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'''Charles Kramer''', originally '''Charles Krevitsky''' was an economist for who worked for four congressional committees in his career as a Soviet spy.  Kramer worked for four congressional committees while being a member of the Washington D.C. based [[Perlo group]] of Soviet spies during the 1940's.

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[[Perlo group]]

Fellow members of the [[CPUSA]] underground assisted him in obtaining all his jobs.  [[John Abt]] hired him for the Senate Civil Liberties Subcommittee (the [[LaFollette Committee]]).  [[Nathan Witt]] helped him get a job within the [[Department of Labor]] [[National Labor Relations Board]] (NLRB) before [[World War II]].  [[Victor Perlo]] signed Kramer's job performance rating at the [[Office of Price Administration]] (OPA) during the war and was listed as a job reference.  Kramer took time off in 1944 to work for the [[Democratic National Committee]] and in 1946 to assist the reelection campaign of California Democratic representative [[Ellis Patterson]], who worked with the [[CPUSA]] since the 1930s. Kramer also worked for the [[United States Senate]] Subcommittee on War Mobilization (the Kilgore Committee[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000176]) and the Senate Subcommittee on on Wartime Health and Education during the war; and the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee after the war.

'''Charles Kramer''', originally '''Charles Krevitsky''' was an economist for who worked for four congressional committees in his career as a Soviet spy.  Kramer worked for four congressional committees while being a member of the Washington D.C. based [[Perlo group]] of Soviet spies during the 1940s.

Kramer provided information to the Soviets from his position as staff member of the Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization on a dispute among American [[policy makers]] concerning the [[Free French|Comité National Français]], or Free French National Committee of [[Charles de Gaulle]] and an internal U.S. government investigation of German corportate links to American companies. Kramer also passed information from the Democratic National Committee about [[President Truman]]'s likely appointments in the State Department and views of Truman by various Senators.

Fellow members of the [[CPUSA]] underground assisted him in obtaining all his jobs.  [[John Abt]] hired him for the Senate Civil Liberties Subcommittee (the [[LaFollette Committee]]).  [[Nathan Witt]] helped him get a job within the [[Department of Labor]] [[National Labor Relations Board]] (NLRB) before [[World War II]]. [[Victor Perlo]] signed Kramer's job performance rating at the [[Office of Price Administration]] (OPA) during the war and was listed as a job reference. Kramer took time off in 1944 to work for the [[Democratic National Committee]] and in 1946 to assist the reelection campaign of California Democratic representative [[Ellis Patterson]], who worked with the [[CPUSA]] since the 1930s.  Kramer also worked for the [[United States Senate]] Subcommittee on War Mobilization (the Kilgore Committee [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000176]) and the Senate Subcommittee on on Wartime Health and Education during the war; and the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee after the war.

===Venona===

 

==Venona==

Kramer is referred to in Soviet intelligence intercepts and the [[Venona]] files as "Plumb", "Lot" and "Mole".  Kramer is referenced in the following decrypts:

Kramer is referred to in Soviet intelligence intercepts and the [[Venona]] files as "Plumb", "Lot" and "Mole".  Kramer is referenced in the following decrypts:

*1163 KGB New York to Moscow, 15 August 1944

*1163 KGB New York to Moscow, 15 August 1944

"Mole"'s reporting and Kramer's contemporaneous activity concur in an extremely tight fashion, although [[NSA]] and [[FBI]] analysts list code name "Mole" as "unidentified".  "Mole" is used as a code name only after "Plumb", Kramer's previous identified cover name is no longer used in Venona transcripts.

"Mole"'s reporting and Kramer's contemporaneous activity concur in an extremely tight fashion, although [[NSA]] and [[FBI]] analysts list code name "Mole" as "unidentified".  "Mole" is used as a code name only after "Plumb", Kramer's previous identified cover name was no longer used in Venona transcripts.

*3612 KGB Washington to Moscow, 22 June 1945

*3612 KGB Washington to Moscow, 22 June 1945

*3710 KGB Washington to Moscow, 29 June 1945

*3710 KGB Washington to Moscow, 29 June 1945

=== Sources ===

==See also==

 

== Sources ==

*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America,'' Yale University Press

*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America,'' Yale University Press

 

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