Who is Valerie Jarrett? - Part I of IV

Submitted by:  Veronica Coffin

Why is she running our country?

Valerie Jarrett was born as Valerie Bowman on November 14, 1956, to American parents in Shiraz, Iran. Following is some vital information about several key, extremely radical influences in Jarrett’s life.

Jarrett’s Father

Valerie Jarrett’s father—an American-born physician named James Bowman (1923-2011)—worked as a pathologist and geneticist at a children’s hospital in Shiraz as part of a U.S. aid program to assist developing countries. He resided in Chicago from approximately 1947-53, precisely when Frank Marshall Davis, the Communist journalist who would later serve as a mentor to a young Barack Obama, launched his Communist Party-line newspaper, theChicago Star. Bowman and Davis undoubtedly knew one another during these years. Bowman subsequently moved to Iran, where Valerie Jarrett was born, after his discharge from the Army Medical Corps in 1955.  

As evidenced by his lengthy FBI file, Bowman was a Communist who often collaborated with other Chicago-based members of the Party. In 1950, for instance, he communicated with a paid Soviet agent named Alfred Stern, who: (a) later fled the U.S. to Prague after being charged with espionage in 1957, and (b) relocated to Cuba where he served as an adviser to Fidel Castro.  

The federal government placed Bowman under special surveillance because of his involvement with the European Recovery Program (ERP)—i.e., the Marshall Plan. Historian Paul Kengor explains: “This ERP/Marshall Plan association is very intriguing, and troubling. One of the most insidious forms of Communist Party agitation in the 1940s and 1950s was to frame the Marshall Plan as a form of vile American imperialism. It was the Kremlin line, pushed by Stalin and Molotov and mimicked by [the] Communist Party USA. One of the worst peddlers of this line was Frank Marshall Davis, who characterized the Marshall Plan in his columns as a ‘device’ to maintain ‘white imperialism.’ The plan, by Davis’s rendering, was a disgusting ‘oppression of non-white peoples everywhere,’ a slavery purchased by Secretary of State Marshall’s ‘billions of U.S. dollars … to bolster the tottering empires of England, France, Belgium, Holland and the other western exploiters of teeming millions of humans.’ … Was James Bowman [promoting the same notions about the Marshall Plan]? I cannot tell from … his FBI file, but I can say that Bowman’s work for, or position on, the Marshall Plan was the item of special concern to the FBI.” 

Bowman was also a member of the Association of Internes and Medical Students, a group that, according to Bowman’s FBI file, engaged in un-American activities and “has long been a faithful follower of the Communist Party line.” This information is further buttressed by documents on Bowman from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which show that the FBI investigated him for his membership in a group that “follows the communist party line.”  

Bowman was also very active with the communist student group American Youth for Democracy as well as the International Labor Defense and the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (ACPFB), three of Frank Marshall Davis’s favorite organizations. Paul Kengor writes the following about ACPFB:

“This group had been so extreme that the Democratic Congress’s huge ‘Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States’ (published in 1944) devoted a lengthy 15-page section just to ACPFB, atop innumerable added references elsewhere in the report. Key members included prominent African-American communists Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson, the gushing admirer of Joe Stalin, plus the usual assemblage of duped liberals/progressives, ranging from theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, to the great Orson Welles, to famed movie actor Edward G. Robinson. 

“As the Congressional report noted, ACPFB ‘was founded by the Communist Party in order to exploit racial divisions in the United States for its own revolutionary purposes.’ Its modus operandi was to polarize Americans along racial lines in order to advance the Soviet agenda. Closely linked to International Labor Defense, the primary (concealed) intention of ACPFB was to protect foreign communists who came to America and agitated for the Soviet Comintern. The core objective was to prevent deportation of these foreign-born communists living in America. One such figure was German communist Gerhart Eisler, who became a major CPUSA cause, and whose name was omnipresent throughout Frank Marshall Davis’s Chicago Star. 

“Few communist fronts so directly served Soviet interests. Quite deservedly, ACPFB was designated as a subversive group by the office of President Truman’s attorney general, Tom Clark. 

“It is no surprise that ACPFB remained the one group that Frank Marshall Davis embraced through his final stages of life. They were two peas in a pod. No other front so perfectly identified with Davis’s interests and public work, especially his shameless race-based political agitation on behalf of Moscow….”

Bowman was also involved with the Abraham Lincoln School in Chicago, where Frank Marshall Davis taught at the time.

See Additional Parts to this Story by Ms. Coffin in subsequent postings.