Albert Eugene Kahn
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Description
Albert Eugene Kahn was an American journalist, photographer, author, and nephew of modernist industrial architect Albert Kahn. He is known chiefly for his books Sabotage! The Secret War Against America (1944), related to Nazi and German-American subversive activities in the United States; and The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia (1946). The latter described leading Soviet communists as foreign spies, based on their confessions at the Moscow Trials. For a time during the 1930s, Kahn had been a member of the Communist Party in the United States, but had changed his thinking by the 1940s and opposed it and the Cold War. In the late 1940s he was blacklisted and unable to gain publication by a mainstream publisher until 1962. In the early 1950s, he and Angus Cameron, an editor formerly with Little, Brown who had also been blacklisted, founded Cameron & Kahn publishers. Source: [Wikipedia](
Books
SABOTAGE
missing pages 73-74
The Matusow affair
During the McCarthy era, Harvey Matusow was a paid witness for Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. As an "expert" witness, he testified about Communist activities and Party members with whom he had come in contact. He claimed that Communists had infiltrated the Boy Scouts, had rewritten Mother Goose in order to indoctrinate children, and had lured new members with sex. He implicated trade unions, teachers, musicians, performers, and a host of others. Along with other professional witnesses, he became a national celebrity--but around him, lives were ruined. In 1954, appalled at the results of his testimony, he recanted much of it in a book titled False Witness, published by Cameron & Kahn, two men who had themselves been earlier victims of the witch hunt. This book is the story of Matusow's recantation and of the federal government's attempts to suppress it.--From publisher description.