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| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | '''This article is part of the'''<br>'''[[Venona project|Venona]]'''<br>'''series.'''
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| style="text-align: center;"|[[Greg Silvermaster#Silvermaster group|Silvermaster group]]
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'''Helen Witte Silvermaster''' nee '''Vera Lavrow''' was born 19 July 1899 in [[Russia]]. Her father, Baron Peter Wittee, was a counselor to the Czar and acted as advisor to the [[mongolia|Mongolian]] government. After the [[October Revolution]] he was released and later became the head of the Rice Institute in the Southern [[Ukraine]]. He was known in Russia as the “Red Baron” for his support of the [[Bolsheviks]]. After the Revolution she traveled to [[China]] and married a Russian becoming '''Vera Ivanova Witte''' about 1923. They emigrated to [[San Francisco]] in 1924 where her son, [[Anatole Volkov|Anatole Boris Volkov]] was born in 1924. Shortly after Anatole's birth the couple separated and Helen began living with [[Greg Silvermaster|Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]]. They were married in 1930.
The couple came to Washington D.C. in 1939. In Washington Helen was one of the leaders of the Washington Bookshop, the [[American League for Peace and Democracy]], the Washington Committee for Aid to China, and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties. All these organizations were [[Comintern]] and [[CPUSA]] sponsored organizations.
Helen's code name with Soviet intelligence and in the [[Venona project]] is "Dora".
==Source==
*[http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/silversm.htm Silvermaster Group FBI FOIA]
*Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era'' (New York: Random House, 1999).
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| style="text-align: center;"|[[CPUSA#Secret_apparatus|Secret apparatus]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|[[American League for Peace and Democracy]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|[[Greg Silvermaster#Silvermaster group|Silvermaster group]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|<small>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:Ushistory&action=edit Edit this box]</small>
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'''Helen Witte Silvermaster''' nee '''Vera Lavrow''' was born 19 July 1899 in [[Russia]]. Her father, Baron Peter Wittee, was a counselor to the Czar and acted as advisor to the [[mongolia|Mongolian]] government. After the [[October Revolution]] he was released and later became the head of the Rice Institute in the Southern [[Ukraine]]. He was known in Russia as the “Red Baron” for his support of the [[Bolsheviks]]. After the Revolution she traveled to [[China]] and married a Russian becoming '''Vera Ivanova Witte''' about 1923. They emigrated to [[San Francisco]] in 1924 where her son, [[Anatole Volkov|Anatole Boris Volkov]] was born in 1924. Shortly after Anatole's birth the couple separated and Helen began living with [[Greg Silvermaster|Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]]. They were married in 1930.
The couple came to Washington D.C. in 1939. In Washington Helen was one of the leaders of the Washington Bookshop, the [[American League for Peace and Democracy]], the Washington Committee for Aid to China, and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties. All these organizations were [[Comintern]] and [[CPUSA]] sponsored organizations.
Helen's code name with Soviet intelligence and in the [[Venona project]] is "Dora".
==Source==
*[http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/silversm.htm Silvermaster Group FBI FOIA]
*Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era'' (New York: Random House, 1999).
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[[Category:Biographies]]
[[Category:History]]
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]