Herbert Romerstein
| Herbert Romerstein | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 19, 1931 Brooklyn, New York |
| Died | May 7, 2013 (aged 81) Clinton, Maryland |
| Occupation | Government employee, historian, author |
| Movement | Anti-communism |
| Spouse(s) | Pat (4 children) |
Herbert "Herb" Romerstein (August 19, 1931 – May 7, 2013) was an American government employee, historian, and writer who specialized in Anti-communism and is best known for his book The Venona Secrets, written with Eric Breindel.
Romerstein was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1931 to a Jewish family.
As a young man, he joined the Communist Youth League and then joined the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).
During the Korean War, he left the Party and fought in that war.
In 1951, he testified before the Senate Sub-Committee on Internal Security on communist youth organizations and before the Subversive Activities Control Board. He became a research analyst and investigator for American Business Consultants, publishers of the anti-Communist newsletter Counterattack as well as for Bookmailer, which published his first book, Communism and Your Child in 1962.
From 1965 to 1983, Romerstein served as a staff member for the U.S. House of Representatives. During this interval Romerstein worked as investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), as minority chief investigator for the House Committee on Internal Security, and on the staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
By the 1980s, he had joined the Reagan Administration full-time as a director of the Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation at the U.S. Information Agency.
Thereafter, he became director of the Center for Security Research at the Education and Research Institute (ERI). ERI's board members include Ralph Bennett, M. Stanton Evans, Patrick Korten, James C. Roberts, Allan H. Ryskind, and Terrence M. Scanlon.
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