| | He began his mission in 1934 with a magazine called ''China Today'', with a letter on its inside front cover signed ''Yours for a Soviet China'' by [[Malcolm Cowley]], then pro-Communist literary reviewer of the ''[[New Republic]]''. | | He began his mission in 1934 with a magazine called ''China Today'', with a letter on its inside front cover signed ''Yours for a Soviet China'' by [[Malcolm Cowley]], then pro-Communist literary reviewer of the ''[[New Republic]]''. |
| − | In 1937, Jaffe appeared prominently in a periodical publication called ''[[Amerasia]]''. It continued in existence until 1945, when Jaffe pled guilty to "conspiracy to embezzle, steal and purloin" government property in the ''Amerasia'' case,<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,812633-3,00.html The Strange Case of Amerasia]," ''Time'', Monday, June 12, 1950</ref> after being caught on [[FBI]] surveillance receiving confidential U.S. government documents from State Department official [[John Stewart Service]]. | + | In 1937, Jaffe appeared prominently in a periodical publication called ''[[Amerasia]]''. It continued in existence until 1945, when Jaffe pled guilty to "conspiracy to embezzle, steal and purloin" government property in the ''Amerasia'' case,<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,812633-3,00.html The Strange Case of Amerasia]," ''Time'', Monday, June 12, 1950</ref> after being caught on [[FBI]] surveillance receiving confidential U.S. government documents from State Department official [[John Stewart Service]]. On April 19, 1945, at D.C.'s Statler Hotel, "[[John Stewart Service|Service]], according to the microphone surveillance, apparently gave Jaffe a document which dealt with matters the Chinese had furnished to the United States government in confidence."<ref>Report of the United States Senate Subcommittee on the Investigation of Loyalty of State Department Employees, 1950, Vol. 2, appendix, p. 2051</ref> |
| − | According to FBI surveillance logs, on April 19, 1945, Jaffe met [[John Stewart Service|Service]] at D.C.'s Statler Hotel: "Service, according to the microphone surveillance, apparently gave Jaffe a document which dealt with matters the Chinese had furnished to the United States government in confidence."<ref>Report of the United States Senate Subcommittee on the Investigation of Loyalty of State Department Employees, 1950, Vol. 2, appendix, p. 2051</ref>
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