By John Beaty First Printing, December, 1951 Eleventh Printing April 1954 To the mighty company of American soldiers, sailors, airmen

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 Since The Iron Curtain Over America developed out of many years of study, travel, and intelligence service, followed by a more recent period of intensive research and consultation with experts, the author is indebted in one way or another to hundreds of people.

 First of all, there is a lasting obligation to his former teachers -- particularly his tutors, instructors, and university professors of languages. The more exacting, and therefore the most gratefully remembered, are Sallie Jones, Leonidas R. Dingus, Oliver Holben, James S. McLemore, Thomas Fitz-Hugh, Richard Henry Wilson, C. Alphonso Smith, William Witherle Lawrence, George Philip Krapp, C. Pujadas, Joseph Delcourt, and Mauricae Grammont.   Some of these teachers required a knowledge of the history, the resources, the culture, and the ideals of the peoples whose language they were imparting. Their memories are green.

 In the second place, the author is deeply obligated to M. Albert Kahn and to the six trustees of the American Albert Kahn Foundation -- Edward Dean Adams, Nicholas Murray Butler, Charles D. Walcott, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Henry Smith Pritchett -- who chose him as their representative abroad for 1926-27. Without the accolade of these men, and the help of their distinguished Secretary, Dr. Frank D. Fackenthal, The author might not have found the way, a quarter of century later, to The Iron Curtain Over America.

 In the third instance, the author owes, of course, a very great debt to the many men and women who were his fellow workers in the extensive field of strategic intelligence, intelligence, and to those persons who came to his office for interview from all parts of the world. This obligation is not, however, for specific details, but for a general background of knowledge which became a guide to subsequent study.

 To friends and helpers in several other categories, the author expresses here his deep obligation. A score or more of senators and congressmen gave him information, furthered his research, sent him needed government documents or photostats when originals were not available, introduced him to valuable contacts and otherwise rendered very important assistance, Certain friends who are university professors, eminent lawyers, and political analysts, have read and criticized constructively all or a part of the manuscript. The staffs of a number of libraries have helped, but the author has leant most heavily upon the Library of Congress, the Library of the University of Virginia, and above all the Library of Southern Methodist University, where assistance was always willing, speedy, and competent.

 Finally, four secretaries have been most patient and accurate in copying and recopying thousands of pages bristling with proper names, titles of books and articles, quotations, and dates.

 For a special reason, however, the author will call the name of no one who has helped him since 1927. “Smears” and reprisals upon eminent persons become well known, but for one such notable victim, a thousand others in the government, in universities, and even private citizenship, suffer indignities from arrogant minority wielders of power of censorship and from their hirelings and dupes. Reluctantly, then no personal thanks are here expressed. The author’s friends know well his appreciation of their help, and will understand.

 To all the works cited and to all the authorities quoted in The Iron Curtain Over America, the author owes a debt which he gratefully acknowledges. For the use of copyrighted excerpts over a few lines in length, he has received the specific permission of the authors and publishers, and takes pleasure in extending thanks to the following: The American Legion Magazine and National Commander (1950-1951) Earle Cocke, Jr.; Professor Harry Elmer Barnes; Mr. Bruce Barton and King Features Syndicate; The Christophers; the Clover Business Letter; Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, Inc.; The Freeman; The Embassy of Lebanon; Human Events; The New York Times; The Tablet; The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia Company, Inc.; The Washington Daily News; and the Washington Times-Herald. Further details including the titles and names of the authors are given on the appropriate pages, in order that those interested may know how to locate the cited work, whether for purchase or perusal in a library.

 Two newspapers and two magazines deserve especial thanks. Because of a full coverage of news and the verbatim reprinting of official documents, the current issues and the thoroughly indexed bound or on microfilmed back numbers of the New York Times were essential in the preparation of The Iron Curtain Over America. The Washington Times-Herald was obligatory reading, too, because of its coverage of the Washington scene, as well as the international scene, with fearless uncensored reporting.

