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[[CPUSA#Secret_apparatus|Secret apparatus]]<br/>

[[CPUSA#Secret apparatus|Secret apparatus]]<br/>

[[International Brigades]]<br/>

[[International Brigades]]<br/>

[[Board of Economic Warfare]]<br/>

[[Board of Economic Warfare]]<br/>

When Fahy returned to the U.S. after being wounded in the war in 1938, he publicly argued with Socialist Party leader [[Norman Thomas]] on policy differences over the Spanish Civil War, and resigned from the Party in an open letter published in the Communist ''[[Daily Worker]]''.  Afterward Fahy became Vice President of the ''Hemisphere News Service'' under [[Robert Miller]], and they later hired [[Joseph Gregg]] to manage it.  Gregg and Fahy had served together in Spain.  The news service was absorbed into the Office of the [[Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]] (CIAA) in 1941, an agency that coordinated diplomacy, propaganda and economic warfare in Latin America.

When Fahy returned to the U.S. after being wounded in the war in 1938, he publicly argued with Socialist Party leader [[Norman Thomas]] on policy differences over the Spanish Civil War, and resigned from the Party in an open letter published in the Communist ''[[Daily Worker]]''.  Afterward Fahy became Vice President of the ''Hemisphere News Service'' under [[Robert Miller]], and they later hired [[Joseph Gregg]] to manage it.  Gregg and Fahy had served together in Spain.  The news service was absorbed into the Office of the [[Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]] (CIAA) in 1941, an agency that coordinated diplomacy, propaganda and economic warfare in Latin America.

Fahy left the CIAA and joined the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] and held the position of Principal Intelligence Officer.  In 1943 Fahy was about to become chairman of the Territorial Affairs Bureau in the Department of the Interior, Rep. [[HUAC#Dies_Committee_.281938-1944.29|Martin Dies, Jr.]] placed Fahy on a list of government employees suspected as being Communists.  The Kerr Commission upon hearing Fahy's testimony agreed his involvement with the Socialist party was a "youthful misadventure" and concluded Fahy had been "loyal" and "has not been guilty of any [[subversion (political)|subversive]] activity".   

Fahy left the CIAA and joined the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] and held the position of Principal Intelligence Officer.  In 1943 Fahy was about to become chairman of the Territorial Affairs Bureau in the Department of the Interior, Rep. [[HUAC#Dies Committee .281938-1944.29|Martin Dies, Jr.]] placed Fahy on a list of government employees suspected as being Communists.  The Kerr Commission upon hearing Fahy's testimony agreed his involvement with the Socialist party was a "youthful misadventure" and concluded Fahy had been "loyal" and "has not been guilty of any [[subversion (political)|subversive]] activity".   

Fahy's [[code name]] with the Soviet Naval GRU, "MAXWELL," was deciphered in the [[VENONA project]]. VENONA transcripts show Fahy was transmitting information to the Soviet Naval GRU for money.  The information Fahy transmitted was regarded in Moscow as very valuable. Moscow sent a message to the Washington Naval GRU to "communicate each item of information from [Fahy} on political questions to the Master [Soviet ambassador] and telegraph it to me with the post-script 'report to the Master'.

Fahy's [[code name]] with the Soviet Naval GRU, "MAXWELL," was deciphered in the [[VENONA project]]. VENONA transcripts show Fahy was transmitting information to the Soviet Naval GRU for money.  The information Fahy transmitted was regarded in Moscow as very valuable. Moscow sent a message to the Washington Naval GRU to "communicate each item of information from [Fahy] on political questions to the Master [Soviet ambassador] and telegraph it to me with the post-script 'report to the Master'.

==Source==

==Sources==

* John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)

* John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)

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[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]

[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]