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"Bruce Minton" was the cover name of Richard Bransten, another secret member of the Communist Party&mdash;a fact Seldes claimed was unknown to him at the time. Bransten was also a [[USSR|Soviet]] agent code-named "Informator."<ref>{{cite book |title=Spies: the rise and fall of the KGB in America |last=Haynes |first=John Earl |coauthors=Harvey Klehr, Alexander Vassiliev |year=2009 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0300123906 |page=172 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC |accessdate=9 January 2011}} Cf. {{cite book |title=White Notebook No. 3 (Translated) |last=Vassiliev |first=Alexander |year=1994 |publisher=Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |location=Washington, DC |page=1 |url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/White_Notebook_No.3_Translated.pdf |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref> He was married to wealthy<ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=M8p00bTFvRkC Venona: decoding Soviet espionage in America] (Yale University Press, 1999) ISBN 0300077718, p. 232</ref> [[San Francisco]] socialite [[Louise Bransten]], who was yet another secret member of the Communist Party.<ref>John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America]'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), ISBN 0300123906, p. 88</ref> She was also not only another Soviet agent<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors]'' (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2001), ISBN 0895262258, p. 263</ref> (code-named ''Lyre''),<ref>Gregg Herken, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=7s0NGIfflOgC Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller]'' (Macmillan, 2003) ISBN 080506589X, p. 129 (cf. [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/18mar_pash.pdf 132 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 18 March 1944; [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/7jun_corday.pdf 257 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 7 June 1944; [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/22jun_greeting_charlotte_corday.pdf 270 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 22 June 1944</ref> but the mistress<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors]'' (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2001), ISBN 0895262258, p. 257</ref> of [[NKVD]] San Francisco Station Chief [[Grigory Kheifets]].<ref>Daniel J Mulvenna, [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-diplo&month=0208&week=d&msg=2UO5GGvif1xPsNJ1mNou7A&user=&pw= Wales on Polenberg], H-DIPLO Discussion Log, H-Net (The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University), August 27, 2002</ref>

"Bruce Minton" was the cover name of Richard Bransten, another secret member of the Communist Party&mdash;a fact Seldes claimed was unknown to him at the time. Bransten was also a [[USSR|Soviet]] agent code-named "Informator."<ref>{{cite book |title=Spies: the rise and fall of the KGB in America |last=Haynes |first=John Earl |coauthors=Harvey Klehr, Alexander Vassiliev |year=2009 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0300123906 |page=172 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC |accessdate=9 January 2011}} Cf. {{cite book |title=White Notebook No. 3 (Translated) |last=Vassiliev |first=Alexander |year=1994 |publisher=Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |location=Washington, DC |page=1 |url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/White_Notebook_No.3_Translated.pdf |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref> He was married to wealthy<ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=M8p00bTFvRkC Venona: decoding Soviet espionage in America] (Yale University Press, 1999) ISBN 0300077718, p. 232</ref> [[San Francisco]] socialite [[Louise Bransten]], who was yet another secret member of the Communist Party.<ref>John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America]'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), ISBN 0300123906, p. 88</ref> She was also not only another Soviet agent<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors]'' (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2001), ISBN 0895262258, p. 263</ref> (code-named ''Lyre''),<ref>Gregg Herken, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=7s0NGIfflOgC Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller]'' (Macmillan, 2003) ISBN 080506589X, p. 129 (cf. [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/18mar_pash.pdf 132 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 18 March 1944; [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/7jun_corday.pdf 257 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 7 June 1944; [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/22jun_greeting_charlotte_corday.pdf 270 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 22 June 1944</ref> but the mistress<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors]'' (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2001), ISBN 0895262258, p. 257</ref> of [[NKVD]] San Francisco Station Chief [[Grigory Kheifets]].<ref>Daniel J Mulvenna, [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-diplo&month=0208&week=d&msg=2UO5GGvif1xPsNJ1mNou7A&user=&pw= Wales on Polenberg], H-DIPLO Discussion Log, H-Net (The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University), August 27, 2002</ref>

When [[Joseph McCarthy]] asked Seldes if he was a [[Communist]], Seldes vehemently denied [[CPUSA|Communist Party]] membership. According to [[Library of Congress]] [[Cold War]] historian<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/10012/haynes.html |title=Cold War Historian John Haynes Named Kluge Staff Fellow |author=Villamil, Patricia |work=Information Bulletin |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref> John Earl Haynes, [[Emory University]] professor of politics and history<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.polisci.emory.edu/facultypages/klehr.htm |title=Harvey Klehr, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History |work=Department of Political Science |publisher=Emory University |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref> Harvey Klehr, and former KGB agent<ref>"Alexander Vassiliev is ... a former KGB agent...."{{cite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=31935 |title=Alexander Vassiliev, author spotlight |publisher=Random House, Inc. |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref> Alexander Vassiliev, "Seldes lied."<ref>{{cite book |title=Spies: the rise and fall of the KGB in America |last=Haynes |first=John Earl |coauthors=Harvey Klehr, Alexander Vassiliev |year=2009 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0300123906 |page=169 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref>

