Special attention must be paid to the conditions of illegality that historical parties have experienced. This is a condition the communists in the US today are not familiar with, and currently have no structure to guard against the possibility of a legal crackdown or full-fledged bans by the state on communist work. To not prepare for this possibility - indeed, inevitability - is to make a fatal error far in advance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Malinovsky
a prominent Bolshevik politician before the Russian Revolution, while at the same time working as the best-paid agent for the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police. They codenamed him 'Portnoi' (the tailor)
On 28 December 1912, he attended a Central Committee meeting in Vienna. He persuaded Lenin to appoint an Okhrana agent, Miron Chernomazov, as editor of Pravda as opposed to Stalin's candidate Stepan Shahumyan
When Menshevik leader Julius Martov first denounced Malinovsky as a spy in January 1913, Lenin refused to believe him and stood by Malinovsky.
He joined Lenin in Kraków, where a Bolshevik commission looked into rumours that he was a police spy. Despite testimony from Nikolai Bukharin and Elena Troyanovskaya, who both suspected that they had been betrayed to the police by Malinovsky when they were arrested in Moscow, respectively in 1910 and 1912, the commission accepted Malinovsky's story that he had been forced to resign when the police had blackmailed him by threatening to publicise the old charge of attempted rape
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