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'''Irving Lerner''' was an American citizen and an emloyee of the United States [[Office of War Information]] during [[World War II]] who worked in the Motion Picture Division. Lerner was involved in [[espionage]] on behalf of Soviet Military Intelligence ([[GRU]]). [[Arthur Adams (spy)|Arthur Adams]] was Lerner's key contact.
In the winter of 1944], a counterintelligence officer caught Lerner attempting to photograph the [[cyclotron]] at the [[University of California at Berkeley]] Radiation Laboratory, which was part of the [[Manhattan Project]]. The cyclotron had been used in the creation of [[plutonium]] and Lerner was acting without authorization. Lerner resigned and went to work for [[Keynote Recordings]], owned by [[Eric Bernay]], another Soviet intelligence contact. Arthur Adams also worked at Keynote.
===Reference===
*FBI memo, “Soviet Activities in the United States,” 25 July 1946, Papers of Clark Clifford, Harry S. Truman Library.
* John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', Yale University Press (1999), pg. 325.
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| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | '''This article is part of the'''<br>'''[[Venona project|Venona]]'''<br>'''series.'''
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| style="text-align: center;"|[[Berkeley Radiation Laboratory]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|[[Manhattan Project]]
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'''Irving Lerner''' was an American citizen and an emloyee of the United States [[Office of War Information]] during [[World War II]] who worked in the Motion Picture Division. Lerner was involved in [[espionage]] on behalf of Soviet Military Intelligence ([[GRU]]). [[Arthur Adams (spy)|Arthur Adams]] was Lerner's key contact.
In the winter of 1944], a counterintelligence officer caught Lerner attempting to photograph the [[cyclotron]] at the [[University of California at Berkeley]] Radiation Laboratory, which was part of the [[Manhattan Project]]. The cyclotron had been used in the creation of [[plutonium]] and Lerner was acting without authorization. Lerner resigned and went to work for [[Keynote Recordings]], owned by [[Eric Bernay]], another Soviet intelligence contact. Arthur Adams also worked at Keynote.
===Reference===
*FBI memo, “Soviet Activities in the United States,” 25 July 1946, Papers of Clark Clifford, Harry S. Truman Library.
* John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', Yale University Press (1999), pg. 325.
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[[Category:Biographies]]
[[Category:History]]
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]