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'''Steve Nelson''' was a member of the National Committee of the [[Communist Party USA]] who had ties to [[USSR|Soviet]] intelligence.
'''Steve Nelson''' was a member of the National Committee of the [[Communist Party USA]] who had ties to [[USSR|Soviet]] intelligence.
Born '''Stjepan Mesaros''' in Čaglić, Croatia in 1903, he entered the [[United States]] on June 12, 1920 under an illegal and fraudulent passport under the false name of Joseph Fleischinger. He joined the [[Communist Party]] in 1925 and was granted United States citizenship in 1928.<ref>Daniel J. Leab, ''I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.: The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic'' (State College, Penn: Penn State Press, 2000) ISBN 0271020539, p. 83</ref>
Born '''Stjepan Mesaros''' in Čaglić, Croatia in 1903, he entered the [[United States]] on June 12, 1920 under an illegal and fraudulent passport under the false name of Joseph Fleischinger. He joined the [[Communist Party]] in 1925 and was granted United States citizenship in 1928.<ref>Daniel J. Leab, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=BoQPe_uOsUgC I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.: The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic]'' (State College, Penn: Penn State Press, 2000) ISBN 0271020539, p. 83</ref>
Nelson received special training at the [[Lenin School]] in [[Moscow]] in 1931, and in 1933 acted as an operative for the [[Communist International]] in [[Shanghai]], China. In 1936 and 1937, he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Communist-recruited [[International Brigades]] in Spain. Although active as a Communist Party organizer in California and Pennsylvania and as a member of the Communist Party National Committee, his most important assignment was [[atomic espionage]].
Nelson received special training at the [[Lenin School]] in [[Moscow]] in 1931, and in 1933 acted as an operative for the [[Communist International]] in [[Shanghai]], China. In 1936 and 1937, he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Communist-recruited [[International Brigades]] in Spain. Although active as a Communist Party organizer in California and Pennsylvania and as a member of the Communist Party National Committee, his most important assignment was [[atomic espionage]].