List of documents reproduced in facsimile

A note on the documents

Glossary of individuals and organizations

Chronology of American Communism

Background

Clandestine habits : the 1920s and the early 1930s

The secret apparatus of the CPUSA : the early years

The secret apparatus branches out

Other faces of the secret world

The American Communist Party, the secret apparatus, and the NKVD

The American Communist underground fights World War II

Soviet intelligence and American Communists, 1942-1945

Conclusion

Appendix A : The archival record

Appendix B : Organization of the American Communist Party

Selected readings.