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'''Josef Berger''', or '''Joseph Isadore Berger''' (May 12, 1903 - November 1971), was an [[United States|American]] journalist and [[Democratic National Committee]] speechwriter. Berger also worked for the KGB.  Berger was born in Denver, Colorado in 1903 and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1924. He worked as a reporter for the "Kansas City Star" for a time.
 
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In 1934, he settled with his wife and daughter in Provincetown, Massachusetts where he tried to make it as a freelance writer. Berger had a hard time earning money and for about year lived in near poverty until he found a job with the [[New Deal]] government sponsored  Federal Writer's Project.
 
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Berger, who wrote under the pen name '''Jeremiah Digges''', was an extraordinarily well-connected journalist employed by the [[United States Department of Justice]] in [[1942]] as a speech-writer for the Attorney-General, [[Francis Biddle]], and later also secretary to the chairman of the [[Democratic National Committee]] (DNC), Robert E. Hannegan. He also served as a U.S. delegate on the Reparations Commission.
 
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== Sources ==
 
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* [http://foia.fbi.gov/venona/venona.pdf FBI Venona Files]
 
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* John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)
 
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* Marcia and Thomas Mitchell, ''The Spy Who Seduced America: Lies and Betrayal in the Heat of the Cold War: The Judith Coplon Story'', (Invisible Cities Press LLC, 2002) ISBN 1931229228
 
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