Difference between revisions of "Soviet spies in America (1921-1948)"

From Conservapedia
Jump to: navigation, search
(NY ''Rezidentura'': cite)
m (Sound and Myrna groups)
 
(16 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown)
Line 27: Line 27:
 
::*[[Harry Dexter White]]
 
::*[[Harry Dexter White]]
  
===NY ''Rezidentura''===
+
===NY ''[[Rezidentura]]''===
*'''[[Vladimir Pravdin]] NY Rezident'''
+
*'''[[Vladimir Pravdin]] NY [[Rezident]]'''
**[[Olga Pravdina]] <ref>Underground Soviet Espionage (NKVD) in Agencies of the United States Government, FBI Silvermaster file, [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster082.pdf Vol. 82, pg. 327] pdf.</ref> (wife), Ministry of Trade
+
**[[Olga Pravdina]] <ref>Underground Soviet Espionage (NKVD) in Agencies of the United States Government, FBI Silvermaster file, [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster082.pdf Vol. 82, pg. 327] pdf, October 21, 1946.</ref> (wife), Ministry of Trade
  
 
*'''[[Gaik Ovakimian]] (1933 - 1941) NY Rezident'''
 
*'''[[Gaik Ovakimian]] (1933 - 1941) NY Rezident'''
Line 63: Line 63:
 
:*[[Harry Rabinovich]] ('''Gregory Rabinovich''') ('''Gregory Rabinowitz''') ( - d.1938)
 
:*[[Harry Rabinovich]] ('''Gregory Rabinovich''') ('''Gregory Rabinowitz''') ( - d.1938)
 
:*[[Andrey Ivanovich Raina]] X-line 1942-1946  
 
:*[[Andrey Ivanovich Raina]] X-line 1942-1946  
:*[[Stepan Nikolaevich Shudenko]] [http://books.google.com/books?id=M2pbieYYHrYC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=stepan+shudenko&source=web&ots=f8lvlVXKra&sig=SczeyXim0_QAdBj8Dl2dTVymtis]
+
:*[[Stepan Nikolaevich Shudenko]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=M2pbieYYHrYC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=stepan+shudenko&source=web&ots=f8lvlVXKra&sig=SczeyXim0_QAdBj8Dl2dTVymtis]
  
  
Line 94: Line 94:
 
:::*[[Irving Kaplan]], United States Department of the Treasury Foreign Economic Administration; United Nations Division of Economic Stability and Development; Chief Advisor to the [[Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories|Military Government of Germany]]
 
:::*[[Irving Kaplan]], United States Department of the Treasury Foreign Economic Administration; United Nations Division of Economic Stability and Development; Chief Advisor to the [[Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories|Military Government of Germany]]
 
:::*[[Joseph Katz]]
 
:::*[[Joseph Katz]]
:::*[[Charles Kramer]], Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; [[Office of Price Administration]]; National Labor Relations Board; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; [[Democratic National Committee]]  
+
:::*[[Charles Kramer]], Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; [[Office of Price Administration]]; [[National Labor Relations Board]]; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; [[Democratic National Committee]]  
 
:::*[[Duncan Lee]], counsel to General William Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services  
 
:::*[[Duncan Lee]], counsel to General William Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services  
 
:::*[[Bernice Levin]], Office of Emergency Management; Office of Production Management  
 
:::*[[Bernice Levin]], Office of Emergency Management; Office of Production Management  
Line 107: Line 107:
 
:::*[[William Remington]], War Production Board; Office of Emergency Management  
 
:::*[[William Remington]], War Production Board; Office of Emergency Management  
 
:::*[[Ruth Rivkin]], [[United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]]  
 
:::*[[Ruth Rivkin]], [[United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]]  
:::*[[Allan Rosenberg]], Board of Economic Warfare; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Railroad Retirement Board; Councel to the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board  
+
:::*[[Allan Rosenberg]], Board of Economic Warfare; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Railroad Retirement Board; Councel to the Secretary of the [[National Labor Relations Board]]
 
:::*[[Bernard Schuster]]
 
:::*[[Bernard Schuster]]
 
:::*[[Greg Silvermaster]], Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division, United States Department of the Treasury; Chief Economist, War Assets Administration; Director of the Labor Division, Farm Security Administration; Board of Economic Warfare; [[Reconstruction Finance Corporation]] Department of  
 
