| | Back in the [[United States]], Burns operated a safe house for Soviet intelligence. Burns worked with [[Bernard Schuster]]. A KGB message was sent from New York to Moscow on 16 August 1944 discussing Burns covert relationship with Soviet intelligence. Three days later General [[Pavel Fitin]], head of the KGB directed a memo to [[Georgi Dimitrov]], head of the Comintern, asking for information on Paul Burns, a social worker and fellow Lincoln Battalion veteran, [[Louis Horvitz]], operated another safe house. [[Leonid Kvasnikov]], a KGB Case Officer, used one of these safe houses of members of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] (CPUSA) for a meeting with a source near the end of 1944, although it is not clear which. | | Back in the [[United States]], Burns operated a safe house for Soviet intelligence. Burns worked with [[Bernard Schuster]]. A KGB message was sent from New York to Moscow on 16 August 1944 discussing Burns covert relationship with Soviet intelligence. Three days later General [[Pavel Fitin]], head of the KGB directed a memo to [[Georgi Dimitrov]], head of the Comintern, asking for information on Paul Burns, a social worker and fellow Lincoln Battalion veteran, [[Louis Horvitz]], operated another safe house. [[Leonid Kvasnikov]], a KGB Case Officer, used one of these safe houses of members of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] (CPUSA) for a meeting with a source near the end of 1944, although it is not clear which. |
| | *1166 KGB New York to Moscow, 16 August 1944. | | *1166 KGB New York to Moscow, 16 August 1944. |
| | *''Report on Americans,'' 27 September 1937, Archive of the International Brigades, RTsKhIDNI 545-3-453. | | *''Report on Americans,'' 27 September 1937, Archive of the International Brigades, RTsKhIDNI 545-3-453. |
| | *Fitin to Dimitrov, 19 August 1944, Archive of the Dimitrov Secretariat of the Comintern, RTsKhIDNI 495-74-485. | | *Fitin to Dimitrov, 19 August 1944, Archive of the Dimitrov Secretariat of the Comintern, RTsKhIDNI 495-74-485. |