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[[Ware group]]<br/>

[[Ware group]]<br/>

[[CPUSA#Secret_apparatus|Secret apparatus]]<br/>

[[CPUSA#Secret apparatus|Secret apparatus]]<br/>

[[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]]<br/>

[[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]]<br/>

[[LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee]]<br/>

[[LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee]]<br/>

==Perlo group==

==Perlo group==

In late 1943 [[Jacob Golos]], who headed the [[Communist Party of the United States]] [[CPUSA#Secret_apparatus|secret apparatus]], was referred to a group of CPUSA members by General Secretary of the party, [[Earl Browder]].  This group of government employees had been engaged for sometime in espionage for Browder, and held regular clandestine meetings at John Abt's apartment.  In early 1944, Golos sent [[Elizabeth Bentley]] to make contact with the group at Abt's apartment.  In attendance were Abt, [[Victor Perlo]], [[Charles Kramer]], [[Harry Magdoff]] and [[Edward Fitzgerald (Soviet spy)|Edward Fitzgerald]].  They discussed paying party dues to Bentley, the various types of information each would be able to deliver, and the type of information other members not in attendance would also be willing to deliver.

In late 1943 [[Jacob Golos]], who headed the [[Communist Party of the United States]] [[CPUSA#Secret apparatus|secret apparatus]], was referred to a group of CPUSA members by General Secretary of the party, [[Earl Browder]].  This group of government employees had been engaged for sometime in espionage for Browder, and held regular clandestine meetings at John Abt's apartment.  In early 1944, Golos sent [[Elizabeth Bentley]] to make contact with the group at Abt's apartment.  In attendance were Abt, [[Victor Perlo]], [[Charles Kramer]], [[Harry Magdoff]] and [[Edward Fitzgerald (Soviet spy)|Edward Fitzgerald]].  They discussed paying party dues to Bentley, the various types of information each would be able to deliver, and the type of information other members not in attendance would also be willing to deliver.

In late 1943 the FBI opened an investigation of Abt.  Its surveillance showed frequent meetings in the early months of 1944 between Abt and a man then known as Alexander Stevens, one of the several pseudonyms used by [[Josef Peters]], who at one time headed the CPUSA secret apparatus but was still involved in clandestine activities.   

In late 1943 the FBI opened an investigation of Abt.  Its surveillance showed frequent meetings in the early months of 1944 between Abt and a man then known as Alexander Stevens, one of the several pseudonyms used by [[Josef Peters]], who at one time headed the CPUSA secret apparatus but was still involved in clandestine activities.