'''William Perl''', whose real name was '''William Mutterperl''', was a student at the City College of New York. As a member of the Steinmetz Club, the campus branch of the [[Young Communist League]], he met and befriended [[Julius Rosenberg]], [[Morton Sobell]] and [[Joel Barr]]. Perl graduated with a degree in engineering in 1939 and in 1940 began working for the [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics]] (NACA) at their [[Langley Air Force Base| | '''William Perl''', whose real name was '''William Mutterperl''', was a student at the City College of New York. As a member of the Steinmetz Club, the campus branch of the [[Young Communist League]], he met and befriended [[Julius Rosenberg]], [[Morton Sobell]] and [[Joel Barr]]. Perl graduated with a degree in engineering in 1939 and in 1940 began working for the [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics]] (NACA) at their [[Langley Air Force Base| |