:::*[[Greg Silvermaster]], Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division, United States Department of the Treasury; Chief Economist, War Assets Administration; Director of the Labor Division, Farm Security Administration; Board of Economic Warfare; [[Reconstruction Finance Corporation]] Department of  
Line 114: Line 114:
 
:::*[[Helen Tenney]], Office of Strategic Services  
 
:::*[[Helen Tenney]], Office of Strategic Services  
 
:::*[[Lee Tenney]], Balkan Division Office of Strategic Services  
 
:::*[[Lee Tenney]], Balkan Division Office of Strategic Services  
:::*[[Lud Ullman]], delegate to United Nations Charter meeting and [[Bretton Woods Conference]]; Division of Monetary Research, Department of Treasury; Material and Services Division, Air Corps Headquarters, Pentagon  
+
:::*[[Lud Ullman]], delegate to [[United Nations Charter]] meeting and [[Bretton Woods Conference]]; Division of Monetary Research, Department of Treasury; Material and Services Division, Air Corps Headquarters, Pentagon  
 
:::*[[David Weintraub]], United States Department of State; head of the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA); United Nations Division of Economic Stability and Development
 
:::*[[David Weintraub]], United States Department of State; head of the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA); United Nations Division of Economic Stability and Development
 
:::*[[Donald Wheeler]], Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis division
 
:::*[[Donald Wheeler]], Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis division
Line 141: Line 141:
 
::*[[Victor Perlo]] (5 March 1944 - )
 
::*[[Victor Perlo]] (5 March 1944 - )
 
::*[[Charles Kramer]], Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; [[Office of Price Administration]]; [[National Labor Relations Board]]; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]]; [[LaFollette Committee|Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties]]; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; [[Democratic National Committee]]
 
::*[[Charles Kramer]], Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; [[Office of Price Administration]]; [[National Labor Relations Board]]; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]]; [[LaFollette Committee|Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties]]; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; [[Democratic National Committee]]
::*[[Edward Fitzgerald (Soviet spy) |Edward Fitzgerald]], [[War Production Board]]  
+
::*[[Edward Fitzgerald (Soviet spy)|Edward Fitzgerald]], [[War Production Board]]  
 
::*[[Harry Magdoff]], Statistical Division of War Production Board and Office of Emergency Management; Bureau of Research and Statistics, WTB; Tools Division, War Production Board; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, [[United States Department of Commerce]]  
 
::*[[Harry Magdoff]], Statistical Division of War Production Board and Office of Emergency Management; Bureau of Research and Statistics, WTB; Tools Division, War Production Board; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, [[United States Department of Commerce]]  
  
Line 148: Line 148:
 
****[[Sol Leshinsky]], [[United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]]  
 
****[[Sol Leshinsky]], [[United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]]  
 
****[[George Perazich]], [[Foreign Economic Administration]]; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
 
****[[George Perazich]], [[Foreign Economic Administration]]; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
**** [[Allen Rosenberg]], [[Board of Economic Warfare]]; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties; Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Railroad Retirement Board; Councel to the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board
+
**** [[Allen Rosenberg]], [[Board of Economic Warfare]]; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties; Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Railroad Retirement Board; Councel to the Secretary of the [[National Labor Relations Board]]
 
**** [[Donald Wheeler]], [[Office of Strategic Services]] Research and Analysis division
 
**** [[Donald Wheeler]], [[Office of Strategic Services]] Research and Analysis division
  
Line 165: Line 165:
 
:::*[[Richard Setaro]], journalist/writer, former employee of the Columbia Broadcasting System ([[CBC]]), in Buenos Aires.
 
:::*[[Richard Setaro]], journalist/writer, former employee of the Columbia Broadcasting System ([[CBC]]), in Buenos Aires.
 
:::*[[A. Slavianin]]
 
:::*[[A. Slavianin]]
:::*[[ S. M Semenov]] [Semyonov], rezident, technical intelligence for the [[KI]] in Paris
+
:::*[[S. M Semenov]] [Semyonov], rezident, technical intelligence for the [[KI]] in Paris
 
:::*[[A.A. Yatskov]]
 
:::*[[A.A. Yatskov]]
 
:::*[[O. V. Shimmel]]
 
:::*[[O. V. Shimmel]]
Line 174: Line 174:
 
*[[Otto Alleman]], [[Du Pont]] chemist.
 
