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'''Paul Burns''' was an American citizen who served as a non-state sponsored "volunteer" in the [[Abraham Lincoln Brigade]]s during the [[Spanish Civil War]], and later for [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]] in the [[United States]]. While serving in Spain, [[Comintern]] officials identified Burns as "a reliable and honest member of the [[Communist party|party]]" who was "suitable for [[espionage|organizational work]]." Later became an employee of Soviet news agency [[TASS]].
Back in the [[United States]], Burns operated a safe house for Soviet intelligence. Burns worked with [[Bernhard 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.
===Venona===
Paul Burns is referenced in the following [[Venona project]] decrypt:
*1166 KGB New York to Moscow, 16 August 1944.
===References===
*''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.
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 224.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Burns, Paul}}
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]
Back in the [[United States]], Burns operated a safe house for Soviet intelligence. Burns worked with [[Bernhard 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.
===Venona===
Paul Burns is referenced in the following [[Venona project]] decrypt:
*1166 KGB New York to Moscow, 16 August 1944.
===References===
*''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.
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 224.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Burns, Paul}}
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]