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Soviet intelligence agencies were able to use over 400 American [[citizen]]s during the 1930s and up to 1946.  The CPUSA was not just a recruiting ground for Soviet intelligence, it functioned within Soviet espionage as an auxiliary organization.  Earl Browder, with the active assistance of a dozen high-level CPUSA officials, and numerous rank-and-file members, supervised CPUSA cooperation with the OGPU and GRU.  Browder was given personal credit for recruitment of eighteen agents in a 1946 OGPU memo.

Soviet intelligence agencies were able to use over 400 American [[citizen]]s during the 1930s and up to 1946.  The CPUSA was not just a recruiting ground for Soviet intelligence, it functioned within Soviet espionage as an auxiliary organization.  Earl Browder, with the active assistance of a dozen high-level CPUSA officials, and numerous rank-and-file members, supervised CPUSA cooperation with the OGPU and GRU.  Browder was given personal credit for recruitment of eighteen agents in a 1946 OGPU memo.

In the 1930s, the chief Soviet espionage organization operating in the U.S. became the [[GRU]].  [[J. Peters]], headed the secret apparatus that supplied internal government documents from the [[Harold Ware|Ware group]] to the GRU.  Browder assisted Peters in building a network of operatives in the [[Roosevelt administration]].  This group included [[Alger Hiss]], [[John Abt]], and [[Lee Pressman]].  Courier for the group at the time was [[Whittaker Chambers]].  Browder oversaw the efforts of [[Jacob Golos]] and his girlfriend, [[Elizabeth Bentley]], whose network of agents and sources included two key figures at the Department of Treasury, [[Greg Silvermaster|Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]] and [[Harry Dexter White]].

In the 1930s, the chief Soviet espionage organization operating in the U.S. became the [[GRU]].  [[J. Peters]], headed the secret apparatus that supplied internal government documents from the [[Harold Ware|Ware group]] to the GRU.  Browder assisted Peters in building a network of operatives in the [[New Deal|Roosevelt administration]].  This group included [[Alger Hiss]], [[John Abt]], and [[Lee Pressman]].  Courier for the group at the time was [[Whittaker Chambers]].  Browder oversaw the efforts of [[Jacob Golos]] and his girlfriend, [[Elizabeth Bentley]], whose network of agents and sources included two key figures at the Department of Treasury, [[Greg Silvermaster|Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]] and [[Harry Dexter White]].

By the end of 1936 at least four mid-level [[State Department]] officials were delivering information to Soviet intelligence: Alger Hiss, assistant to Assistant Secretary of State Francis Sayre; [[Julian Wadleigh]], economist in the Trade Agreements Section; [[Laurence Duggan]], Latin American division; and [[Noel Field]], West European division.  Chambers told how a tank design by C.W. Christie was procured, and was put into production in the Soviet Union as the Mark BT.  

By the end of 1936 at least four mid-level [[State Department]] officials were delivering information to Soviet intelligence: Alger Hiss, assistant to Assistant Secretary of State Francis Sayre; [[Julian Wadleigh]], economist in the Trade Agreements Section; [[Laurence Duggan]], Latin American division; and [[Noel Field]], West European division.  Chambers told how a tank design by C.W. Christie was procured, and was put into production in the Soviet Union as the Mark BT.