He Lived Two Lives: The FBI Man Who Pretended to Be a Communist
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He Lived Two Lives: The FBI Man Who Pretended to Be a Communist
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Fear and curiosity collide: a Baptist youth leader who ran a seaside shop spent nine years inside the CPUSA while secretly feeding the FBI names, meetings and directives - then stood in Foley Square to testify at the 1949 Smith Act trial. How does a man who lived two lives reckon with a government payment record and a sudden public unmasking?
In this episode, we trace Herbert Arthur Arthur’s path from advertising executive and church youth leader to undercover informant, his infiltration of Young Communist League cells and the professional cell tied to the 1948 Wallace campaign, and the courtroom moment that made his secret public. What did his memories of rooms and voices add that documents could not?
Person: Herbert Arthur Arthur
Date (birth): May 11, 1915
Date (trial testimony): April 6, 1949
Location: Foley Square, lower Manhattan
Event: Smith Act trial of eleven Communist Party leaders
- Arthur was 24 years old in 1940 and grew up in North Hampton, New Hampshire, in Little Boar's Head.
- He contacted the FBI of his own initiative around 1940 and then spent nine years acting as an informant inside communist organizations.
- His infiltration progressed from the Cambridge Youth Council to the Young Communist League, then to full membership in the Communist Party USA and cells in Wakefield and Malden, Massachusetts.
- The professional cell he joined was tasked with supporting Henry A. Wallace’s 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign.
- On April 6, 1949, Arthur testified in federal court in lower Manhattan, providing firsthand accounts of internal cell structures and activities used by the prosecution in the Smith Act case.
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