ABSTRACT
"Moscow gold" has fascinated students of American communism almost from the very moment there was an American Communist movement. Exposes about its reliance on Soviet financing have periodically embarrassed the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) but have not deterred party leaders from continuing to rely on Soviet money. Other ex-Communists confirmed that Soviet subsidies were commonplace into the mid-1930s. Yevgeny Lisov is currently in possession of the original documents, which he confiscated from the Communist party archives while investigating the coup attempt last August. By the end of the 1940s, American communism was once again on the defensive in the US, and Moscow was once again financing a significant percentage of the CPUSA budget. Morris made at least one trip a year to Moscow to pick up funds; Jack received cash from Soviet couriers in New York.
