Chronology and structure of Comintern, Communist Party USA, and Soviet espionage networks in the United States. The CPUSA's secret apparatus operated a very large and successful organization in the United States from about 1921 to about 1948.
Contents
KGB[edit]
Ware group[edit]
- Marion Bachrach
- Henry Collins, National Recovery Administration; Department of Agriculture
- John Herrmann
- Alger Hiss
- Donald Hiss
- Charles Kramer
- Victor Perlo
- Lee Pressman
- George Silverman
- Nathaniel Weyl
- Nathan Witt
- Harry Dexter White
NY Rezidentura[edit]
- Vladimir Pravdin NY Rezident
- Olga Pravdina [1] (wife), Ministry of Trade
- Gaik Ovakimian (1933 - 1941) NY Rezident
- Pavel Pastelnyak (1938 - ) NY Rezident (1941)
- Anatoly Yatskov (1940 - 1946)
- Alexandre Feklisov (1940 - 1946)
- Vasily Zubilin (October 1941 - 1944) NY Rezident
- Elizabeth Zubilin (1941 - 1944)
- Vassili D. Mironov Markov
- Semyon Semenov (1938 - 1944) NY X-line
- Morris Cohen (1938 - 1950)
- Lona Cohen (1941 - 1950)
- Leonid Kvasnikov (1943 - 1945) NY Deputy X-line
- Constantin A. Chugunov NY [2]
- Mikhail Shalyapin (Mikhail A. Shaliapin)
- Andrey Shevchenko, KGB agent operating as an inspector at Bell Aircraft Niagra Falls
- Grigory Heifetz, (1932)
- Victor Alexandrovich Lyagin, Amtorg (1939 -1941)
- Sergey Lukianov, Soviet Government Purchasing Commission, Zarubin's assistant for naval intelligence;
- Harry Rabinovich (Gregory Rabinovich) (Gregory Rabinowitz) ( - d.1938)
- Andrey Ivanovich Raina X-line 1942-1946
- Stepan Nikolaevich Shudenko [3]
- Jacob Golos (1921 - 27 November 1943)
- Elizabeth Bentley (4 December 1943 - August 1945)
Sound and Myrna groups[edit]
- Solomon Adler, United States Department of the Treasury
- Cedric Belfrage, journalist; British Security Coordination
- Frank Coe, Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, Treasury Department; Special Assistant to the United States Ambassador in London; Assistant to the Executive Director, Board of Economic Warfare; Assistant Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration
- Lauchlin Currie, Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt; Deputy Administrator of Foreign Economic Administration; Special Representative to China
- Rae Elson, an active Communist, and courier of the CPUSA underground, was chosen by Joseph Katz to replace Bentley at the Soviet front organization, U.S. Shipping and Service Corporation.
- Frederick V. Field, Executive Secretary American Peace Mobilization
- Edward Fitzgerald, War Production Board
- Charles Flato, Board of Economic Warfare; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor
- Eva Getzov, Jewish Welfare Board [4]
- Bela Gold, Bureau of Intelligence, Assistant Head of Program Surveys, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Agriculture Department; Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Economic Programs in Foreign Economic Administration
- Sonia Steinman Gold, Division of Monetary Research U.S. Treasury Department; U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Interstate Migration; U.S. Bureau of Employment Security
- Irving Goldman, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
- Gerald Graze, United States Civil Service Commission; Department of Defense, U.S. Navy official
- Stanley Graze, United States Department of State intelligence
- Michael Greenberg, Board of Economic Warfare; Administrative Division, Enemy Branch, Foreign Economic Administration; United States Department of State
- Joseph Gregg, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United States Department of State
- Maurice Halperin, Chief of Latin American Division, Research and Analysis section, Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
- Julius Joseph, Far Eastern section (Japanese Intelligence) Office of Strategic Services
- Irving Kaplan, United States Department of the Treasury Foreign Economic Administration; United Nations Division of Economic Stability and Development; Chief Advisor to the Military Government of Germany
- Joseph Katz
- Charles Kramer, Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Price Administration; National Labor Relations Board; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; Democratic National Committee
- Duncan Lee, counsel to General William Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services
- Bernice Levin, Office of Emergency Management; Office of Production Management
- Helen Lowry, (Elza Akhmerova), Akhmerov wife, American-born and raised, Soviet citizen
- Harry Magdoff, Chief of the Control Records Section of War Production Board and Office of Emergency Management; Bureau of Research and Statistics, WTB; Tools Division, War Production Board; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce; Statistics Division Works Progress Administration
- Jenny Levy Miller, Chinese Government Purchasing Commission
- Robert Miller, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Near Eastern Division United States Department of State
