Joseph Robert Starobin (December 19, 1913 - November 6, 1976) was an American journalist and Communist Party member.
[4] Eventually, Starobin rose to become the foreign editor of the Daily Worker, before being replaced by Joseph Clark.
[5] In 1953, Starobin spent 30 days in China, as the first American journalist to travel past the so-called "bamboo curtain".
[12] Earlier in the 1950s, Foster had tried to expel Starobin and Gates from the Party because they disagreed with his assessment that a war between capitalist and Communist countries was inevitable.
He advocated for a negotiated peace settlement to the Vietnam War, sending a memorandum to J. William Fulbright about his discussions with North Vietnamese contacts.