Editing Paul Robeson (section)

====Moscow breakdown====
During an uncharacteristically wild party in his Moscow hotel room, Robeson locked himself in his bedroom and attempted suicide by cutting his wrists.{{sfn|Duberman|1989|pp=498–499}} Three days later, under Soviet medical care, he told his son, who had received news about his condition and traveled to Moscow, that he felt extreme paranoia, he thought that the walls of the room were moving and, overcome by a powerful sense of emptiness and depression, he tried to take his own life.{{sfn|Nollen|2010|p=180}}

Paul Jr. has stated that his father's health problems stemmed from the CIA's and MI5's attempts to "neutralize" his father.<ref name="Democracy Now">{{cite AV media |medium=radio broadcast |people=(presenter) Amy Goodman |date=July 1, 1999 |title=Did the U.S. Government drug Paul Robeson? Part&nbsp;1 |work=[[Democracy Now]] |url=http://www.democracynow.org/1999/7/1/did_the_cia_drug_paul_robeson |postscript=; |access-date=December 15, 2010 |archive-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213142424/https://www.democracynow.org/1999/7/1/did_the_cia_drug_paul_robeson |url-status=live }} [http://www.democracynow.org/1999/7/6/did_the_u_s_government_drug part 2, July 6, 1999] {{Webarchive|date=December 17, 2010|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217164721/http://www.democracynow.org/1999/7/6/did_the_u_s_government_drug}}</ref>{{sfn|Duberman|1989|pp=563–564}} He remembered that his father had had such fears before his prostate operation.{{sfn|Duberman|1989|pp=438–442}} He said that three doctors treating Robeson in London and New York had been CIA contractors,<ref name="Democracy Now"/> and that his father's symptoms resulted from being "subjected to mind de-patterning under [[MK-ULTRA]]", a secret CIA programme.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Time Out: The Paul Robeson files |magazine=The Nation |date=December 20, 1999 |first=Paul Jr. |last=Robeson |volume=269 |issue=21 |page=9}}</ref> [[Martin Duberman]] wrote that Robeson's health breakdown was probably brought on by a combination of factors including extreme emotional and physical stress, [[Bipolar disorder|bipolar depression]], exhaustion and the beginning of circulatory and heart problems. "[E]ven without an organic predisposition and accumulated pressures of government harassment he might have been susceptible to a breakdown."{{sfn|Duberman|1989|pp=498–499}}