- Willard Park, Assistant Chief of the Economic Analysis Section, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- Victor Perlo
- Mary Price, stenographer for Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald
- Bernard Redmont, head of the Foreign News Bureau Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
- William Remington, War Production Board; Office of Emergency Management
- Ruth Rivkin, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- Allan Rosenberg, Board of Economic Warfare; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Railroad Retirement Board; Councel to the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board
- Bernard Schuster
- Greg Silvermaster, Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division, United States Department of the Treasury; Chief Economist, War Assets Administration; Director of the Labor Division, Farm Security Administration; Board of Economic Warfare; Reconstruction Finance Corporation Department of
- John Spivak, New Masses
- William Taylor, Assistant Director of Monetary Research, United States Department of Treasury
- Helen Tenney, Office of Strategic Services
- Lee Tenney, Balkan Division Office of Strategic Services
- Lud Ullman, delegate to United Nations Charter meeting and Bretton Woods Conference; Division of Monetary Research, Department of Treasury; Material and Services Division, Air Corps Headquarters, Pentagon
- David Weintraub, United States Department of State; head of the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA); United Nations Division of Economic Stability and Development
- Donald Wheeler, Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis division
Silvermaster group[edit]
- Anatole Volkov, son of Helen Silvermaster
- Solomon Adler, United States Department of the Treasury
- Norman Chandler Bursler, United States Department of Justice Anti-Trust Division
- Frank Coe, Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, Treasury Department; Special Assistant to the United States Ambassador in London; Assistant to the Executive Director, Board of Economic Warfare; Assistant Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration
- Lauchlin Currie, Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt; Deputy Administrator of Foreign Economic Administration; Special Representative to China
- Bela Gold, Assistant Head of Program Surveys, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Agriculture Department; Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Economic Programs in Foreign Economic Administration
- Sonia Steinman Gold, Division of Monetary Research U.S. Treasury Department; U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Interstate Migration; U.S. Bureau of Employment Security
- Irving Kaplan, Foreign Funds Control and Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury Foreign Economic Administration; chief advisor to the Military Government of Germany
- George Silverman, civilian Chief Production Specialist, Material Division, Army Air Force Air Staff, War Department, Pentagon
- William Henry Taylor, Assistant Director of the Middle East Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of Treasury
- Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Head of the International Monetary Fund
Perlo group[edit]
- Victor Perlo (5 March 1944 - )
- Charles Kramer, Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Price Administration; National Labor Relations Board; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; Democratic National Committee
- Edward Fitzgerald, War Production Board
- Harry Magdoff, Statistical Division of War Production Board and Office of Emergency Management; Bureau of Research and Statistics, WTB; Tools Division, War Production Board; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce
- Harold Glasser, Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; War Production Board; Advisor on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy
- Alger Hiss, Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs United States Department of State
- Sol Leshinsky, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- George Perazich, Foreign Economic Administration; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- Allen Rosenberg, Board of Economic Warfare; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties; Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Railroad Retirement Board; Councel to the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board
- Donald Wheeler, Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis division
The “Berg” – “Art” Group[edit]
- Alexander Koral (1939 - 1945), former engineer of the municipality of New York.
- Helen Koral (1939 - 1945), Berg’s wife, housewife.
- Richard Koral, son, student.
- Norman Hite, engineer for the firm “Sperry Gyroscope Company” in New Jersey.
- Elliot Goldberg, engineer for an oil equipment company in New York.
- Byron T. Darling, engineer for the Rubber Company. [5]
- Emma Phillips, housewife.
- Sylvia Koral, former secretary of the code section, Office of War Information.
