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While a student at Cambridge University in the mid-1930s, Straight became a [[Communist]] Party member and a part of an intellectual secret society known as the [[Cambridge Apostles]]. Straight worked for the [[Soviet Union]], as part of a [[espionage|spy ring]] whose members included [[Donald Duart Maclean|Donald Maclean]], [[Guy Burgess]], [[Kim Philby]], and KGB recruiter [[Anthony Blunt]]. A document from Soviet archives of a report Blunt made in 1943 to the KGB states, " As you already know the actual recruits whom I took were Michael Straight". <ref> Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, ''The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives'' (London: HarperCollins, 1998; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pg., 130.</ref>

While a student at Cambridge University in the mid-1930s, Straight became a [[Communist]] Party member and a part of an intellectual secret society known as the [[Cambridge Apostles]]. Straight worked for the [[Soviet Union]], as part of a [[espionage|spy ring]] whose members included [[Donald Duart Maclean|Donald Maclean]], [[Guy Burgess]], [[Kim Philby]], and KGB recruiter [[Anthony Blunt]]. A document from Soviet archives of a report Blunt made in 1943 to the KGB states, " As you already know the actual recruits whom I took were Michael Straight". <ref> Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, ''The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives'' (London: HarperCollins, 1998; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pg., 130.</ref>

After returning to the United States in 1937, Straight worked as a speechwriter for President [[Franklin Roosevelt]], and was on the payroll of the Department of the Interior. Beginning in 1938 Straight carried on a covert relationship with [[Iskhak Akhmerov]], the KGB ''Illegal Rezident'', or head of KGB Illegal operations. In 1940 Straight went to work in the Eastern Division of the [[U.S. State Department]].

After returning to the United States in 1937, Straight worked as a speechwriter for President [[Franklin Roosevelt]], and was on the payroll of the Department of the Interior. Beginning in 1938 Straight carried on a covert relationship with [[Iskhak Akhmerov]], the KGB ''Illegal [[Rezident]]'', or head of KGB Illegal operations. In 1940 Straight went to work in the Eastern Division of the [[U.S. State Department]].

He served stateside in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] beginning in 1942, and at war's end took over as publisher of his family-owned ''[[The New Republic]]'' magazine where he hired former [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. Vice President]] and future Presidential candidate [[Henry A. Wallace]] as the magazine's editor. Straight left the ''The New Republic'' in 1956 and began writing novels.  

He served stateside in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] beginning in 1942, and at war's end took over as publisher of his family-owned ''[[The New Republic]]'' magazine where he hired former [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. Vice President]] and future Presidential candidate [[Henry A. Wallace]] as the magazine's editor. Straight left the ''The New Republic'' in 1956 and began writing novels.