Silvermaster File
Summaries

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Volume 1

November 1945

Recounts the earliest Bentley allegations and the beginning of Bureau efforts to follow up on these. Contains an overview of the penetration problem as initially described by Bentley, plus preliminary data pulled together on Silvermaster, Currie, Miller, staffers at OSS, Treasury, and elsewhere. Also discussed are Bentley disclosures on media-related figures, including Winston Burdett of CBS and Mary Price, a Bentley contact formerly in the office of columnist Walter Lippmann. VIEW FILE

Volume 2

November 1945

Numerous requests and authorizations for FBI wiretaps and mail covers on principal Bentley suspects. Surveillance data on activities and interactions of such people and their contacts—Robert Miller, Joseph Gregg, Minter Wood, Harold Glasser, Donald Wheeler, et al. Information concerning Cedric Belfrage, Frederick V. Field, Louise Bransten, and many others. Indicates FBI had started to assemble data fragments into larger picture. VIEW FILE

Volume 3

early December 1945

Discussion of and background data on various people named by Bentley and their contacts, including secondary figures who were or would be the focus of other investigative efforts—Abe Brothman, Marya Blow, William Hinckley, Harry Magdoff, Irving Kaplan, David Weintraub. Further detail about associates of Robert Miller. VIEW FILE

Volume 4

mid to late December 1945

Wiretap-surveillance logs on Silvermaster, Harold Glasser, Alger Hiss, interactions of Maurice Halperin, Philip Dunaway, and David Wahl. Contacts among Silvermaster, Philip Keeney, and Wahl. Surveillance of Albert Kahn. Designation of file as “Gregory” case (code name for Bentley). (Forthcoming)

Volume 5

late November–December ’45

Preliminary survey of individual cases, including biographical data, Bentley allegations, surveillance findings, and security information. Discusses U.S. suspects, alleged outside Communist contacts, and identified Soviet agents. Indexed by name in following order:

Anatoli Borisovich Gromov, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, William Ludwig Ullmann, Jacob N. Golos, Joseph B. Gregg, Maurice Halperin, Victor Perlo, Bernard Sidney Redmont, Abraham George Silverman, Helen Tenney, Harold Glasser, Bela Gold, Sonia Gold, Donald Wheeler, Charles Kramer, Major Duncan Lee, Sol Leshinsky, Henry Magdoff, Robert Talbott Miller III, Willard Z. Park, Gaik Badolovitch Ovakimian, Michael Greenberg, William Walter Remington, Eugene Hiss [sic], J. Julius Joseph, Major Charles G. Kades, V. J. Jerome, Irving Kaplan, Hazen Size, William H. Taylor, Sol Adler, Elizabeth Terrill Bentley, F. Brown, Lauchlin Currie, Edward Fitzgerald, Harry Dexter White, Allan R. Rosenberg, Ruth Rivkin, George Perazich, Mary Price, World Tourist, Inc., U. S. Service and Shipping Company, Lt. Col. John H. Reynolds VIEW FILE

Volume 6

late November 1945

Consists almost entirely of 107-page formal Bentley statement giving overview and numerous details on Communist/Soviet operation in U.S., signed by her on November 30, 1945, and witnessed by FBI agents. Discusses linkage of apparatus to Soviet handlers and recounts several score individual cases including all principal suspects and such lesser lights as Julius Joseph, Allan Rosenberg, Ruth Rifkin, Bernard Redmont, Willard Park, Peter Rhodes.