*[[Otto Alleman]], [[Du Pont]] chemist.
  
===='''Atlschuler group'''====
+
====Atlschuler group====
 
:*[[Lydia Altschuler]]
 
:*[[Lydia Altschuler]]
  
Line 201: Line 201:
 
::*[[Maurice Halperin]], chief of the Latin American Division of OSS Research and Analysis  
 
::*[[Maurice Halperin]], chief of the Latin American Division of OSS Research and Analysis  
 
::*[[Hans Hirschfeld]], OSS consultant on Germany
 
::*[[Hans Hirschfeld]], OSS consultant on Germany
::*[[Bella Joseph]], motion picture section of OSS)
+
::*[[Bella Joseph]], motion picture section of OSS
 
::*[[Julius Joseph]], OSS Far Eastern section
 
::*[[Julius Joseph]], OSS Far Eastern section
 
::*[[Duncan Lee]], counsel to General Donovan and the OSS's Japanese intelligence section
 
::*[[Duncan Lee]], counsel to General Donovan and the OSS's Japanese intelligence section
Line 214: Line 214:
 
::*[[John Scott]]
 
::*[[John Scott]]
 
::*[[George Vuchinich]], OSS
 
::*[[George Vuchinich]], OSS
 +
::*[[Koji Ariyoshi]]
  
  
Line 328: Line 329:
 
*'''[[Joseph Romualdovich Grigulevich]], ''Illegal Rezident''
 
*'''[[Joseph Romualdovich Grigulevich]], ''Illegal Rezident''
  
==[[KGB]] '''''Illegal Rezidentura'''''==
+
==[[KGB Illegal]] Rezidentura==
  
 
*'''[[Valentin Markin]] ''Illegal NY Rezident''''' ( - August 1934?)
 
*'''[[Valentin Markin]] ''Illegal NY Rezident''''' ( - August 1934?)
Line 373: Line 374:
 
*[[Pavel Melkishev]] (Pavel Mikhailov) (1941 – 1945)  '''NY Rezident''' [http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su07/ales-birdlong4.html]
 
*[[Pavel Melkishev]] (Pavel Mikhailov) (1941 – 1945)  '''NY Rezident''' [http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su07/ales-birdlong4.html]
  
====GRU San Fransisco Rezidentura====
+
====GRU San Francisco Rezidentura====
  
 
*[[Peter Ivanov]]
 
*[[Peter Ivanov]]
Line 431: Line 432:
 
:::*[[Lester Hubsch]], Frankford Arsenal
 
:::*[[Lester Hubsch]], Frankford Arsenal
 
:::*[[Felix Inslerman]]
 
:::*[[Felix Inslerman]]
:::*[[Charles Kramer]], Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; [[Office of Price Administration]]; National Labor Relations Board; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; [[Senate Civil Liberties Subcommittee]], Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
+
:::*[[Charles Kramer]], Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; [[Office of Price Administration]]; [[National Labor Relations Board]]; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; [[Senate Civil Liberties Subcommittee]], Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
 
:::*[[Peter MacLean]], reporter and photojournalist
 
:::*[[Peter MacLean]], reporter and photojournalist
 
:::*[[Victor Perlo]]
 
:::*[[Victor Perlo]]
 
:::*[[Ward Pigman]], National Bureau of Standards; Labor and Public Welfare Committee
 
:::*[[Ward Pigman]], National Bureau of Standards; Labor and Public Welfare Committee
 
:::*[[Lee Pressman]], Department of Agriculture; [[Works Progress Administration]]; General Counsel Congress of Industrial Organizations ([[CIO]])  
 
:::*[[Lee Pressman]], Department of Agriculture; [[Works Progress Administration]]; General Counsel Congress of Industrial Organizations ([[CIO]])  
:::*[[Vincent Reno]], mathematician at United States Army [[Aberdeen%2C_Maryland#Aberdeen_Proving_Ground|Aberdeen Proving Ground]]
+
:::*[[Vincent Reno]], mathematician at United States Army [[Aberdeen, Maryland#Aberdeen Proving Ground|Aberdeen Proving Ground]]
 
