Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century, is based on an unprecedented volume of declassified materials from Soviet archives, FBI files, and more, and is being hailed as groundbreaking. Herb Meyer, special assistant to the CIA director from 1981-87, says that Dupes “alters our understanding of the 20^th century.” Big Peace’s own Peter Schweizer calls it the “21^st century equivalent” to Whittaker Chambers’ classic Witness.

In our two previous interviews (click here and here), Kengor looked at Ted Kennedy, and specifically the late senator’s confidential overtures to the Kremlin, made against both President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan. Today, Kengor considers Frank Marshall Davis, a mentor to a young man named Barack Obama.

Big Peace: Frank Marshall Davis is probably the biggest revelation in your book, given his relevance today and the materials you’ve found on him that no one else has reported, which you reproduce in the book. You show that he was an actual communist. But first, let’s establish his relationship with Barack Obama.

http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2010/10/17/big-dupes-at-big-peace-frank-marshall-davis-obama-mentor-part-1/