 After careful checking for accuracy and viewpoint, both the American Legion Magazine and Foreign Service, the magazine of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, have published feature articles by the author in the general field of the United States-Soviet relations. Dedicated as it is to those veterans who gave their lives. The Iron Curtain Over America may be considered as a token of gratitude to our two great organizations of veterans for personal introductions to their five million patriotic readers.

 To one and all, then -- to publishers, to periodical, and to people who have helped - to the dead as well as to the living - to the few who have been named and to the many who must remain anonymous - and finally to his readers, most of whom he will never know except in the spiritual kinship of a great shared mission of spreading the Truth, the author says thank you, from the bottom of his heart!

 

 

 

List of Americans in the Venona papers

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Originally declassified by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Chairman of the bipartisan Commission on Government Secrecy, the Venona project and its associated documentation, contains codenames of several hundred individuals said to be involved on differing levels with the KGB and the GRU.^[1][2] Many of the codenames have been identified by the FBI, CIA, NSA and other academics and historians by using a combination of circumstantial evidence, corroborating testimony from Eastern Bloc defectors, direct surveillance, informants and a number of other means.^[3] Many academics and historians believe that most of the following individuals were either clandestine assets and/or contacts of the KGB, GRU and Soviet Naval GRU.^[4][5].

The following list of individuals is extracted in part from the work of John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr^[2]; as well as others listed in the references below.

To what extent any given individual named below was clandestinely involved with Soviet intelligence is a topic of dispute, with a few scholars, most notably Victor Navasky, skeptical of attempts to identify individuals from codenames found in Venona.

Twenty-four persons targeted for recruitment remain uncorroborated as to it being accomplished. These individuals are marked with an asterisk (*).

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  John Abt United States Department of Agriculture; Works Progress Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; special assistant to the United States Attorney General, United States Department of Justice
  
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  Solomon Adler, United States Department of the Treasury, supplied info to Silvermaster group, went to China after communist revolution and joined government of Mao Zedong
  
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  Lydia Altschuler
  
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  Thomas Babin, Yugoslavia Section Office of Strategic Services
  
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  Marion Bachrach, (*) congressional office manager of Congressman John Bernard of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
  
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  Rudy Baker
  
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  Vladimir Barash
  
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  Joel Barr, United States Army Signal Corps Laboratories
  
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  Alice Barrows, United States Office of Education
  
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  Theodore Bayer, President, Russky Golos Publishing
  
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  George Beiser, National Research Establishment, Research and Development Board; engineer Bell Aircraft
  
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  Aleksandr Belenky, General Electric
  
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  Cedric Belfrage, journalist; British Security Coordination
  
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  Elizabeth Bentley, companion of Jacob Golos of Sound/Myrna group; turned herself in to FBI in 1945 leading to unraveling of many Soviet spy rings
  
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  Marion Davis Berdecio, Office of Naval Intelligence; Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United States Department of State
  
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  Josef Berger, (*) Democratic National Committee
  
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  Joseph Milton Bernstein, Board of Economic Warfare
  
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  Walter Sol Bernstein, Hollywood Screenwriter, listed on the MPAA's Hollywood blacklist
  
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  T.A. Bisson, Board of Economic Warfare
  
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  Thomas Lessing Black, Bureau of Standards United States Department of Commerce
  
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  Samuel Bloomfield, (*) Eastern European Division, Research and Analysis Division, Office of Strategic Services
  
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  Robinson Bobrow
  
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  Ralph Bowen, (*) United States Department of State
  
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  Abraham Brothman, chemist convicted for his role in the Rosenberg ring
  
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  Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States
  
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  Rose Browder
  
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  William Browder
  
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  Michael Burd, Head of Midland Export Corporation
  
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  Paul Burns, employee of TASS
  
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  Norman Bursler, United States Department of Justice Anti-Trust Division
  
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  James Michael Callahan
  
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  Sylvia Callen
  
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  Frank Coe, Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; Special Assistant to the United States Ambassador in London; Assistant to the Executive Director, Board of Economic Warfare; Assistant Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration, went to China and joined government of Mao Zedong
  
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  Lona Cohen, sentenced to 20 years; subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV Pack of Lies
  