:::*[[Harry Rosenthal]]
 
:::*[[Harry Rosenthal]]
 
:::*[[Viktor Vasilevish Sveshchnikov]], [[United States War Department]]
 
:::*[[Viktor Vasilevish Sveshchnikov]], [[United States War Department]]
Line 457: Line 458:
 
:*[[Joshua Tamer]]
 
:*[[Joshua Tamer]]
  
=='''Naval GRU'''==
+
==Naval GRU==
  
 
**[[Eugene Franklin Coleman]], [[RCA]] electrical engineer  
 
**[[Eugene Franklin Coleman]], [[RCA]] electrical engineer  
Line 465: Line 466:
 
==Lines==
 
==Lines==
  
===I-line===  
+
===I-line===
 
- informational line
 
- informational line
 
*[[Josef Peters]]
 
*[[Josef Peters]]
===P-line===  
+
===P-line===
 
- political line
 
- political line
  
===X-line===  
+
===X-line===
 
- atomic or scientific-technical line
 
- atomic or scientific-technical line
 
**[[Semyon Semenov]] (1938 - 1944) NY  
 
**[[Semyon Semenov]] (1938 - 1944) NY  
Line 484: Line 485:
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
 +
<references/>
 
*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/venon00017.cfm  National Security Agency Archives] Cryptographic Museum, Custodian of Documents for the Army Signals Intelligence Agency.
 
*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/venon00017.cfm  National Security Agency Archives] Cryptographic Museum, Custodian of Documents for the Army Signals Intelligence Agency.
*KGB Archives, Gorsky Memo: Translation of KGB file 43173 vol. 2 (v) pp. 46-55. [http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page44.html]
+
*KGB Archives, Gorsky Memo: Translation of KGB file 43173 vol. 2 (v) pp.&nbsp;46–55. [http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page44.html]
*Elizabeth Bentley deposition, 30 November 1945, FBI file 65-14603 [http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/silversm.htm]
+
*[http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster006.pdf Elizabeth Bentley deposition, 30 November 1945, FBI file 65-14603] (pgs. 2 - 108, pdf).
 
*Hoover to Frederick B. Lyon, 24 September 1945, Central Intelligence Agency, Igor Gouzenko file. [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/part1.htm]
 
*Hoover to Frederick B. Lyon, 24 September 1945, Central Intelligence Agency, Igor Gouzenko file. [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/part1.htm]
 
*Anonymous letter to Hoover, undated [received 7 August 1943], National Security Agency Venona Collection, 54-001, box D046 [Russian original with English translation]. [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/part1.htm]
 
*Anonymous letter to Hoover, undated [received 7 August 1943], National Security Agency Venona Collection, 54-001, box D046 [Russian original with English translation]. [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/part1.htm]
*"Underground Espionage Agent", Adolf Berle’s Notes on his Meeting with Whittaker Chambers, Sept. 2, 1939. [http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page100.html]
+
*"Underground Espionage Agent", Adolf Berle's Notes on his Meeting with Whittaker Chambers, Sept. 2, 1939. [http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page100.html]
 
*FBI Headquarters File 100-63, Louis Francis Budenz, Internal Security—C, Serial 122. [http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft296nb15t&chunk.id=d0e6193&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e4718&brand=eschol]
 
*FBI Headquarters File 100-63, Louis Francis Budenz, Internal Security—C, Serial 122. [http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft296nb15t&chunk.id=d0e6193&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e4718&brand=eschol]
  
[[Category:espionage]]
 
  
==External link==
+
==External links==
 
*[http://svr.gov.ru/history/person.htm SVR, History of personal] (In Russian).
 
*[http://svr.gov.ru/history/person.htm SVR, History of personal] (In Russian).
 
+
{{communism}}
[[category:espionage]]
+
[[Category:Espionage]]
 +
[[Category:Communism]]
 +
[[Category:Soviet Union]]

Latest revision as of 21:00, July 5, 2024

Chronology and structure of Comintern, Communist Party USA, and Soviet espionage networks in the United States. The CPUSA's secret apparatus operated a very large and successful organization in the United States from about 1921 to about 1948.

