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'''Josef Peters''' or '''Joseph Peters''' also '''Joszef Peter''', more commonly known as '''J. Peters''', best known for his work for the [[NKVD]]'s ''Inostrannyi Otdel'' (special operations) section and the ''secret apparatus'' of the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) underground in the 1930s and '40s.  Among his other aliases were '''Alexander Goldfarb''', '''Isador Boorstein''', '''Alexander Stevens''', and '''Sandor Goldberger'''.   

'''Josef Peters''', '''Joseph Peters''', or'''Joszef Peter''' (more commonly known as '''J. Peters'''), is best known for his work for the [[NKVD]]'s ''Inostrannyi Otdel'' (special operations) section and the ''secret apparatus'' of the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) underground in the 1930s and '40s.  Among his other aliases were '''Alexander Goldfarb''', '''Isador Boorstein''', '''Alexander Stevens''', and '''Sandor Goldberger'''.   

==Background==

==Background==

Peters was born in the [[Austro-Hungarian]] Empire and was a petty officer in the Austrian Army in World War I.  After the [[Béla Kun]] revolution in Hungary, he joined the the Communist Party and was a member of the short-lived ''Bela Kun'' [[Hungarian Soviet Republic]] government that seized power in Hungary in 1919.  Peters emigrated to the United States in 1924 and became an organizer for the [[CPUSA]], later serving as a CPUSA official in its Hungarian ethnic section.  He was a delegate to the Sixth Congress of the [[Comintern]] in Moscow in the late 1920's and was appointed head of the party's National Minorities Department in 1929.   

Peters was born in the [[Austro-Hungarian]] Empire and was a petty officer in the Austrian Army in World War I.  After the [[Béla Kun]] revolution in Hungary, he joined the Communist Party and was a member of the short-lived ''Bela Kun'' [[Hungarian Soviet Republic]] government that seized power in Hungary in 1919.  Peters emigrated to the United States in 1924 and became an organizer for the [[CPUSA]], later serving as a CPUSA official in its Hungarian ethnic section.  He was a delegate to the Sixth Congress of the [[Comintern]] in Moscow in the late 1920's and was appointed head of the party's National Minorities Department in 1929.   

==Secret Apparatus==

==Secret Apparatus==