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  Morris Cohen (Soviet spy) sentenced to 25 years; subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV Pack of Lies
  
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  Eugene Franklin Coleman, RCA electrical engineer
  
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  Anna Colloms, New York City schoolteacher
  
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  Judith Coplon, Foreign Agents Registration section, United States Department of Justice; her convictions for espionage were overturned on technicalities
  
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  Lauchlin Currie, Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt; Deputy Administrator of Foreign Economic Administration; Special Representative to China
  
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  Byron Darling, United States Rubber Company; United States Office of Scientific Research & Development
  
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  Eugene Dennis, General Secretary Communist Party USA sentenced to 5 years for advocating overthrow of U.S. government
  
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  Samuel Dickstein, United States Congressman from New York known to be paid by Soviets; New York State Supreme Court Justice; Vice Chair of HUAC during hearings into the Business Plot against FDR
  
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  Martha Dodd, daughter of United States Ambassador to Germany William Dodd, Popular Front
  
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  William Dodd Jr., son of William Dodd, United States Ambassador to Germany; Democratic Congressional candidate
  
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  Laurence Duggan, head of United States Department of State Division of American Republics
  
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  Demetrius Dvoichenko-Markov, U.S. Army
  
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  Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov
  
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  Frank Dziedzik, National Oil Products Company
  
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  Nathan Einhorn, Executive Secretary of American Newspaper Guild
  
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  Max Elitcher, (*) Naval Ordinance Section, National Bureau of Standards
  
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  Jacob Epstein, International Brigades
  
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  Jack Fahy, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Board of Economic Warfare; United States Department of the Interior
  
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  Linn Markley Farish, Liaison Officer with Tito's Yugoslav Partisan forces, Office of Strategic Services
  
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  Edward Fitzgerald, War Production Board
  
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  Charles Flato, Board of Economic Warfare; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor
  
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  Isaac Folkoff
  
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  Jane Foster, Board of Economic Warfare; Office of Strategic Services; Netherlands Study Unit
  
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  Zalmond Franklin
  
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  Isabel Gallardo
  
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  Boleslaw Gebert, National Officer of Polonia Society of International Workers Order
  
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  Harrison George, senior CPUSA leadership, editor of People's World
  
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  Rebecca Getzoff
  
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  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
  
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  Bela Gold, Assistant Head of Program Surveys, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture; Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Economic Programs in Foreign Economic Administration
  
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  Harry Gold, sentenced to 30 years for his role in the Rosenbergs ring
  
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  Sonia Steinman Gold, Division of Monetary Research United States Department of Treasury Department; United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Interstate Migration; United States Bureau of Employment Security
  
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  Elliot Goldberg, engineer for an oil equipment company in New York
  
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  Jacob Golos, "main pillar" of NKVD spy network, particularly the Sound/Myrna group, he died in the arms of Elizabeth Bentley
  
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  George Gorchoff
  
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  Gerald Graze, United States Department of State
  
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  David Greenglass, machinist at Los Alamos sentenced to 15 years for his role in Rosenberg ring; he was the brother of executed Ethel Rosenberg
  
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  Ruth Greenglass, avoided prosecution thanks to her husband's testimony against his sister that he later admitted was perjured
  
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  Joseph Gregg, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United States Department of State
  
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  Theodore Hall, physicist at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, volunteered to spy for Soviets, never prosecuted
  
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  Maurice Halperin, Chief of Latin American Division, Research and Analysis Section, Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
  
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  Kitty Harris, globe-trotting companion of communist party boss Earl Browder
  
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  William Henwood, Standard Oil of California
  
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  Clarence Hiskey, University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project
  
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  Alger Hiss, Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs United States Department of State, sentenced to 5 years for perjury
  
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  Donald Hiss, United States Department of State; United States Department of Labor; United States Department of the Interior
  
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  Harry Hopkins, advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  
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  Louis Horvitz, International Brigades
  
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  Rosa Isaak, Executive Secretary of the American-Russian Institute
  
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  Herman R. Jacobson, Avery Manufacturing Company
  
