Soviet spies in America (1921-1948)

Chronolgy and structure of Comintern, CPUSA, and Soviet espionage networks in the United States.

Contents
1 KGB
1.1 Ware group
1.2 NY Rezidentura
1.2.1 Sound and Myrna groups
1.2.1.1 Silvermaster group
1.2.1.2 Perlo group
1.2.2 The “Berg” – “Art” Group
1.2.3 Atlschuler group
1.2.4 Buben group
1.3 CPUSA/OSS
1.3.1 OSS
1.3.2 Mocase
1.3.3 Rosenberg ring
1.4 DC Rezidentura
1.5 SF Rezidentura
1.6 Ottawa Rezidentura
1.7 Mexico City Rezidentura
1.8 South America
2 KGB Illegal Rezidentura
2.1 Redhead group
3 GRU
3.1 GRU Rezidentura
3.1.1 GRU San Fransisco Rezidentura
4 GRU Illegals
4.1 Karl group
5 Naval GRU
6 Lines
7 External link


KGB
J. Peters
Bernard Schuster

Ware group
Hal Ware (1925 - 1935)
John Abt (1935 - March 1944)
Marion Bachrach
Henry Collins, National Recovery Administration; Department of Agriculture
John Herrmann
Alger Hiss
Donald Hiss, FBI FOIA
Charles Kramer
Victor Perlo
Lee Pressman
George Silverman
Nathaniel Weyl
Nathan Witt
Harry Dexter White

NY Rezidentura
Vladimir Pravdin NY Rezident
Olga Pravdina (wife), Ministry of Trade
Gaik Ovakimian (1933 - 1941) NY Rezident
Pavel Pastelnyak (1938 - ) NY Rezident (1941)
Semyon Semenov (1938 - 1944) NY X-line
Anatoly Yatskov (1940 - 1946)
Alexandre Feklisov (1940 - 1946)
Vasily Zubilin (October 1941 - 1944) NY Rezident
Elizabeth Zubilin (1941 - 1944)
Leonid Kvasnikov (1943 - 1945) NY Deputy X-line
Vassili D. Mironov Markov
Pavel Klarin
Pavel Ivanovich Fedosimov [1]
Constantin A. Chugunov NY
Pavel Klarin NY
Mikhail Shalyapin (Mikhail A. Shaliapin)
Andrey Shevchenko, KGB agent operating as an inspector at Bell Aircraft Niagra Falls
Peter Gutzeit
Grigory Heifetz, (1932)
Victor Alexandrovich Lyagin, Amtorg (1939 -1941)
Sergey Lukianov, Soviet Government Purchasing Commission
Harry Rabinovich (Gregory Rabinovich) (Gregory Rabinowitz) ( - d.1938)
Andrey Ivanovich Raina X-line 1942-1946
Stepan Nikolaevich Shudenko
Morris Cohen (1938 - 1950), FBI FOIA
Lona Cohen (1941 - 1950)
Jacob Golos (1921 - 27 November 1945)
Elizabeth Bentley (4 December 1945 - August 1945)

Sound and Myrna groups
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; FBI FOIA
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
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, journalist
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
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
Helen Silvermaster (wife)
Lud Ullman
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
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
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. [2]
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
Lydia Altschuler

Buben group
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
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
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
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
Max Bedacht
Valentine (William G.) Burtan
Haakon Chevalier
Mark Gayn, journalist, The Washington Post; Amerasia case [3]
Ben-Zion Goldberg (Benjamin Waife), journalist, contributor to Toronto Star, Saint Louis Dispatch, New York Post, Today, and New Republic [4]
Grace Granich, [5]
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
William Kampiles, sold KH-11 spy satellite info
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
Jack Soble
Myra Soble
Jacob Albam
Boris Morros
Alfred Stern
George Zlatovski (George Zlatkowski), United States Army intelligence officer [6]
Jane Zlatovski
Will Morgan
Miriam Moskowitz
Steve Nelson
Harold Nicholson CIA officer who supplied information to the Soviets for a time in 1994
Joe North, editor of the New Masses
Julia Older, Office of Strategic Services; Office of War Infornation
Alexander Orlov KGB advisor to the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War who defected to the United States in 1938.
Mildred Price, sister of Mary Price, leader of China Aid Council

Rosenberg ring
Julius Rosenberg
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 [7]
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
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
Grigory Kheifets, SF Rezident
Grigory Kasparov
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
Vladimir Pavlov, (Vitaly Pavlov) Canada (1939 - 1942)

Mexico City Rezidentura
Lev Vasilevsky Mexico City Illegal Rezident

South America
Joseph Romualdovich Grigulevich, Illegal Rezident

KGB Illegal Rezidentura
Valentin Markin Illegal NY Rezident ( - August 1934?)
Boris Bazarov Illegal NY Rezident (1934 - ) [8]
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
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
Nicholas Fisher
Maria Fisher
Peter Gutzeit Officer

GRU
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
Boris Nikolayevich Rodin (1939 -1945)
Pavel Mikhailov (1941 - ) NY Rezident

GRU San Fransisco Rezidentura
Peter Ivanov
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
George Vuchinich, OSS
Daniel Zaret, United States Army Explosives Division

GRU Illegals
Moishe Stern, Officer
Boris Devyatkin
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

Karl group
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
Josef Peters
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
Boris Devyatkin
Albert Feierabend
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
Joshua Tamer

Naval GRU
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
===I-line=== - informational line
Josef Peters
===P-line=== - political line
===X-line=== - atomic or scientific-technical line
Semyon Semenov (1938 - 1944) NY
Leonid Kvasnikov (1943 - 1945) NY
Anatoli Yatskov (1941 - )
Harry Azizov

External link
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