'''Maurice Kowan''', MD, was a Chicago doctor and [[Communist]], who acted as a mail drop for [[William Crane]] and [[John Loomis Sherman]] while engaged in espionage activity on behalf of the Soviet Union.
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'''Maurice Kowan''', MD, (born 1899) was a Chicago doctor and [[Communist]], who acted as a mail drop for [[William Crane]] and [[John Loomis Sherman]] while engaged in espionage activity on behalf of the Soviet Union. Dr. Kowan was also one of the first doctors to use Laetrile in the control of cancer - he was fined $3,000.00 and, at the age of 70, sentenced to two months in prison.
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==Reference==
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==References==
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*William Crane memorandum, 14 February 1949, William Crane FBI File 74-1333, serial 213.
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*William Crane memorandum, 14 February 1949, William Crane FBI File 74–1333, serial 213.
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', Yale University Press (1999).
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', Yale University Press (1999).