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Socialist Workers Party
'''Sylvia Callen Franklin''', also known as '''Sylvia Lorraine Callen''', and '''Sylvia Caldwell''', was a young [[Chicago]] [[communist]] recruited by [[Louis Budenz]] into the [[Communist Party USA|CPUSA]] secret appartus about 1937.
'''Sylvia Callen Franklin''', also known as '''Sylvia Lorraine Callen''', and '''Sylvia Caldwell''', was a young [[Chicago]] [[communist]] recruited by [[Louis Budenz]] into the [[Communist Party USA|CPUSA]] secret appartus about 1937.
Callen was assigned by Dr. [[Gregory Rabinowitz]] to go to [[New York]] and infiltrate the [[Trotskyist]] [[Socialist Workers Party (United States)|Socialist Workers Party]] (SWP) using the pseudonym ''Sylvia Caldwell''. She became the secretary of [[James P. Cannon|James Cannon]], who headed the SWP. Callen later testified to a federal grand jury about her [[infiltration tactics|infiltration]] of the SWP and about how she provided information from the SWP offices to Rabinowitz. Rabinowitz was later replaced by [[Jack Soble]]. She had been married for a time to [[Zalmond Franklin]], who also served [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]]. For a time she was also known as '''Sylvia Lorraine Doxsee'''.
Callen was assigned by Dr. [[Gregory Rabinowitz]] to go to [[New York]] and infiltrate the [[Trotskyist]] [[Socialist Workers Party]] (SWP) using the pseudonym ''Sylvia Caldwell''. She became the secretary of [[James P. Cannon|James Cannon]], who headed the SWP. Callen later testified to a federal grand jury about her [[infiltration tactics|infiltration]] of the SWP and about how she provided information from the SWP offices to Rabinowitz. Rabinowitz was later replaced by [[Jack Soble]]. She had been married for a time to [[Zalmond Franklin]], who also served [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]]. For a time she was also known as '''Sylvia Lorraine Doxsee'''.
Callen is identified in [[Venona]] traffic under the cover name SATYR. Venona messages reveal Callen giving copies to the KGB of SWP correspondence, intimate information on [[Leon Trotsky]]'s widow, [[Natalia Sedova]], and financial reports of Trotskyist groups.
Callen is identified in [[Venona]] traffic under the cover name SATYR. Venona messages reveal Callen giving copies to the KGB of SWP correspondence, intimate information on [[Leon Trotsky]]'s widow, [[Natalia Sedova]], and financial reports of Trotskyist groups.