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E. Howard Hunt was known as a middling CIA Officer before working for Nixon in retirement. When, in the fallout of Watergate, was he first connected to the JFK Assassination in the popular mind?	5
What kind of circumstances would motivate a 17th Century Spaniard to emigrate to New Spain? Would they be wealthy, or seeking wealth? Did most of them expect the move to he permanent?	4
Pre-Vietnam American Labor Organizing was notoriously anti-communist, seeing leninist entryism as almost invariably a ploy of soviet statecraft - how did these organizations respond to more traditional critiques of capitalism, whether academic readings of Marx or heterodox forms of radical analysis?	2
In popular lore, Joseph Welch asking "Have you no decency?" to McCarthy marked the downturn of the Red Scare, but this was in response to McCarthy claiming that Welch's legal partner was a member of the National Lawyers Guild. Was the NLG actually a communist front organization in its early years?	2
What led post-war Anglo-American anarchist movements to adopt the name, symbol, and brand of a stalinist weimar paramilitary outfit explicitly opposed to "united front" tactics, Antifaschistische Aktion?	2
Contemporary Europeans often attempted to explain the French Revolution as the consequence of conspiring secret societies, like the Illuminati and Masons. Secret societies had a long history in, e.g. Chinese politics (even founding dynasties) but what local antecedents were Europeans thinking of?	2
How did the Christian samurai and nobility of pre-Tokugawa Japan conceptualize the Emperor, Imperial legitimacy, and their place in the the Shinto political theology of their country?	1
The name, symbol and brand of the American Antifa movement were taken from the Weimar-era KPD's paramilitary, Antifaschistische Aktion. How did that group, an exclusively Stalinist outfit which mostly fought Social Democrats, come to have its identity claimed by US anarchist/united front movements?	1
Jim Jones and his followers, as committed communists, conceived of the "revolutionary suicide" at Jonestown as an act of Marxist-Leninist resistance to American imperialism. Did any communist governments in the 70's actually honor his "sacrifice" or condemn the US for driving leftists to such ends?	0

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