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====[[Harold Ware|Ware group]]====
 
====[[Harold Ware|Ware group]]====
  
**[[Hal Ware]] (1925 - 1935)
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:*[[Hal Ware]] (1925 - 1935)
**[[John Abt]] (1935 - March 1944)
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:*[[John Abt]] (1935 - March 1944)
  
 
::*[[Marion Bachrach]]
 
::*[[Marion Bachrach]]
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*** [[Morris Cohen (Soviet spy)|Morris Cohen]] (1938 - 1950)
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::* [[Morris Cohen (Soviet spy)|Morris Cohen]] (1938 - 1950)
*** [[Lona Cohen]] (1941 - 1950)
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::* [[Lona Cohen]] (1941 - 1950)
  
**[[Jacob Golos]] (1921 - 27 November 1943)
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:*[[Jacob Golos]] (1921 - 27 November 1943)
***[[Elizabeth Bentley]] (4 December 1943 - August 1945)
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::*[[Elizabeth Bentley]] (4 December 1943 - August 1945)
  
  
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=====[[Greg Silvermaster|Silvermaster group]]=====
 
=====[[Greg Silvermaster|Silvermaster group]]=====
  
***[[Greg Silvermaster|Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]]
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::*[[Greg Silvermaster|Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]]
***[[Helen Silvermaster]] (wife)
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::*[[Helen Silvermaster]] (wife)
***[[Lud Ullman]]
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::*[[Lud Ullman]]
  
 
:::*[[Anatole Volkov]], son of Helen Silvermaster
 
:::*[[Anatole Volkov]], son of Helen Silvermaster
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=====[[Perlo group]]=====
 
=====[[Perlo group]]=====
  
***[[Victor Perlo]] (5 March 1944 - )
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::*[[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]]
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::*[[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  
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::*[[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]]  
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::*[[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]]  
  
 
****[[Harold Glasser]], Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; [[United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]]; War Production Board; Advisor on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the [[Allied Commission|Allied High Commission in Italy]]
 
****[[Harold Glasser]], Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; [[United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]]; War Production Board; Advisor on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the [[Allied Commission|Allied High Commission in Italy]]
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====The “Berg” – “Art” Group====
 
====The “Berg” – “Art” Group====
  
***[[Alexander Koral]] (1939 - 1945), former engineer of the municipality of New York.
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::*[[Alexander Koral]] (1939 - 1945), former engineer of the municipality of New York.
***[[Helen Koral]] (1939 - 1945), Berg’s wife, housewife.
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::*[[Helen Koral]] (1939 - 1945), Berg’s wife, housewife.
  
 
:::*[[Richard Koral]], son, student.
 
:::*[[Richard Koral]], son, student.
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===='''Atlschuler group'''====
 
===='''Atlschuler group'''====
**[[Lydia Altschuler]]
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:*[[Lydia Altschuler]]
  
  
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====Buben group====
 
====Buben group====
 
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*[[Gregory Rabinovich]]
**[[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.
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:*[[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.
 
::*[[Robert Menaker]], commercial traveler [traveling salesman] to a variety of trade firms.
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===CPUSA/OSS===
 
===CPUSA/OSS===
  
**[[Eugene Dennis]], senior member of the [[CPUSA]] leadership
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:*[[Eugene Dennis]], senior member of the [[CPUSA]] leadership
***[[Carl Marzani]], Deputy Chief Photographic Presentation Branch Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
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::*[[Carl Marzani]], Deputy Chief Photographic Presentation Branch Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
  
 
====OSS====
 
====OSS====
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====Mocase====
 
====Mocase====
  
**[[Jack Soble]]
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:*[[Jack Soble]]
  
 
::*[[Myra Soble]]
 
::*[[Myra Soble]]
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====[[Hede Massing|Redhead group]]====
 
====[[Hede Massing|Redhead group]]====
 
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*[[Boris Bazarov]]
 
**[[Hede Massing]], (c.1925 - 1948)
 
**[[Hede Massing]], (c.1925 - 1948)
  
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===[[Whittaker Chambers#Members of the Karl group|Karl group]]===
 
===[[Whittaker Chambers#Members of the Karl group|Karl group]]===
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:*[[J. Peters]]
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::*[[Whittaker Chambers]] (1932 - 1938)
  