- Eduardo Pekino, businessman in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Richard Setaro, journalist/writer, former employee of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBC), in Buenos Aires.
- A. Slavianin
- S. M Semenov [Semyonov], rezident, technical intelligence for the KI in Paris
- A.A. Yatskov
- O. V. Shimmel
- K. A. Chugunov
- Louis Adamic, writer and spokesman for Yugoslav immigrants. During World War II, advised the OSS on Balkan questions. Source for Golos-Bentley network via Louis Budenz
- Otto Alleman, Du Pont chemist.
Atlschuler group[edit]
Buben group[edit]
- Louis Budenz, (1935 - 1945) former member of the Central Committee of the CPUSA, former editor of the newspaper Daily Worker, professor at Fordham Catholic University.
- Robert Menaker, commercial traveler [traveling salesman] to a variety of trade firms.
- Frank Palmer, Place of employment unknown. Former member of the CPUSA, broke with the Communist Party in 1937. “Buben” was recruited with his assistance.
- Salmond Franklin, without specific assignments, husband of “Rita.” Used as a “signaller” [Russian: sviazist = communications man].
- Sylvia Caldwell, technical secretary for a Trotskyite group in New York.
- Harry Rabinovich (Gregory Rabinovich)
CPUSA/OSS[edit]
- Eugene Dennis, senior member of the CPUSA leadership
- Carl Marzani, Deputy Chief Photographic Presentation Branch Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
OSS[edit]
- Horst Baerensprung, OSS consultant on Germany
- Jane Foster, OSS Far Eastern and Indonesian section
- Maurice Halperin, chief of the Latin American Division of OSS Research and Analysis
- Hans Hirschfeld, OSS consultant on Germany
- Bella Joseph, motion picture section of OSS
- Julius Joseph, OSS Far Eastern section
- Duncan Lee, counsel to General Donovan and the OSS's Japanese intelligence section
- Julia Older, Office of Strategic Services; Office of War Infornation
- Helen Tenney, OSS Spanish section
- Donald Wheeler, OSS Research and Analysis
- Thomas Babin, OSS section working with Yugoslav resistance
- Philip Keeney, OSS librarian
- Leonard Mins, Russian section of OSS Research and Analysis
- Franz Leopold Neumann
- Linn Farish
- John Scott
- George Vuchinich, OSS
- Koji Ariyoshi
- Max Bedacht
- Valentine (William G.) Burtan
- Haakon Chevalier
- Gerhard Eisler
- Mark Gayn, journalist, The Washington Post; Amerasia case [6]
- Ben-Zion Goldberg (Benjamin Waife), journalist, contributor to Toronto Star, Saint Louis Dispatch, New York Post, Today, and New Republic [7]
- Grace Granich, [8]
- Theodore Hall, physicist who supplied information from Los Alamos during WWII, a NYC walk-in
- Armand Hammer
- Ferdinand Heller
- Lester Huettig, Remington Arms
- Philip Jaffe
- V. J. Jerome
- Leon Josephson
- Albert Kahn
- Vladimir Kazakevich, instructor at a wartime U.S. Army school
- Tyler Kent, U.S. Army code clerk
- Maurice Kowan, MD
- Avram Landy
- Emmanuel Larsen, United States Department of State
- Philip Levy
- Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory
- Jay Lovestone
- James Lewis Marcus
- Alan Nunn May, physicist who supplied information about the British and American atomic bomb research to the Soviet Union
- Bruce Minton, editor of the New Masses
- Kate Mitchell
Mocase[edit]
- Myra Soble
- Jacob Albam
- Boris Morros
- Alfred Stern
- George Zlatovski (George Zlatkowski), United States Army intelligence officer [9]
- Jane Zlatovski
- Will Morgan
- Miriam Moskowitz
- Steve Nelson
- Joe North, editor of the New Masses
- Alexander Orlov KGB advisor to the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War who defected to the United States in 1938. [10]
- Mildred Price, sister of Mary Price, leader of China Aid Council
Rosenberg ring[edit]
- Ethel Rosenberg
- Joel Barr, United States Army Signal Corps laboratories
- Abraham Brothman
- Max Elitcher