Much discussion also of espionage tradecraft, conflicts between Bentley and her Soviet handlers over who should manage US governmental contacts, involvement of former Communist Party chief Earl Browder, Bentley’s growing disillusionment. Comprehensive name index at end, including individuals and organizations VIEW FILE

Volume 7

late November 1945

Tracks extensive inter-relationships of suspects, including Robert Miller, Joseph Gregg, Peter Rhodes, Maurice Halperin, David Wahl, Silvermaster, Mary Jane Keeney, and numerous others. Data on background and 1940 draft deferment request by State Department in behalf of Alger Hiss. Interactions of Victor Perlo and Stanley Graze. Description of photographic set-up in Silvermaster basement. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Sol Adler, Lauchlin Currie, Edward Fitzgerald, Harold Glasser, Bela Gold, Sonia Gold, Michael Greenberg, Joseph B. Gregg, Maurice Halperin, Alger Hiss, Irving Kaplan, Charles Kramer, Lt. Col. Duncan C. Lee, Sol Leshinsky [sic], Harry Magdoff, Robert T. Miller III, Willard Z. Park, George N. Perazich, Victor Perlo, Bernard Sidney Redmont, Peter Christopher Rhodes, Ruth S. Rifkin, Allan R. Rosenberg, Abraham George Silverman, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Hazen Edward Sise, William H. Taylor, Helen Tenney, William Ludwig Ullmann, Donald Niven Wheeler, Harry Dexter White VIEW FILE

Volume 8

December 1945

Surveillance summary on numerous suspects: Brothman, Silvermaster, William Ludwig Ullmann, A. George Silverman, Harry White, Victor Perlo, Alger Hiss, Joseph Gregg, Duncan Lee, Peter Rhodes, Lauchlin Currie, Solomon Adler, etc. Statement that no fewer than 227 FBI agents in Washington and New York were involved with the investigation, and proposal to cut back on scope of surveillance to focus on primary suspects.

Statement also that Bureau results to date confirm Bentley, as follows: “Generally speaking, Bentley’s allegations regarding Communist Party sympathies, personal acquaintances and contacts between individuals named and their access to certain types of Government information has been born out by data already in Bureau files as well as by physical and technical surveillance.” Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Peter C. Rhodes, Joseph Gregg, Dr. Abraham B. Weinstein, Alexander Koral, Julius Shrager, Richard Koral, Jack Koral, Gregory, Ray Elson, Joseph Elson, Mrs. James E. Hurley, Frank Dutto, Lena Dutto, Murray Kane, Josephine Kane, Billie Hardy, Louise H. Schatz, Lauchlin Currie, Harry Dexter White, Ruth Terry White, Dr. Abraham Wolfson, Dr. Martin Wangh, Allan R. Rosenberg, Warren R. Scharfman, Mary Wolfe Price, James Hibben, James Herbert Hibben, Mildred Price, Abraham Brothman, A. Brothman and Associates, Ferruccio Marini, Juliet Stuart Poyntz Glaser, Mr. and Mrs. William Hinckley, Lem Harris, Nathan and Helen Silvermaster, Sol Adler VIEW FILE

Volume 9

late December 1945

Continuing surveillance of Bentley people and their contacts, including Washington governmental cases but with particular emphasis on New York-based suspects. Indexed by name as follows:

Ray Elson, Abe Hackman, Mrs. Sarge Ettlinger, Susan Siporin, Mrs. Ray Elson, Peter C. Rhodes, Maurice J. English, Clifton R. Read, Lauchlin Currie, International Industrial Development Corporation, Irving Kaplan, Martin Wangh, Ann Wangh, Abraham Wolfson, Lement Upham Harris, Alexander Koral, Claymer Schluter, William Walter Remington, Allan Rosenberg, William Weiner, Mary Wolfe Price, James Herbert Hibben, Mildred Price VIEW FILE

Volume 10

December 1945

Background and biographical data from interviews, surveillance, educational, employment, or draft records and security files on more than three dozen subjects, including individuals and organizations. Indexed by name as follows (plus comprehensive name, subject index at end):

