end. I commend their work, and i join in their hope and their belief in a better world tomorrow for all of us.

The DeLacy’s were not merely Panetta’ s constituents – they were close personal friends. Hugh DeLacy was also a longtime correspondent with whom Panetta regularly discussed defense and foreign policy issues.

The DeLacys were also not mere Communist Party hacks, or low level time servers.

Jim Forest

Dorothy Baskin, served as a Party organizer in Missouri, Colorado and allegedly California. In Missouri she was sentenced, in 1952, to three years jail under the Smith Act, for conspiring to overthrow the US government by force.

Dorothy DeLacy’s first husband, Jim Forest, was a high level Party functionary in several states. he too was jailed in Missouri and spent some time behind bars, before all the Smith Act convictions were eventually overturned. From 1969 to 1974, Forest toured the world on the Kremlins’ rouble as a Secretary of the Soviet front World Peace Council, before settling back into Communist Party work in San Francisco.

Hugh DeLacy, 1940s

Hugh DeLacy was a covert Communist Party member from at least the early 1940s, including through his 1944-46 term as a Democratic Congressman from Washington State. He  went on to work for the Party in Ohio and California, well into the late 1960s.

It is not known when, or if, Hugh DeLacy ever left the Communist Party. In the 1970s, he was close to a network of former Party members who went on to form the neo-Marxist and pro-Chinese New American Movement. In the 1970s and 1980s, Hugh DeLacy traveled to Communist China, Sandinista controlled Nicaragua and to Lisbon, to meet with senior officials of the Portuguese Communist Party.

Hugh Delacy also maintained contact with several “former” Soviet spies, two of whom who had gone on to work for the Communist Chinese government. He certainly remained a committed Marxist-Leninist up until his death in 1986.

If a Republican appointee had even a whiff of ties to the Ku Klux Klan, or a white power group, he would be quite rightly hauled over the coals by the US media and the Senate.

Yet Leon Panetta is in line for one of the most important jobs in the United States government,  and has yet to face one single question over his extensive communist and socialist connections.

What are the consequences if Leon Panetta has in some way been compromised by past associations, or indiscretions?

Should the  guardians of the Republic, in the US Senate and the media, allow such questions to go unasked and unanswered?

Panetta Report 2 here

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35 thoughts on “Panetta Report 1: Leon Panetta Paid Tribute to Two Longtime Communists

  1. Andropov probably never really believed that they would someday infiltrate our power structure to this degree… hard to forgive the people that voted for the Bolshevik Boy Wonder without doing a speck of DD

  2. At every level of the Obama Regime we find Communists and assorted fellow travelers, yet Americans were sold and bought the “Hope and Change” without ever asking, change to what? From the onset of of Obama’s run for President I recognized his “Commie speak” talking of freedom and democracy words that to him and fellow communists mean something completely different that what the average American takes them to mean.

    We are in HUGE trouble in America. The America our Founders created is all but gone and Obama and his cadre of Communists are hell bent on pushing the last our freedoms over the cliff into his brave new world.

  3. Trevor, your link to part 2 is not activated. Anxiously awaiting the 2nd part of this so that I may contact my Senators. Thank you for the work you do in exposing the evils in our administration!

  4. It appears that almost every high level official in this administration has communist/Marxist ties, yet the media refuses to connect the dots. Your research is outstanding, Trevor. Thanks for shining some much-needed light on these “liberals”.

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