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'''Leon Josephson''' was an American attorney and longtime Communist who allegedly aided the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) in their false-passport operation on behalf of [[NKVD|Soviet intellignece]] in the 1930s. Josephson represented the [[Café Society]] as a business attorney.
===References===
*Elizabeth Bentley deposition 30 November 1945, FBI file 65-14603.
* John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 375, 469.
*FBI file HQ-1000048754; HQ-0610008648
===External links===
*[http://www.watergate.info/nixon/maiden-house-speech-1947.shtml Congressman Nixon's Maiden Speech to the House of Representatives] 18 February 1947
*[http://newsocialist.org/newsite/index.php?id=77 ''Swinging to the Left: Jazz and the working class''] ''New Socialist''
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