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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'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,
'''Steve Nelson''' was a National Committeeman of the [[Communist Party USA]].
A native of [[Yugoslavia]], Steve Nelson entered the [[United States]] on June 12, 1920 under a false name. He joined the [[Communist Party]] in the early 1920's and in 1928 was granted United States citizenship.
Nelson received special training in the [[Lenin School]] in [[Moscow]] in 1931, and in 1933 acted as an operative for the [[Communist International]] in [[Shanghai]], China. In 1936 and 1937, he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Communist-recruited [[International Brigades]] in Spain. Although active as a Communist Party organizer in California and Pennsylvania and as a member of the Communist Party National Committee, his most important assignment was [[atomic espionage]].
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."
The information was sensitive because it revealed that the FBI had a microphone in Communist leader Steve Nelson's home and could record all of his conversations.
The information was sensitive because it revealed that the FBI had a microphone in Communist leader Steve Nelson's home and could record all of his conversations.
Nelson had at times been in contact with [[Rudy Baker]] who in the early 1940's was a high official in the [[CPUSA#Secret_apparatus|Communist International apparatus]] operating in the United States.
==See also==
==See also==