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Line 12: − + − − Taylor was able to secure employment within the [[United States]] [[Department of the Treasury]] through Secretary [[Harry Dexter White]] in 1941. The Treasury Department sent him to [[China]] and later Lisbon, [[Portugal]] for the [[Foreign Economic Administration]]. Taylor also was a member of the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA), in violation of federal employment statutes barring membership in an organization seeking the violent overthrow of the United States Government. As a CPUSA member and of the secret apparatus known as the [[Silvermaster group]] <ref>[http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/silversm.htm Silvermaster Group FBI FOIA]</ref>, Taylor supplied information orally and in document form to [[Soviet]] intelligence. − − In June 1945 Taylor worked out of the U.S. Embassy in London and later that year Paris. − − Associates claim Taylor spoke about [[Communism]] constantly. He is one of two Soviet agents who used the code name name "Acorn" as deciphered by the [[Venona project]]. Code names sometimes were changed by a user and another assigned.
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'''Willaim Henry Taylor''' was born in [[British]] Columbia on 30 March 1906 and studied at the University of British Columbia, and attended school with [[Greg Silvermaster|Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]] at the University of California where he received a Ph.D. from the in 1933, taught [[economic]]s at the University of Hawaii for 8 years and became naturalized citizen in 1940. In 1934 while living in Hawaii Taylor visited the [[Soviet Union]] and spent several months there.
'''Willaim Henry Taylor''' (1906-)
[[Elizabeth Bentley]] told the [[FBI]] in 1945 that several Treasury Department officials, [[Harry Dexter White]], [[V. Frank Coe]], and William H. Taylor passed along information to the Soviet intelligence from a cell headed by [[Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]] and [[William Ullman]]. To handle the volume of material passing through the group, Ullman, who lived in Silvermaster's house, had set up a darkroom in the basement to photograph the documents rather than copy them by hand.
[[Elizabeth Bentley]] told the [[FBI]] in 1945 that several Treasury Department officials, [[Harry Dexter White]], [[V. Frank Coe]], and William H. Taylor passed along information to the Soviet intelligence from a cell headed by [[Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]] and [[William Ullman]]. To handle the volume of material passing through the group, Ullman, who lived in Silvermaster's house, had set up a darkroom in the basement to photograph the documents rather than copy them by hand.
On 19 October 1953 Taylor testified in a private session of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations chaired by [[Sen. Joseph McCarthy]] regarding stolen occupation currency plates at the end of WWII. <ref>McCarthy Hearings, Testimony of William Henry Taylor, Executive Session, [http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/mccarthy/hearingsvol4.pdf Vol. 4]: 3403 - 3418 (681 - 696 PDF), 19 October 1953.</ref>
On 19 October 1953 Taylor testified in a private session of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations chaired by [[Sen. Joseph McCarthy]] regarding stolen occupation currency plates at the end of WWII. <ref>McCarthy Hearings, Testimony of William Henry Taylor, Executive Session, [http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/mccarthy/hearingsvol4.pdf Vol. 4]: 3403 - 3418 (681 - 696 PDF), 19 October 1953.</ref>