Donald Wheeler - Revision history

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Barack Obama, Sr.

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 * Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, ''The Secret World of American Communism'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995)
-* Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America--the Stalin Era'' (New York: Random House, 1999), pgs. 106, 225, 251-56, 257, 259, 261, 264, 286.
+* [[Allen Weinstein]] and [[Alexander Vassiliev]], ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America--the Stalin Era'' (New York: Random House, 1999), pgs. 106, 225, 251-56, 257, 259, 261, 264, 286.
 * [http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/silversm.htm Silvermaster Group FBI FOIA]

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	==Barack Obama, Sr.==		==Barack Obama, Sr.==
		+	Wheeler's son Tim Wheeler wrote in 2017 that in 1961
		+	[[Barack Obama]]'s father, Barack Obama Sr., visited the family farm in Sequim, Washington with his pregnant girlfriend.<ref>https://m.theepochtimes.com/did-barack-obama-sr-meet-a-soviet-spy-on-a-washington-farm_2727785.html</ref>

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 Beginning in 1944 the entire range of OSS planning documents on the postwar occupation of Germany were supplied to KGB head General [[Pavel Fitin]] in Moscow through Wheeler.  Wheeler was considered the most active operative within the Perlo group. His complicity in espionage was corroborated by information exhumed from the NKVD archives in the 1990s.  Wheeler appears in [[Venona]] as a Soviet source under the cover name "Izra".
-Wheeler and his family moved to a dairy farm in Sequim, Washington. He remained active in the CPUSA until his death in 2002.
+Wheeler and his family moved to a dairy farm in Sequim, Washington. He remained active in the CPUSA until his death in 2002.<ref>https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/book-review-rich-depiction-of-pacific-nw-and-its-people/</ref>
 ==Barack Obama, Sr.==

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 * [http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=library.document&id=50A Vladimir Pozniakov, ''NKVD/NKGB Report to Stalin: A Glimpse into Soviet Intelligence in the United States in the 1940's'']
 {{DEFAULTSORT:Wheeler, Donald Nivan}}
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	Beginning in 1944 the entire range of OSS planning documents on the postwar occupation of Germany were supplied to KGB head General [[Pavel Fitin]] in Moscow through Wheeler. Wheeler was considered the most active operative within the Perlo group. His complicity in espionage was corroborated by information exhumed from the NKVD archives in the 1990s. Wheeler appears in [[Venona]] as a Soviet source under the cover name "Izra".		Beginning in 1944 the entire range of OSS planning documents on the postwar occupation of Germany were supplied to KGB head General [[Pavel Fitin]] in Moscow through Wheeler. Wheeler was considered the most active operative within the Perlo group. His complicity in espionage was corroborated by information exhumed from the NKVD archives in the 1990s. Wheeler appears in [[Venona]] as a Soviet source under the cover name "Izra".
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		+	Wheeler and his family moved to a dairy farm in Sequim, Washington. He remained active in the CPUSA until his death in 2002.
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 '''Donald Nivan Wheeler''' was a graduate of Yale and later member of the faculty. Lee also attended college in England with [[Duncan Lee]] who described him as a really "[[Liberal|progressive person]]".  Wheeler was associated with various [[Comintern]] organizations before being employed by the government, first in the United States Department of Agriculture, later the Department of Treasury.  From 1941 to 1946 Wheeler was employed by the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) in Washington D.C.  Wheeler was a member of the white collar units of the Communist Party of the District of Columbia.  [[Franz Leopold Neumann|Franz Neuman]], who worked with him in the OSS gave a good report to Moscow, describing him as "a calm and [[Progressivism|progressive]] man".

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-'''Donald Nivan Wheeler''' was a graduate of Yale and later member of the faculty. Lee also attended college in England with [[Duncan Lee]] who described him as a really "[[Liberal|progressive person]]".  Wheeler was associated with various [[Comintern]] organizations before being employed by the government, first in the United States Department of Agriculture, later the Department of Treasury.  From 1941 to 1946 Wheeler was employed by the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) in Washington D.C.  Wheeler was a member of the white collar units of the Communist Party of the District of Columbia.  [[Franz Leopold Neumann|Franz Neuman]], who worked with him in the OSS gave a good report to Moscow, describing him as "a calm and progressive man".
+'''Donald Nivan Wheeler''' was a graduate of Yale and later member of the faculty. Lee also attended college in England with [[Duncan Lee]] who described him as a really "[[Liberal|progressive person]]".  Wheeler was associated with various [[Comintern]] organizations before being employed by the government, first in the United States Department of Agriculture, later the Department of Treasury.  From 1941 to 1946 Wheeler was employed by the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) in Washington D.C.  Wheeler was a member of the white collar units of the Communist Party of the District of Columbia.  [[Franz Leopold Neumann|Franz Neuman]], who worked with him in the OSS gave a good report to Moscow, describing him as "a calm and [[Progressivism|progressive]] man".
 In November 1943 [[Earl Browder]], Chairman of the [[CPUSA]], turned control of the [[Perlo group]] of Soviet spies over to [[Jacob Golos]] two months before his death and it subsequently was taken over by his girl friend, [[Elizabeth Bentley]].