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'''Steve Nelson''' was a National Committeeman of the [[Communist Party USA]].  In April 1943 the [[FBI]] monitored a meeting in Nelson home.<ref>[http://www.milnet.com/cia/Venona/preface.htm VENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957], Robert Louis Benson, and Michael Warner, eds.</ref>  An FBI report stated,

'''Steve Nelson''' was a National Committeeman of the [[Communist Party USA]].  In April 1943 the [[FBI]] monitored a meeting in Nelson's home.<ref>[http://www.milnet.com/cia/Venona/preface.htm VENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957], Robert Louis Benson, and Michael Warner, eds.</ref>  An FBI report stated,

:"Through a highly confidential and reliable source it has been determined that on April 10, 1943, a Russian who is an agent of the Communist International paid a sum of money to Steve Nelson, National Committeeman of the [[Communist Party USA]], at the latter's home in Oakland, California. The money was reportedly paid to Nelson for the purpose of placing Communist Party members and [[Comintern]] agents in industries engaged in secret war production for the United States Government so that information could be obtained for transmittal to the Soviet Union."

:"Through a highly confidential and reliable source it has been determined that on April 10, 1943, a Russian who is an agent of the Communist International paid a sum of money to Steve Nelson, National Committeeman of the [[Communist Party USA]], at the latter's home in Oakland, California. The money was reportedly paid to Nelson for the purpose of placing Communist Party members and [[Comintern]] agents in industries engaged in secret war production for the United States Government so that information could be obtained for transmittal to the Soviet Union."