**[[Whittaker Chambers]] (1932 - 1938)
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:::*[[Harry Azizov]]
 
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:::*[[David Carpenter (spy)|David Carpenter]] ([[David Zimmerman]])
::*[[Harry Azizov]]
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:::*[[Noel Field]], United States Department of State  
::*[[David Carpenter (spy)|David Carpenter]] ([[David Zimmerman]])
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:::*[[Harold Glasser]], Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; [[United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]]; War Production Board; Advisor on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy
::*[[Noel Field]], United States Department of State  
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:::*[[Alger Hiss]], United States Department of State
::*[[Harold Glasser]], Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; [[United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]]; War Production Board; Advisor on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy
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:::*[[Donald Hiss]], United States Department of State; [[United States Department of Labor]]; [[United States Department of the Interior]]  
::*[[Alger Hiss]], United States Department of State
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:::*[[Lester Hubsch]], Frankford Arsenal
::*[[Donald Hiss]], United States Department of State; [[United States Department of Labor]]; [[United States Department of the Interior]]  
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:::*[[Felix Inslerman]]
::*[[Lester Hubsch]], Frankford Arsenal
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:::*[[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
::*[[Felix Inslerman]]
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:::*[[Peter MacLean]], reporter and photojournalist
::*[[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
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:::*[[Victor Perlo]]
::*[[Peter MacLean]], reporter and photojournalist
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:::*[[Ward Pigman]], National Bureau of Standards; Labor and Public Welfare Committee
::*[[Victor Perlo]]
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:::*[[Lee Pressman]], Department of Agriculture; [[Works Progress Administration]]; General Counsel Congress of Industrial Organizations ([[CIO]])  
::*[[Josef Peters]]
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:::*[[Vincent Reno]], mathematician at United States Army [[Aberdeen%2C_Maryland#Aberdeen_Proving_Ground|Aberdeen Proving Ground]]
::*[[Ward Pigman]], National Bureau of Standards; Labor and Public Welfare Committee
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:::*[[Harry Rosenthal]]
::*[[Lee Pressman]], Department of Agriculture; [[Works Progress Administration]]; General Counsel Congress of Industrial Organizations ([[CIO]])  
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:::*[[Viktor Vasilevish Sveshchnikov]], [[United States War Department]]
::*[[Vincent Reno]], mathematician at United States Army [[Aberdeen%2C_Maryland#Aberdeen_Proving_Ground|Aberdeen Proving Ground]]
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:::*[[George Silverman]], Director of the Bureau of Research and Information Services, US Railroad Retirement Board; Economic Adviser and Chief of Analysis and Plans, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Material and Services, War Department
::*[[Harry Rosenthal]]
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:::*[[Julian Wadleigh]], United States Department of State  
::*[[Viktor Vasilevish Sveshchnikov]], [[United States War Department]]
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:::*[[Harry Dexter White]], United States Department of Treasury
::*[[George Silverman]], Director of the Bureau of Research and Information Services, US Railroad Retirement Board; Economic Adviser and Chief of Analysis and Plans, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Material and Services, War Department
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::*[[Julian Wadleigh]], United States Department of State  
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::*[[Harry Dexter White]], United States Department of Treasury
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Revision as of 15:41, July 13, 2007

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

  • Solomon Adler, United States Department of the Treasury
  • Cedric Belfrage, journalist; British Security Coordination
  • 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
  • Rae Elson, an active Communist, and courier of the CPUSA underground, was chosen by Joseph Katz to replace Bentley at the Soviet front organization, U.S. Shipping and Service Corporation.
  • Frederick V. Field, Executive Secretary American Peace Mobilization
  • Edward Fitzgerald, War Production Board
  • Charles Flato, Board of Economic Warfare; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor
  • Eva Getzov, Jewish Welfare Board [5]
  • Bela Gold, Bureau of Intelligence, 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 Goldman, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
  • Gerald Graze, United States Civil Service Commission; Department of Defense, U.S. Navy official
  • Stanley Graze, United States Department of State intelligence
  • Michael Greenberg, Board of Economic Warfare; Administrative Division, Enemy Branch, Foreign Economic Administration; United States Department of State
  • Joseph Gregg, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United States Department of State
  • Maurice Halperin, Chief of Latin American Division, Research and Analysis section, Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
  • Julius Joseph, Far Eastern section (Japanese Intelligence) Office of Strategic Services
  • Irving Kaplan, United States Department of the Treasury Foreign Economic Administration; United Nations Division of Economic Stability and Development; Chief Advisor to the Military Government of Germany
  • 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
  • Duncan Lee, counsel to General William Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services
  • Bernice Levin, Office of Emergency Management; Office of Production Management
  • Helen Lowry, (Elza Akhmerova), Akhmerov wife, American-born and raised, Soviet citizen
  • Harry Magdoff, Chief of the Control Records Section 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; Statistics Division Works Progress Administration
  • Jenny Levy Miller, Chinese Government Purchasing Commission
  • Robert Miller, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Near Eastern Division United States Department of State
  • Willard Park, Assistant Chief of the Economic Analysis Section, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
  • Victor Perlo
  • Mary Price, stenographer for Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald
  • Bernard Redmont, head of the Foreign News Bureau Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
  • William Remington, War Production Board; Office of Emergency Management
  • 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
  • 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
  • John Spivak, New Masses
  • William Taylor, Assistant Director of Monetary Research, United States Department of Treasury
  • Helen Tenney, 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
  • 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


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 Fransisco 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

References

  • 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. [16]
  • Elizabeth Bentley deposition, 30 November 1945, FBI file 65-14603 [17]
  • 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]

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