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<div style="background: #ccf; font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 1px 3px;">This article is part of the<br/>[[Venona project|Venona]]<br/>series.</div>
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[[CPUSA#Secret_apparatus|Secret apparatus]]<br/>
[[CPUSA#Secret apparatus|Secret apparatus]]<br/>
[[LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee]]<br/>
[[LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee]]<br/>
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'''Clarence Francis Hiskey''' (1912-1998), born '''Clarence Szczechowski''', became active in the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) when he attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. He became a professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Columbia University and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. For a time Hiskey worked at the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]] and the University of Chicago [[Metallurgical Laboratory]], part of the [[Manhattan Project]]. Hiskey's wife may have been involved in [[espionage]] also.
'''Clarence Francis Hiskey''' (1912-1998), born '''Clarence Szczechowski''', became active in the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) when he attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. He became a professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Columbia University and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. For a time Hiskey worked at the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]] and the University of Chicago [[Metallurgical Laboratory]], part of the [[Manhattan Project]]. Hiskey's wife may have been involved in [[espionage]] also.
==Met Lab==
Hiskey joined the Chicago Met Lab in September of 1943. A May 1944 New York KGB to Moscow [[Venona project]] decryption of Soviet intelligence traffic reported that [[Bernard Schuster]] of the CPUSA secret apparatus, which had been working with Soviet intelligence, had been to Chicago on the KGB's instructions. The message recorded Schuster's description of those he had come in contact with, which included [[Rose Olsen]], and stated Olsen had been meeting with Hiskey on the instructions of the organization. In July it appears [[Joseph Katz]] had been assigned to the Hiskey case.
Hiskey joined the Chicago Met Lab in September 1943. A May 1944 New York KGB to Moscow [[Venona project]] decryption of Soviet intelligence traffic reported that [[Bernard Schuster]] of the CPUSA secret apparatus, which had been working with Soviet intelligence, had been to Chicago on the KGB's instructions. The message recorded Schuster's description of those he had come in contact with, which included [[Rose Olsen]], and stated Olsen had been meeting with Hiskey on the instructions of the organization. In July it appears [[Joseph Katz]] had been assigned to the Hiskey case.
On 28 April 1944, Army counter-intelligence (G-2) observed Clarence Hiskey meet with Soviet Military Intelligence ([[GRU]]) Illegal Officer [[Arthur Adams]]. The government then neutralized Hiskey from the Manhattan Project by drafting him into the Army, and stationing him in Alaska for the duration of the conflict. While en route counterintelligence officers secretly searched Hiskey's luggage and found seven pages of classified notes taken from the Chicago Metallurgical Lab. When the officers subsequently performed a follow up search, the notes were no longer with Hiskey.
On 28 April 1944, Army counter-intelligence (G-2) observed Clarence Hiskey meet with Soviet Military Intelligence ([[GRU]]) Illegal Officer [[Arthur Adams]]. The government then neutralized Hiskey from the Manhattan Project by drafting him into the Army, and stationing him in Alaska for the duration of the conflict. While en route counterintelligence officers secretly searched Hiskey's luggage and found seven pages of classified notes taken from the Chicago Metallurgical Lab. When the officers subsequently performed a follow up search, the notes were no longer with Hiskey.
==Investigations==
In 1948, the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC) established that Hiskey was an active member of the CPUSA and attempted to recruit other scientists to pass secret atomic data to Soviet intelligence. Congressional investigators concluded,
In 1948, the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC) established that Hiskey was an active member of the CPUSA and attempted to recruit other scientists to pass secret atomic data to Soviet intelligence. Congressional investigators concluded,
In testimony before HUAC and [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]], Hiskey repeatedly refused to answer questions about his Communist associations and espionage, and in 1950 he was cited for [[contempt of Congress]]. Hiskey resigned his position as asscociate professor of analytical chemistry on the faculty of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and joined the International Biotechnical Corporation, later becoming director of analytical research for Endo Laboratories.
In testimony before HUAC and [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]], Hiskey repeatedly refused to answer questions about his Communist associations and espionage, and in 1950 he was cited for [[contempt of Congress]]. Hiskey resigned his position as asscociate professor of analytical chemistry on the faculty of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and joined the International Biotechnical Corporation, later becoming director of analytical research for Endo Laboratories.
==McCarthy==
In june of 1953 Hiskey was subpoened to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. In a closed door session Hiskey came face to face with Sen. [[Joseph McCarthy]].
In june of 1953 Hiskey was subpoened to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. In a closed door session Hiskey came face to face with Sen. [[Joseph McCarthy]].
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, KGB Archives were made accessible to historian [[Allen Weinstein]] and a former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev. The identification of Hiskey as a Soviet agent cover named RAMSAY which occurs in the [[Venona]] papers, corroborated Hiskey's covert relationship with Soviet intelligence.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, KGB Archives were made accessible to historian [[Allen Weinstein]] and a former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev. The identification of Hiskey as a Soviet agent cover named RAMSAY which occurs in the [[Venona]] papers, corroborated Hiskey's covert relationship with Soviet intelligence.
==References==
*US House of Representatives, 80st Congress, Special Session, Committee on Un-American Activities, Report on Soviet Espionage Activities in Connection with the Atom Bomb, September 28, 1948 (US Gov. Printing Office).
*US House of Representatives, 80st Congress, Special Session, Committee on Un-American Activities, Report on Soviet Espionage Activities in Connection with the Atom Bomb, September 28, 1948 (US Gov. Printing Office).
*Katherine A S Sibley, ''Red spies in America : stolen secrets and the dawn of the Cold War'', University Press of Kansas, 2004. ISBN 070061351X
*Katherine A S Sibley, ''Red spies in America : stolen secrets and the dawn of the Cold War'', University Press of Kansas, 2004. ISBN 070061351X
==External links==
*Loren C. Hurd and Clarence F. Hiskey, [http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/ac50127a002 ''The determination of Rhenium''], Ind. Eng. Chem. Anal. Ed.; 1938.
*Loren C. Hurd and Clarence F. Hiskey, [http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/ac50127a002 ''The determination of Rhenium''], Ind. Eng. Chem. Anal. Ed.; 1938.
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[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]