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

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

[[KGB]]<br/>

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[[Perlo group]]

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'''Mary Wolfe Price''' was an [[American]] citizen and secretary to journalist [[Walter Lippmann]] of the ''New York Herald''.  Sometime prior to March of 1941 Mary Price agreed to furnish [[Jacob Golos]], controller of the secret apparatus of the [[CPUSA]] on behalf of the [[Soviet Union]], with all the information she could concerning the material Lippmann was writing and his contacts.  [[Elizabeth Bentley]] was made the courier between [[Washington, D.C.]] where Price worked and New York where she and Golos lived together.   

'''Mary Wolfe Price''' was an [[American]] citizen and secretary to journalist [[Walter Lippmann]] of the ''New York Herald''.  Sometime prior to March 1941 Mary Price agreed to furnish [[Jacob Golos]], controller of the secret apparatus of the [[CPUSA]] on behalf of the [[Soviet Union]], with all the information she could concerning the material Lippmann was writing and his contacts.  [[Elizabeth Bentley]] was made the courier between [[Washington, D.C.]] where Price worked and New York where she and Golos lived together.   

Price became a "cut out", or go-between government employees who were also members of the CPUSA secret apparatus.  Among them were [[Maurice Halperin]], [[Duncan Lee]], [[Helen Tenney]] of the [[OSS]] (Office of Strategic Services); [[Robert Miller]] the [[Department of State|U.S State Department]]; and [[Michael Greenberg]] an associate of presidential aide [[Lauchlin Currie]]. Lee was the personal assistant to OSS head General [[William J. Donovan]], the first intelligence chief in America's newly created wartime intelligence agency.  The material from Halperin was considered extremely valuable especially how it related to the [[Polish government in exile]].

Price became a "cut out", or go-between government employees who were also members of the CPUSA secret apparatus.  Among them were [[Maurice Halperin]], [[Duncan Lee]], [[Helen Tenney]] of the [[OSS]] (Office of Strategic Services); [[Robert Miller]] the [[Department of State|U.S State Department]]; and [[Michael Greenberg]] an associate of presidential aide [[Lauchlin Currie]]. Lee was the personal assistant to OSS head General [[William J. Donovan]], the first intelligence chief in America's newly created wartime intelligence agency.  The material from Halperin was considered extremely valuable especially how it related to the [[Polish government in exile]].

Elizabeth Bentley claimed Price was psychologically unfit for further clandestine work. Head of the Communist Party of the United States of America [[Earl Browder]] later released her from the NKGB.  Her code name used by Soviet intelligence and in the [[Venona project]] is "Arena"

Elizabeth Bentley claimed Price was psychologically unfit for further clandestine work. Head of the Communist Party of the United States of America [[Earl Browder]] later released her from the NKGB.  Her code name used by Soviet intelligence and in the [[Venona project]] is "Arena"

==Source==

==Sources==

*Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Harvey, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 0300084625

*Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Harvey, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'', Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 0300084625