Philip Levy

This article is part of the Venona series.

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Philip Levy was an American and secretly a Communist who worked closely with Leon Josephson in espionage activity on behalf of Soviet intelligence. Levy allowed the use of his home as a place to store documents purloined by the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) secret appartus from people critical of the party.

Reference

• Klehr, Haynes, and Firsov, The Secret World of American Communism, 131–132.
• “Comintern Apparatus Summary Report,” 15 December 1944, FBI Comintern Apparatus file (FBI file 100-103581), serial 3702.
• John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 377, 470.