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| '''Isador Feinstein Stone''' (better known as '''I.F. Stone''') (], ] – ], ]) was an iconoclastic ] investigative ] best known for his influential political newsletter, ''I.F. Stone's Weekly ''. | |||
| Stone was born in ]. His parents were ] ]ish immigrants who owned a store in ], ]. He studied ] at the ], and as a student he wrote for the '']''. | |||
| After leaving university he joined the ''Camden Courier-Post''. Influenced by the work of ], Stone became a radical journalist. In the 1930s he played an active role in the ] opposition to ]. | |||
| Stone moved to the '']'' in 1933 and during this period supported ] and the ]. His first book, ''The Court Disposes'' (1937), was a defence of Roosevelt's attempt to expand the ]. | |||
| After leaving the ''New York Post'' in 1939, Stone became associate editor of '']''. His next book, ''Business as Unusual'' (1941), was an attack on the country's failure to prepare for war. ''Underground to Palestine'' (1946) dealt with the migration of ]an ]s at the end of the ]. | |||
| In 1948 Stone joined the ''New York Star''. Later he moved to the ''Daily Compass'' until it ceased publication in 1952. A critic of the emerging ], Stone published the ''Hidden History of the Korean War'' that same year. | |||
| One of Stone's more famous books, ''The Hidden History of the Korean War'' published in ], alleged that the United States and ] planned for the conflict and initiated hostilities. Documents from Soviet era archive show that Stone was wrong in his assesment and that ] and ] orchestrated the ]. | |||
| Inspired by the achievements of the muckracking journalist ] and his political weekly, ''In Fact'', Stone started his own political paper, ''I.F. Stone's Weekly'' in ]. Over the next few years, Stone campaigned against ] and ] in the United States (in ], Stone's name was included in the ]'s list of the 82 most active and typical sponsors of ] in the ]). In 1964 Stone was the only American journalist to challenge President ] account of the ] incident. | |||
| During the 1960s Stone continued to criticize the ]. His newsletter enjoyed a circulation of 70,000 but in 1971 ill-health forced Stone to cease publication. After his retirement, he learned ] and wrote a book about the trial and death of ] called '']''. | |||
| Although considered by many a standard for independent investigative journalism, much has been said of Stone's involvement with the ]. It appears that Stone accepted lunch meetings with members of the KGB from 1944 to 1968, and Stone was identifed as BLIN in ] cables . ], a former major general in the KGB who had worked as a press officer at the Soviet embassy in Washington, has also verified these claims. There have been a few stories linking him as an agent, but research is inconclusive on his activities . The East German government at one point held 15,000 subscriptions of ''The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader''. | |||
| Stone apparently sought to sever his ties with the KGB after traveling to the Soviet Union in 1956 and hearing ]'s speech denouncing Stalin and the tyranny of his regime, but Kalugin managed to convince Stone to resume their relationship. Stone apparently severed all ties to the Soviets after the ] Czechoslovakian uprising and subsequent quelling of the revolt. | |||
| ==Quotes== | |||
| "You may just think I am a red Jew son-of-a-bitch, but I'm keeping Thomas Jefferson alive." | |||
| ==Books== | |||
| * ''The Court Disposes'' (1937) | |||
| * ''Business as Unusual'' (1941) | |||
| * ''Underground to Palestine'' (1946) | |||
| * ''The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950-1951'' (1952) | |||
| * ''The War Years, 1939-1945'' | |||
| * ''The Truman Era, 1945-1952'' | |||
| * ''The Haunted Fifties'' (1969) | |||
| * ''Polemics and Prophecies, 1967-1970'' (1970) | |||
| * ''The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader'' (1973) | |||
| * ''The Trial of Socrates'' (1988) | |||
| ==External link== | |||
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