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  Bella Joseph, motion picture division of Office of Strategic Services
  
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  Emma Harriet Joseph, (*) Office of Strategic Services
  
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  Julius Joseph, National Resources Planning Board; Federal Security Agency; Social Security Board; Office for Emergency Management; Labor War Manpower Commission; Deputy Chief, Far Eastern section (Japanese Intelligence) Office of Strategic Services
  
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  Gertrude Kahn
  
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  David Karr, Office of War Information; chief aide to journalist Drew Pearson
  
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  Joseph Katz
  
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  Helen Grace Scott Keenan, Office of the Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Office of United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis War Criminals, Office of Strategic Services
  
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  Mary Jane Keeney, Board of Economic Warfare; Allied Staff on Reparations; United Nations
  
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  Philip Keeney, Office of the Coordinator of Information (later OSS)
  
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  Alexander Koral, former engineer of the municipality of New York
  
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  Helen Koral
  
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  Samuel Krafsur, journalist TASS
  
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  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; United States Senate Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; Democratic National Committee
  
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  Christina Krotkova, Office of War Information
  
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  Sergey Nikolaevich Kurnakov
  
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  Stephen Laird, Hollywood Producer; Time Magazine Reporter; Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) correspondent
  
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  Rudy Lambert, California Communist party labor director and head of security
  
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  Oskar Lange
  
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  Trude Lash, United Nations Human Rights Committee
  
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  Richard Lauterbach, Time Magazine
  
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  Duncan Lee, counsel to General William Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services
  
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  Michael Leshing, superintendent of Twentieth Century Fox film laboratories
  
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  Leo Levanas, Shell Oil Company
  
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  Morris Libau
  
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  Helen Lowry
  
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  Willaim Mackey
  
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  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
  
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  William Malisoff, owner of United Laboratories of New York
  
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  Hede Massing, journalist
  
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  Robert Menaker
  
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  Floyd Miller
  
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  James Walter Miller, United States Post Office, Office of Censorship
  
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  Robert Miller, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Near Eastern Division United States Department of State
  
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  Robert Minor, Office of Strategic Services
  
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  Leonard Mins, Russian Section of the Research and Analysis Division of the Office of Strategic Services
  
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  Arthur Moosen
  
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  Vladimir Morkovin, Office of Naval Research
  
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  Boris Moros, Hollywood Producer
  
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  Nicola Napoli, president of Artkino, distributor of Soviet films
  
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  Franz Leopold Neumann, consultant at Board of Economic Warfare; Deputy Chief of the Central European Section of Office of Strategic Services; First Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
  
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  Melita Norwood
  
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  Eugénie Olkhine
  
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  Rose Olsen
  
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  Frank Oppenheimer, (*) physicist
  
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  Robert Oppenheimer
  
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  Nicholas W. Orloff
  
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  Nadia Morris Osipovich
  
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  Edna Patterson
  
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  William Perl, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at Langley Army Air Base; Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory; sentenced to 5 years for his role in the Rosenberg ring of atomic spies
  
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  Victor Perlo, chief of the Aviation Section of the War Production Board; Head of Branch in Research Section, Office of Price Administration Department of Commerce; Division of Monetary Research Department of Treasury; Brookings Institution
  
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  Burton Perry
  
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  Aleksandr N. Petroff, Curtiss-Wright Aircraft
  
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  Emma Phillips
  
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  Paul Pinsky
  
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  William Pinsly, Curtiss-Wright Aircraft, Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory
  
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  William Plourde, engineer with Bell Aircraft
  
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  Vladimir Pozner, head Russian Division photographic section United States War Department
  
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  Lee Pressman Department of Agriculture; Works Progress Administration; General Counsel Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
  
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  Mary Price, stenographer for Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald
  
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  Esther Trebach Rand, United Palestine Appeal
  
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  Bernard Redmont, head of the Foreign News Bureau Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
  
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  Peter Rhodes, Foreign Broadcasting Monitoring Service, Allied Military Headquarters London; Chief of the Atlantic News Service, Office of War Information
  
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