Alexander Koral, Gregory [i.e., Bentley], Colonel John H. Reynolds, Lem Harris, Ted Bayer, Alexsandrovich Chaliaplin, Ray Elson, Joseph Elson, Frank Dutto, Peter C. Rhodes, N. Gregory Silvermaster, Helen Silvermaster, Abraham Brothman, Rose Arenal, Luis Arenal Bastar, Albert E. Kahn, Bernard Schuster, World Tourist, Incorporated, United States Service and Shipping Corporation, Michael Endelman, Pauline Rogers, Mildred Price, Tom Moore Price, Ruth Price, John Paul Price, William Enoch Price, Dr. James V. Price, Carolina Davis Price, Wright Moore Price, Pattie Branson Price, China Aid Council, Samuel L. M. Barlow, Dr. Phyllis Ackerman, Arthur Upham Pope, Harold Russell Coy, Victor Perlo, Charlie Kramer, John Abt, Frederick V. Field, Lieutenant Colonel Duncan C. Lee, Jerome K. Orbach VIEW FILE

Volume 11

mid to late December 1945

Further summary of surveillance and other investigative data, again involving some Washington suspects but with a preponderance of cases from New York, including interviews with and observations by Bentley concerning her New York Communist Party contacts. Indexed by name as follows:

Gregory [Bentley], Helen Johns, Ted Bayer, Earl Browder, Alexander Koral, Ray Elson, Frank Dutto, “Fanny”, “Jack”, Abe Hochman, Verona Daniel Hardy, Abraham Brothman, Michael Greenberg, Pauline Rogers, Michael Endelman, Lauchlin Currie, John L. Spivak, Willard Z. Park, Albert E. Kahn

Also, miscellaneous information on surveillance methods and results, plus wrap-up on Washington suspect William W. Remington. VIEW FILE

Volume 12

mid to late December 1945

Comprehensive, 255-page compilation of surveillance logs and background checks focused on major Washington cases. Shows numerous interactions among suspects, their contacts with more peripheral figures, and the involvement of Soviet Embassy officials. Indexed by name as follows (with more comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Lauchlin Currie, Edward J. Fitzgerald, Fedor Alexeevich Garanin, Harold Glasser, Bela Gold, Sonia Gold, Joseph B. Gregg, Anatoli Borisovich Gromov, Maurice Halperin, Alger Hiss, Irving Kaplan, Charles Kramer, Lt. Col. Duncan C. Lee, Sol Leshinsky, Harry S. Magdoff, Robert Talbott Miller III, Willard Z. Park, Victor Perlo, Bernard Sidney Redmont, William Walter Remington, Peter Christopher Rhodes, Ruth Rifkin, Allan Robert Rosenberg, Claymer Schluter, Abraham George Silverman, Helen Tenney, Hazen Edward Sise, William Ludwig Ullmann, Donald Niven Wheeler, Harry Dexter White. VIEW FILE

Volume 13

December 1945

Further discusses curtailing physical surveillance of so many people. Extended discussion of Michael Greenberg and Mary Price, both involved with China issues. Greenberg connections to Lauchlin Currie, Owen Lattimore, Hilda Austern, and others. FBI confirmation of Bentley statement that N. G. Silvermaster had photographic set-up in his home. Data on Maurice Halperin, Willard Park, Helen Tenney, linkage of Silvermaster to Currie. Bureau comments on “evidentiary problems” relating to Amerasia case. Comprehensive name/subject index at end. VIEW FILE

Volume 14

December 1945—January 1946

Interactions of Maurice Halperin, Joseph Gregg, Robert Miller, and unidentified woman employed by UNRRA. Contacts recounted among George Perazich of UNRRA staff (Yugoslavia), Irving Kaplan, Edward Fitzgerald. Further details on Perazich. Contacts of Robert Miller with Herman Habicht, John Marsalka, Minter Wood, and, apparently, Alger Hiss. Further background on Mildred Price. Extensive biographical data on Miller, listing more than 70 individuals known as contacts of Miller and his wife, including Travis Hedrick, Duncan Aikman, Alice and Philip Raine, Maurice Halperin, John Hazard, Randolph Feltus, E. J. Askwith, John Marsalka, Haldore Hanson, Florence Levy, Howard Fast, Charles A. Page, Minter Wood, and Rowena Rommel, plus additional contacts of Russian origin or nationality. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 15

