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| + | '''Josef Berger''', or '''Joseph Isadore Berger''' (May 12, 1903 - November 1971), was an [[United States|American]] journalist and [[Democratic National Committee]] speechwriter. Berger also worked for the KGB. Berger was born in Denver, Colorado in 1903 and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1924. He worked as a reporter for the "Kansas City Star" for a time. | ||
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| + | In 1934, he settled with his wife and daughter in Provincetown, Massachusetts where he tried to make it as a freelance writer. Berger had a hard time earning money and for about year lived in near poverty until he found a job with the [[New Deal]] government sponsored Federal Writer's Project. | ||
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| + | Berger, who wrote under the pen name '''Jeremiah Digges''', was an extraordinarily well-connected journalist employed by the [[United States Department of Justice]] in [[1942]] as a speech-writer for the Attorney-General, [[Francis Biddle]], and later also secretary to the chairman of the [[Democratic National Committee]] (DNC), Robert E. Hannegan. He also served as a U.S. delegate on the Reparations Commission. | ||
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| + | == Sources == | ||
| + | * [http://foia.fbi.gov/venona/venona.pdf FBI Venona Files] | ||
| + | * John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999) | ||
| + | * Marcia and Thomas Mitchell, ''The Spy Who Seduced America: Lies and Betrayal in the Heat of the Cold War: The Judith Coplon Story'', (Invisible Cities Press LLC, 2002) ISBN 1931229228 | ||
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Josef Berger, or Joseph Isadore Berger (May 12, 1903 - November 1971), was an American journalist and Democratic National Committee speechwriter. Berger also worked for the KGB. Berger was born in Denver, Colorado in 1903 and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1924. He worked as a reporter for the "Kansas City Star" for a time.
In 1934, he settled with his wife and daughter in Provincetown, Massachusetts where he tried to make it as a freelance writer. Berger had a hard time earning money and for about year lived in near poverty until he found a job with the New Deal government sponsored Federal Writer's Project.
Berger, who wrote under the pen name Jeremiah Digges, was an extraordinarily well-connected journalist employed by the United States Department of Justice in 1942 as a speech-writer for the Attorney-General, Francis Biddle, and later also secretary to the chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Robert E. Hannegan. He also served as a U.S. delegate on the Reparations Commission.
Sources
- FBI Venona Files
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)
- Marcia and Thomas Mitchell, The Spy Who Seduced America: Lies and Betrayal in the Heat of the Cold War: The Judith Coplon Story, (Invisible Cities Press LLC, 2002) ISBN 1931229228