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'''Julius J. Joseph''' was an American citizen and Soviet spy. During World War II he worked in the [[Office of Emergency Management]] (1942) and the Labor War Manpower Commission (1943) and from 1943 to 1945 for the Far Easter section (Japanese intelligence) of the U.S. [[Office of Strategic Services]] where his wife and Soviet spy, [[Bella Joseph]], also worked.

Venona decrypt 880 of 8 June 1943 from New York [[KGB]] ''Rezident'' [[Vasily Zubilin]] to KGB foreign intelligence head General [[Pavel Fitin]] in Moscow is about the OSS and the [[Office of War Information]] (OWI). It discusses the activities of five agents, or "probationers" as they are refered to, [[Maurice Halperin]], [[Duncan Chapin Lee]], [[Bella Joseph]], [[Franz Leopold Neumann|Franz Neumann]], and Julius Joseph.

In 1945 Joseph had become Deputy Chief of the Far Eastern Division. He is referred to as a Soviet source in the OSS in the [[Venona]] traffic under the cryptonym "Cautious".

== Sources ==
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999). ISBN 0300077718
* Elizabeth Bentley, ''Out of Bondage: The Story of Elizabeth Bentley'', Devin-Adair Company, 1951.
* Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America&mdash;the Stalin Era'', New York: Random House, 1999.

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