Philbrick, Herbert A. (Herbert Arthur), 1915-1993

Anticommunist activist and counterspy.

From the description of Herbert A. Philbrick papers, 1849-1997 (bulk 1940-1993). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984223

Biographical Note

• 1915, May 11: Born, Boston, Mass.
• 1938: Graduated, Lincoln Technical Institute of Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.
• 1939: Married Eva Gertrude Luscombe (divorced 1967) Sales representative, Holmes Direct Mail Service, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1940: Organizer and chairman, Cambridge Youth Council, Cambridge, Mass. Reported suspicions of communist control of Cambridge Youth Council to Boston, Mass., office, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 1941: Began reporting to Federal Bureau of Investigation on actions of Communist party
• 1942: Joined Young Communist League
• 1942 - 1949 : Assistant advertising director, Paramount Theaters Division of New England, M & P Theatres Co., Boston, Mass.
• 1944: Joined Communist party
• 1949: Testified in federal court as surprise witness against eleven Communist party leaders indicted for violation of the Smith Act
• 1951: Testified before hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities regarding Communist party activities in the Boston, Mass., area “I Led 3 Lives” serialized in the New York Herald Tribune
• 1951 - 1957 : Lectured on anticommunist topics
• 1952: Published I Led 3 Lives: Citizen, “Communist,” Counterspy (New York: McGraw-Hill. 323 pp.)
• 1952 - 1958 : Wrote syndicated column “Red Underground ” for the New York Herald Tribune
• 1953 - 1956 : Technical advisor for television program “I Led 3 Lives”
• 1961 - 1962 : Prepared series of five-minute television programs, “The Red Report”
• 1963 - 1969 : Wrote newsletters, Dollar Hollar, Herb Philbrick's News Bulletin, Peoples Voice, and Schick Razor's Edge
• 1964: Candidate for delegate-at-large from New Hampshire to the Republican national convention for presidential candidate Barry M. Goldwater
• 1967 - 1969 : National Director, United States Anti-Communist Congress
• 1968: Married Shirley J. Brown
• 1969 - 1977 : Editor and publisher, Washington Exclusive, U.S. Press Association
• 1972: Published revised edition, I Led 3 Lives: Citizen, “Communist,” Counterspy (Washington, D.C.: Capitol Hill Press. 306 pp.)
• 1976 - 1977 : Writer-editor, Division of Organization and Personnel, United States Nuclear Regulatory Agency, Washington, D. C.
• 1977 - 1979 : Store manager, Fletcher's Paint Works, Hampton, N. H.
• 1982 - circa 1989 : Court reporter and free-lance writer for Rockingham County, N. H., newspapers
• 1990 - 1993 : President, Constructive Action
• 1993, Aug. 16: Died, North Hampton, N. H.

From the guide to the Herbert A. Philbrick Papers, 1849-1997, (bulk 1940-1993), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)