- Klaus Fuchs, physicist who supplied information about the British and American atomic bomb research to the Soviet Union
- Vivian Glassman
- Harry Gold
- David Greenglass
- Ruth Greenglass
- William Perl
- Morton Sobell
- Al Sarant, United States Army Signal Corps laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey during WWII
- Michel Sidorovrich
- Anne Sidorovrich
- Simon Rosenberg
- Andrew Roth, Office of Naval Intelligence liaison officer with United States Department of State [11]
- Hafis Salich, Office of Naval Intelligence
- Saville Sax college friend of Theodore Hall assisted with Hall's disclosure to the Soviets of Los Alamos research and development
- Helen Levi Simon, columnist for the Daily Worker
- Alfred Slack
- Ruby Weil
- Abraham Weinstein
- Bill Weisband, United States Army Signals Security Agency
DC Rezidentura[edit]
- Konstantin Mihajlovich Kukin (1937 -1940)
- Vasily Zubilin ( - 1944) DC Rezident
- Stepan Apresyan (1944 - ) DC Rezident
- Anatoly Gromov (1944 -1947) DC Rezident
- Grigory G. Dolbin (1946 - ) DC Rezident
- Vasily Dolgov, DC
- Vasily Mironov, DC
SF Rezidentura[edit]
- Grigory Kheifets, SF Rezident
- Mikhail Gorin, head of the Los Angeles Intourist office 1939
- Louise Bransten
- Martin Kamen, Radiation Laboratory at the University of California Berkeley, Manhattan Project
- Joseph W. Weinberg, Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley
Ottawa Rezidentura[edit]
- Vladimir Pavlov, (Vitaly Pavlov) Canada (1939 - 1942)
Mexico City Rezidentura[edit]
- Lev Vasilevsky (Leon Tarasov) Mexico City Illegal Rezident [12]
South America[edit]
- Joseph Romualdovich Grigulevich, Illegal Rezident
KGB Illegal Rezidentura[edit]
- Valentin Markin Illegal NY Rezident ( - August 1934?)
- Boris Bazarov Illegal NY Rezident (1934 - ) [13]
- Yevgeny Petrovich Mitskevich Illegal Rezident (1937)
- Iskhak Akhmerov Illegal NY Rezident (1942 - 1945)
- Michael Straight (1935 - ), speechwriter for President Franklin Roosevelt; United States Department of the Interior; United States Department of State
Redhead group[edit]
- Boris Bazarov
- Hede Massing, (c.1925 - 1948)
- Paul Massing, scientist at Columbia University’s Institute of Social Research. Defected
- Oscar Bernstein, lawyer, used for organizing covers for our workers in the U.S
- Laurence Duggan (aka 19th), former employee of the State Department. Suicide.
- Gerta Frankfurter
- Franz Leopold Neumann, former consultant in the Department of Research and Analysis of the OSS
- E. Y. Zarubina
- Peter Gutzeit Officer
GRU[edit]
- Yotoku Miyagi
- Juliet Poyntz ( - 1938)
- Arthur Gerald Steinberg, United States Office of Scientific Research and Development; worked for a Canadian GRU network
- Arnold Ikal ( - 1937) (Donald L. Robinson), (Adolph A. Rubens)
GRU Rezidentura[edit]
- Boris Nikolayevich Rodin (1939 -1945)
- Pavel Melkishev (Pavel Mikhailov) (1941 – 1945) NY Rezident [14]
GRU San Francisco Rezidentura[edit]
- Theodore Bayer
- Robinson Bobrow
- Nicholas Dozenberg
- George Charles Eltenton, chemist with Shell Oil in California, Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians
- Albert Feierabend
- Felix Inslerman
- Arvid Jacobson
- William Kruse
- Leonard Mins, Russian Section of the Research and Analysis Division of the Office of Strategic Services
- Robert Osman, U.S. Army
- Simon Rosenberg
- Milton Schwartz
- William Spiegel
- Joseph Stenbuck
- Irving Charles Velson, Brooklyn Navy Yard; American Labor Party candidate for New York State Senate
- Daniel Zaret, United States Army Explosives Division
GRU Illegals[edit]
- Moishe Stern, Officer
- Alfred Tilton, Officer
- Ignacy Witczak, Officer
- Aleksandr Ulanovsky Illegal Rezident (August 1934 - 1936)
- Nadezhda Ulanovsky wife, Officer ( - 1936)
- Boris Bykov (Boris Yakovlevich Bukov), Illegal Rezident (1936 - 1939)
- Arthur Adams (1938 -1945) Officer
