By contrast, Richard N. Perle, assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration, said the Pugwash leaders were "definitely Communist dupes."

Testimony was taken by the Committee against Michigan Governor Frank Murphy during his re-election bid in 1938, by witnesses who proclaimed that Murphy was "a Communist or a Communist dupe".

"Over about a two-year period, then, Mossadeq's portrait would change from that of a quaint nationalist to that of near lunatic to one, finally, of Communist dupe."

He openly called supporters of integration "suburban liberals," and suggested they were "Communist dupes."

Certainly he was no "Communist dupe."

The old diehard, Lord Winterton, asked whether they were 'due to Communist dupes of the Third International, including the Communist party in this country?'

He does not exculpate Hearst, the propagandist who signed up Hitler and Mussolini and flayed Franklin D. Roosevelt as a Communist dupe.

They told me that Minton had once been fired by the State Department for his softness toward communism, and the Communist dupes or worse had had him reinstated.

He lost no opportunity to portray Douglas as at best a Communist dupe and at worst a secret agent of the Kremlin.

Republicans had triumphantly Red-baited in the 1946 Congressional elections, and in 1948 the venerable New Dealer Henry Wallace was painted as a Communist dupe during his Presidential run.