Herbert romerstein biography

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  • Herbert "Herb" Romerstein was an American ex-communist and historian who became a writer specializing in anticommunism and was appointed Director of the U.S. Information Agency’s Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation and Active Measures.
  • Herbert "Herb" Romerstein (August 19, 1931 – May 7, 2013) was an American ex-communist and historian who became a writer specializing in anticommunism and.

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    Editor’s note: This article first appeared in The American Spectator.

    Every human life is special, unique, unrepeatable — to borrow from Pope John Paul II. Every loss of life is a loss. Some losses, however, seem larger, leaving a void no one else can fill. When some people go, too much goes with them. That’s undoubtedly the case with the loss of Herbert Romerstein, who died this week after a long illness. With Herb’s passing, we lose not only a good guy, but a vast reservoir of knowledge that is not replaceable. If only we could have downloaded the man’s brain. Alas, we could not, and our knowledge of the 20th century fryst vatten suddenly less than it was.

    Herb knew the Cold War and communist movement unlike anyone. He understood it because he lived it and breathed it. Born in Brooklyn in 1931, he himself had been a communist, having joined the Communist ungdom League before becoming a card-carrying member of Communist Party USA (CPUSA). He broke ranks over 60 years ago, the sista straw

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    Herbert Romerstein Collection Comes to the Hoover Archives

    NewsThe Hoover Institution has recently acquired Herbert Romerstein’s archives, the result of some sixty years of his research and collecting. When fully processed and registered, it will be Hoover’s largest collection on the subversive activities of communist action and communist front organizations in the United States and abroad, substantially complementing the holdings of two large Hoover collections with a similar focus: the US Subversive Activities Control Board records and the William T. Poole collection. Thursday, January 31, 2013 2 min read

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    Herbert  Romerstein, most recently a professor at the postgraduate Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC, is a specialist on espionage, Soviet political warfare, international terrorism, and internal security.  He is the author of such books as Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government (2012), The Venona Secrets:

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    Herbert Romerstein

    American historian

    Herbert Romerstein

    Born(1931-08-19)August 19, 1931

    Brooklyn, New York

    DiedMay 7, 2013(2013-05-07) (aged 81)

    Clinton, Maryland

    Occupation(s)ex-communist, federal government employee, historian, author
    MovementAnti-communism
    SpousePat
    ChildrenShari, David, Vicky, Becky
    RelativesWilliam Romerstein (brother)

    Herbert "Herb" Romerstein (August 19, 1931 – May 7, 2013) was an American ex-communist and historian who became a writer specializing in anticommunism and was appointed Director of the U.S. Information Agency’s Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation and Active Measures. As an author he is best known for his book The Venona Secrets (written with Eric Breindel).[1]

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    Herbert Romerstein was born in 1931 in Brooklyn, New York into a Jewish family of Sam (1883 – 6 October 1946) and Rose (29 March 1909 – 27 March 1970) Romerstein.[1] Two years after hi