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tration, gave speeches and organized
public events to promote the opening
of British Mandatory Palestine to
Holocaust survivors and the creation
of a Jewish state. The Bergson Group
supported the armed revolt against the
British that was being waged by the
Irgun Zvai Leumi, the militia led by
Menachem Begin.
The U.S. State Department tried to
curtail the Bergson Group's work by
instigating an FBI investigation of its
members, and Mr. Rosenblatt became
one of the prime targets of the inquiry.
Documents about the Bergson Group
obtained by the David S. Wyman
Institute for Holocaust Studies under
the Freedom of Information Act reveal
that the FBI planted informants in the
group, opened its leaders' mail and
even sifted through their trash, search-
ing for evidence that Mr. Rosenblatt
and other Bergson activists were corn-
munists.
One internal FBI report made much
of the fact that "Rosenblatt and his
Russian-born mother were registered
members of the American Labor
Party." Another FBI memo spoke of
his connection to the left-wing
Coordinating Committee for
Democratic Action, which the FBI
derided as "a Semitic committee" that
was trying to "smear" Nazi sympathiz-
ers.
After the establishment of Israel in
1948, Mr. Rosenblatt worked . with
Eleanor Roosevelt and others to create
the National Committee for an
Effective Congress, a liberal political
action committee. In 1953, at the
height of McCarthy's anti-communist
campaign, he established what he
called the Anti-McCarthy Clearing
House, which played a key role in
exposing false statements by the
Wisconsin senator and mobilized
members of Congress to oppose him.
After McCarthy's downfall, Mr.
Rosenblatt continued his work on
Capitol Hill with his own lobbying
firm, National Counsel Associates. His
clients included prominent unions
such as the United Mine Workers, as
well as environmental groups.
Mr. Rosenblatt recently gave what
turned out to be his final interview
about his Bergson Group years in a
meeting which included this reporter.
"We didn't consider ourselves
heroes," he said. "We were just trying
-
to do the right thing." 0
Rafael Medoff is director of the David S.
Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.
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