Leon Josephson

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Leon Josephson was an American attorney and longtime Communist who allegedly aided the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) in their false-passport operation on behalf of Soviet intellignece in the 1930s. Josephson represented the Café Society as a business attorney.

References

  • Elizabeth Bentley deposition 30 November 1945, FBI file 65-14603.
  • John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 375, 469.
  • FBI file HQ-1000048754; HQ-0610008648


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