Infiltration

Educative, too, but not edifying, is his account of his infiltration of a London Labour Party branch, selecting the keenest and most intelligent members, leading them into the party; and then, having got every likely man or woman at executive level a member, revealing to them at a private meeting that all were communists. None had suspected the others. "Then," says Hyde, "we got down to business." So much so that in 1945, when they realised that most of their election candidates had forfeited their deposits, they found they had at least eight or nine "crypto-communists" in Parliament as Labour members.