December 1945

First appearance of FBI chart depicting relationships among Bentley suspects and their associates, including Washington and New York contacts, Silvermaster group, Perlo group, Soviet intermediaries and agents. Extensive background on Grace Granich, links to Amerasia group, and report that she was to be contacted by John Stewart Service of the State Department. Background on Michael Greenberg, connected to IPR, Andrew Roth of Amerasia case, Bowen Smith and others in federal government. Further background on Alger Hiss, Irving Kaplan, Dr. Abraham Weinstein, and others. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 16

December 1945—January 1946

Reproduces FBI Director Hoover’s letter of Nov. 8, ’45 to Gen. Harry Vaughan in the White House, for the attention of President Truman, giving a quick provisional summary of Bentley’s initial revelations. Among the individuals named as suspects: N. G. Silvermaster, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, Duncan Lee, Maurice Halperin, and others.

Also, Hoover memos of Nov. 14 and Nov. 15 recounting the president’s response, telling Hoover to discuss matter with Secretary of State James Byrnes. Hoover says names of principal Bentley suspects given to Byrnes also, mentions defection of Soviet code clerk Igor Gouzenko in Canada, and discusses case of J. Robert Oppenheimer, of collateral concern to both Byrnes and Hoover.

Volume also contains extensive background on Albert Kahn and his reported contacts including Mrs. John Abt (Jessica Smith), Howard Fast, former White House aide David Niles, CP leader Gilbert Green, union leader Harry Bridges, Philip Jaffe of Amerasia. VIEW FILE

Volume 17

(Forthcoming)

Volume 18

late December 1945

Further surveillance updates on activities and interactions of Bentley suspects. Most notable feature is focus on Alger Hiss and his associates/contacts – including his brother Donald, Elwood Thompson, and Harold Stein. In the case of N. G. Silvermaster, linkages noted to Mary Van Kleeck, Edwin Smith, Alice Barrows, Haakon Chevalier, and Louise Bransten. Extensive section on Maurice Halperin, and his numerous dealings with David Wahl, Philip Dunaway, Robert Miller, and OSS/intelligence affairs at State Department. Further background data on Duncan Lee, Solomon Lischinsky, Robert Miller et al. Indexed by name as follows (with more comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Edward Fitzgerald, [REDACTED], Harold Glasser, Bela Gold, Sonia Gold, Michael Greenberg, Joseph Gregg, [REDACTED], Maurice Halperin, Alger Hiss, Irving Kaplan, Philip O. Keeney, Charles Kramer, Lt. Col. Duncan C. Lee, Solomon Aaron Lischinsky, Harry S. Magdoff, Robert T. Miller III, George N. Perazich, Victor Perlo, Bernard Redmont, William W. Remington, Peter C. Rhodes, Allan R. Rosenberg, Claymer Schluter, Abraham G. Silverman, Nathan G. Silvermaster, Helen Tenney, William L. Ullmann, Donald N. Wheeler, Harry D. White VIEW FILE

Volume 19

Dec. 1945—January 1946

Further summary of surveillance efforts and background checks concerning major suspects. Extensive data pertaining to Halperin, Wahl, Woodrow Borah of OSS, and OSS/intelligence affairs at State. Follow-up on Alger Hiss, Elwood Thompson, and Hiss associate Donald Blaisdell. Interactions of Irving Kaplan, Edward Fitzgerald, Herbert Fuchs, Russell Nixon, and Elizabeth Sasuly. Heavily blacked out section on Philip and Mary Jane Keeney, further data on Duncan Lee including contact with Bess Lomax Hawes of OWI, contact between Victor Perlo and Stanley Graze of OSS. Extensive 7-page section on David Wahl blacked out/withdrawn entirely. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Catherine”; Currie, Lauchlin; Fitzgerald, Edward Joseph; [REDACTED]; Glasser, Harold; Gold, Bela; Greenberg, Michael; Gregg, Joseph R.; [REDACTED]; Halperin, Maurice; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Keeney, Philip Olin; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Lt. Col. Duncan C.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Magdoff, Harry; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Perazich, George N.; Perlo, Victor; Redmont, Bernard Sidney; Remington, William Walter; Rivkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wahl, David Ralph; Wheeler, David Niven; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 20

