Frederick Vanderbilt Field

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Frederick Vanderbilt Field (April 13, 1905 – February 1, 2000) was active in the communist movement through most of his adult life. Field served as Executive Secretary of the American Peace Mobilization. He was arrested during the McCarthy era for refusing to reveal names.

His mother, Lila Vanderbilt Sloane Field, was a direct descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

[edit] Further reading

  • Whittaker Chambers, Witness (New York: Random House, 1952), 382;
  • Scheidt to Director, 31 January 1947, FBI Silvermaster file (FBI file 65-56402), serial 1976
  • FBI Silvermaster file (PDF format pg. 67) pg. 335 in original
  • FBI Silvermaster file (PDF format pgs. 58, 60) pgs. 457, 459 in original
  • Alexander Vassiliev, Untitled Notes on Anatoly Gorsky’s December 1948 Memo on the Failed American Networks (2003)
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