KGB

Ware group

NY Rezidentura







Sound and Myrna groups


Silvermaster group
  • Anatole Volkov, son of Helen Silvermaster
  • Solomon Adler, United States Department of the Treasury
  • Norman Chandler Bursler, United States Department of Justice Anti-Trust Division
  • Frank Coe, Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, Treasury Department; Special Assistant to the United States Ambassador in London; Assistant to the Executive Director, Board of Economic Warfare; Assistant Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration
  • Lauchlin Currie, Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt; Deputy Administrator of Foreign Economic Administration; Special Representative to China
  • Bela Gold, Assistant Head of Program Surveys, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Agriculture Department; Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Economic Programs in Foreign Economic Administration
  • Sonia Steinman Gold, Division of Monetary Research U.S. Treasury Department; U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Interstate Migration; U.S. Bureau of Employment Security
  • Irving Kaplan, Foreign Funds Control and Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury Foreign Economic Administration; chief advisor to the Military Government of Germany
  • George Silverman, civilian Chief Production Specialist, Material Division, Army Air Force Air Staff, War Department, Pentagon
  • William Henry Taylor, Assistant Director of the Middle East Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of Treasury
  • Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Head of the International Monetary Fund
Perlo group

The “Berg” – “Art” Group

  • Alexander Koral (1939 - 1945), former engineer of the municipality of New York.
  • Helen Koral (1939 - 1945), Berg’s wife, housewife.


  • Louis Adamic, writer and spokesman for Yugoslav immigrants. During World War II, advised the OSS on Balkan questions. Source for Golos-Bentley network via Louis Budenz
  • Otto Alleman, Du Pont chemist.

Atlschuler group



Buben group

  • Louis Budenz, (1935 - 1945) former member of the Central Committee of the CPUSA, former editor of the newspaper Daily Worker, professor at Fordham Catholic University.
  • Robert Menaker, commercial traveler [traveling salesman] to a variety of trade firms.
  • Frank Palmer, Place of employment unknown. Former member of the CPUSA, broke with the Communist Party in 1937. “Buben” was recruited with his assistance.
  • Salmond Franklin, without specific assignments, husband of “Rita.” Used as a “signaller” [Russian: sviazist = communications man].
  • Sylvia Caldwell, technical secretary for a Trotskyite group in New York.
  • Harry Rabinovich (Gregory Rabinovich)

CPUSA/OSS

  • Carl Marzani, Deputy Chief Photographic Presentation Branch Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State

OSS


Mocase


Rosenberg ring


DC Rezidentura

SF Rezidentura

Ottawa Rezidentura

Mexico City Rezidentura

South America

KGB Illegal Rezidentura


Redhead group


GRU

    • Arnold Ikal ( - 1937) (Donald L. Robinson), (Adolph A. Rubens)

GRU Rezidentura

GRU San Francisco Rezidentura


GRU Illegals



  • Boris Bykov (Boris Yakovlevich Bukov), Illegal Rezident (1936 - 1939)


Karl group


Naval GRU

Lines

I-line

- informational line

P-line

- political line

X-line

- atomic or scientific-technical line

See also

References

  1. Underground Soviet Espionage (NKVD) in Agencies of the United States Government, FBI Silvermaster file, Vol. 82, pg. 327 pdf, October 21, 1946.
  • National Security Agency Archives Cryptographic Museum, Custodian of Documents for the Army Signals Intelligence Agency.
  • KGB Archives, Gorsky Memo: Translation of KGB file 43173 vol. 2 (v) pp. 46–55. [17]
  • Elizabeth Bentley deposition, 30 November 1945, FBI file 65-14603 (pgs. 2 - 108, pdf).
  • Hoover to Frederick B. Lyon, 24 September 1945, Central Intelligence Agency, Igor Gouzenko file. [18]
  • Anonymous letter to Hoover, undated [received 7 August 1943], National Security Agency Venona Collection, 54-001, box D046 [Russian original with English translation]. [19]
  • "Underground Espionage Agent", Adolf Berle's Notes on his Meeting with Whittaker Chambers, Sept. 2, 1939. [20]
  • FBI Headquarters File 100-63, Louis Francis Budenz, Internal Security—C, Serial 122. [21]


External links