'''Joseph Katz''' worked for Soviet intelligence from the 1930s to the late 1940s as one of its most active liaison agents. Katz was assigned management of the “First Line,” that part of the [[NKGB]] mission aimed at recruiting selected members of the [[CPUSA]]. He was an agent/group leader (gruppovik) and co-owner of a Soviet front company that manufactured gloves. | '''Joseph Katz''' worked for Soviet intelligence from the 1930s to the late 1940s as one of its most active liaison agents. Katz was assigned management of the “First Line,” that part of the [[NKGB]] mission aimed at recruiting selected members of the [[CPUSA]]. He was an agent/group leader (gruppovik) and co-owner of a Soviet front company that manufactured gloves. |