When [[Joseph McCarthy]] asked Seldes if he were a [[Communist]], Seldes vehemently denied [[CPUSA|Communist Party]] membership. According to [[Library of Congress]] [[Cold War]] historian<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/10012/haynes.html |title=Cold War Historian John Haynes Named Kluge Staff Fellow |author=Villamil, Patricia |work=Information Bulletin |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref> John Earl Haynes, [[Emory University]] professor of politics and history<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.polisci.emory.edu/facultypages/klehr.htm |title=Harvey Klehr, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History |work=Department of Political Science |publisher=Emory University |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref> Harvey Klehr, and former KGB agent<ref>"Alexander Vassiliev is ... a former KGB agent...."{{cite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=31935 |title=Alexander Vassiliev, author spotlight |publisher=Random House, Inc. |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref> Alexander Vassiliev, "Seldes lied."<ref>{{cite book |title=Spies: the rise and fall of the KGB in America |last=Haynes |first=John Earl |coauthors=Harvey Klehr, Alexander Vassiliev |year=2009 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0300123906 |page=169 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref>

Seldes was actually a long-time secret member of the [[CPUSA|Communist Party]], according to notes of [[KGB]] archival files made by Vassiliev in 1993-96. A cable from the [[NKVD]]'s [[New York City|New York]] station to [[Moscow]] Center, dated April 19, 1940, identifies "George Seldes" as "a longtime fellowcountryman [Communist Party member],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-mystery-of-ales-2/ |title=The Mystery of Ales (Expanded Version) |first1=Kai |last1=Bird |first2=Svenlana |last2=Chervonnaya |year=2007 |publisher=theamericanscholar.org (Phi Beta Kappa Society) |accessdate=9 January 2011 |quote=In Venona cables, Communist Party membership appears under the cover word of 'zemlyak' (plural: 'zemlyaki'; feminine: 'zemlyachka'), which was translated by the [[National Security Agency|NSA]] as 'fellowcountryman'....}}</ref> who is listed on a special register [secret roll of Communist Party members]."<ref>{{cite book |title=Spies: the rise and fall of the KGB in America |last=Haynes |first=John Earl |coauthors=Harvey Klehr, Alexander Vassiliev |year=2009 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0300123906 |page=169 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC |accessdate=9 January 2011}} Cf. {{cite book |title=Black Notebook (Translated) |last=Vassiliev |first=Alexander |year=1994 |publisher=Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |location=Washington, DC |page=164 |url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Black%20Notebook%20Translated1.pdf |accessdate=9 January 2011}}; {{cite book |title=Black Notebook (Original) |last=Vassiliev |first=Alexander |editor1-first=John Earl |editor1-last=Haynes |editor2-first=Phillip B. |editor3=Redko |year=1994 |publisher=Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |location=Washington, DC |page=164 (PDF p. 83) |url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Black%20Notebook%20Original.pdf |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref>

Seldes was actually a long-time secret member of the [[CPUSA|Communist Party]], according to notes of [[KGB]] archival files made by Vassiliev in 1993-96. A cable from the [[NKVD]]'s [[New York City|New York]] station to [[Moscow]] Center, dated April 19, 1940, identifies "George Seldes" as "a longtime fellowcountryman [Communist Party member],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-mystery-of-ales-2/ |title=The Mystery of Ales (Expanded Version) |first1=Kai |last1=Bird |first2=Svenlana |last2=Chervonnaya |year=2007 |publisher=theamericanscholar.org (Phi Beta Kappa Society) |accessdate=9 January 2011 |quote=In Venona cables, Communist Party membership appears under the cover word of 'zemlyak' (plural: 'zemlyaki'; feminine: 'zemlyachka'), which was translated by the [[National Security Agency|NSA]] as 'fellowcountryman'....}}</ref> who is listed on a special register [secret roll of Communist Party members]."<ref>{{cite book |title=Spies: the rise and fall of the KGB in America |last=Haynes |first=John Earl |coauthors=Harvey Klehr, Alexander Vassiliev |year=2009 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0300123906 |page=169 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC |accessdate=9 January 2011}} Cf. {{cite book |title=Black Notebook (Translated) |last=Vassiliev |first=Alexander |year=1994 |publisher=Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |location=Washington, DC |page=164 |url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Black%20Notebook%20Translated1.pdf |accessdate=9 January 2011}}; {{cite book |title=Black Notebook (Original) |last=Vassiliev |first=Alexander |editor1-first=John Earl |editor1-last=Haynes |editor2-first=Phillip B. |editor3=Redko |year=1994 |publisher=Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |location=Washington, DC |page=164 (PDF p. 83) |url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Black%20Notebook%20Original.pdf |accessdate=9 January 2011}}</ref>