- Eric Bernay, head of Keynote Recording Company
- John Hitchcock Chapin, Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory
- Julius Heiman
- Clarence Hiskey, Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory
- Victoria Singer Stone
- Arthur Adams (1938 -1945) Officer
Karl group[edit]
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- Whittaker Chambers (1932 - 1938)
- Harry Azizov
- David Carpenter (David Zimmerman)
- Noel Field, United States Department of State
- Harold Glasser, Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; War Production Board; Advisor on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy
- Alger Hiss, United States Department of State
- Donald Hiss, United States Department of State; United States Department of Labor; United States Department of the Interior
- Lester Hubsch, Frankford Arsenal
- Felix Inslerman
- Charles Kramer, Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Price Administration; National Labor Relations Board; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Senate Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
- Peter MacLean, reporter and photojournalist
- Victor Perlo
- Ward Pigman, National Bureau of Standards; Labor and Public Welfare Committee
- Lee Pressman, Department of Agriculture; Works Progress Administration; General Counsel Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
- Vincent Reno, mathematician at United States Army Aberdeen Proving Ground
- Harry Rosenthal
- Viktor Vasilevish Sveshchnikov, United States War Department
- George Silverman, Director of the Bureau of Research and Information Services, US Railroad Retirement Board; Economic Adviser and Chief of Analysis and Plans, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Material and Services, War Department
- Julian Wadleigh, United States Department of State
- Harry Dexter White, United States Department of Treasury
- Leonard Cohen, attorney United States Department of the Interior
- Willaim Crane (1932 - 1937), reporter, Wall Street Journal
- Grace Hutchins
- Maxim Lieber, literary agent
- Irving Lerner, Motion Picture Division, Office of War Information
- Sam Novick, head of Electronics Corporation of America
- John Loomis Sherman
- Lydia Stahl
- Robert Gordon Switz ([15][16]?)
- Joshua Tamer
[edit]
- Eugene Franklin Coleman, RCA electrical engineer
- Jack Fahy (Naval GRU), Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Board of Economic Warfare; United States Department of the Interior
- Edna Patterson Naval GRU, served in US August 1943 to 1956
Lines[edit]
I-line[edit]
- informational line
P-line[edit]
- political line
X-line[edit]
- atomic or scientific-technical line
- Semyon Semenov (1938 - 1944) NY
- Leonid Kvasnikov (1943 - 1945) NY
- Anatoli Yatskov (1941 - )
- Harry Azizov
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Underground Soviet Espionage (NKVD) in Agencies of the United States Government, FBI Silvermaster file, Vol. 82, pg. 327 pdf, October 21, 1946.
- National Security Agency Archives Cryptographic Museum, Custodian of Documents for the Army Signals Intelligence Agency.
- KGB Archives, Gorsky Memo: Translation of KGB file 43173 vol. 2 (v) pp. 46–55. [17]
- Elizabeth Bentley deposition, 30 November 1945, FBI file 65-14603 (pgs. 2 - 108, pdf).
- Hoover to Frederick B. Lyon, 24 September 1945, Central Intelligence Agency, Igor Gouzenko file. [18]
- Anonymous letter to Hoover, undated [received 7 August 1943], National Security Agency Venona Collection, 54-001, box D046 [Russian original with English translation]. [19]
- "Underground Espionage Agent", Adolf Berle's Notes on his Meeting with Whittaker Chambers, Sept. 2, 1939. [20]
- FBI Headquarters File 100-63, Louis Francis Budenz, Internal Security—C, Serial 122. [21]
External links[edit]
- SVR, History of personal (In Russian).
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