Surveillance results and background data on Bentley suspects and their contacts, mostly in New York City. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Cedric Henning Belfrage, Berthold Viertel, Ray Elson, Milton Neumann Kemnitz, Ruth Virginia Miller, Shirley Persin, Mitchell Siporin, Confidential Informant Gregory, Alexander Koral, Peter C. Rhodes, George Adams, aka George Adam, William Walter Remington, Lieutenant John Hazard Reynolds, Dr. Abraham Benedict Weinstein VIEW FILE

Volume 21

February 1946

Devoted mostly to Washington cases, but with some from New York. Opens with February 1 Hoover letter to Gen. Harry Vaughan in the White House, for the attention of President Truman, concerning Harry Dexter White and his official contacts. This followed by 28-page report on White, Silvermaster and others in the Washington group of suspects, indexed as follows:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

HARRY DEXTER WHITE
Original Charges
Background of Harry Dexter White
Collateral Information Available Prior to November, 1945
Results of Investigation Since November, 1945
Primary Contacts and Collaborators

Nathan Gregory Silvermaster and Helen Witte Silvermaster, his wife
William Ludwig Ullmann
Schlomer Adler
Sonie Steinman Gold
Harold Glasser
Irving Kaplan
William Henry Taylor
Abraham George Silverman
Donald Niven Wheeler

This followed by updates on various other subjects of investigation including Joseph Gregg, Abraham Weinstein, Peter Rhodes, Alexander Koral, Abraham Brothman, Cedric Belfrage, Helen Tenney, Charles Kramer, and others. Comprehensive name/subject index at end. VIEW FILE

Volume 22

February—early March 1946

Opens with FBI report to Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg of G-2 (Army counterintelligence unit) concerning William Ludwig Ullmann, then in War Department, setting forth Ullmann’s connections to Silvermaster group. Memoranda concerning handling of White case. Updates concerning Allan Rosenberg, Bowen Smith, Irving Kaplan, George Perazich, Duncan Lee, Silvermasters, Josiah Dubois, others.

Further Hoover memo on White case, saying: “I told the Attorney General I felt it was unwise for White to serve” [at IMF]. Various memoranda on secondary/tertiary subjects of investigation, including Latin connections (e.g. Vincent Lombardo Toledano), Jacob Landau of Overseas News Agency and link to Office of War Information, Frederic Vanderbilt Field of IPR. Report to Secretary of State James Byrnes on Alger Hiss, dated February 21, 1946. Extensive but heavily blacked out update on David Wahl, with seven pages missing. Surveillance of Mary Jane Keeney on her return from Europe in early March. VIEW FILE

Volume 23

February 1946

Further discussion of Harry Dexter White case, and different version of February 1 report on White (this dated February 21), noteworthy in that it gives specific bases for various allegations. This followed by 194-page wrap-up of entire case as it then stood (also dated February 21), entitled “Underground Espionage Organization (NKVD) in Agencies of the United States Government.” Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREDICATION
BACKGROUND OF CURRENT PRESENTATIONS
BACKGROUND OF GREGORY
METHOD OF OPERATION OF SOVIET ESPIONAGE SYSTEM
THE SILVERMASTER GROUP
NATHAN GREGORY SILVERMASTER, WAS [with aliases] AND
HELEN WITTE SILVERMASTER, WAS
SCHLOMER ADLER, WAS
NORMAN CHANDLER BURSLER
VIRGINIUS FRANK COE
LAUCHLIN BERNARD CURRIE
BELA GOLD, WAS
SONIA STEINMAN GOLD, WAS
IRVING KAPLAN
ABRAHAM GEORGE SILVERMAN, WAS
WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR
WILLIAM LUDWIG ULLMAN, WAS
ANATOLE BORIS VOLKOV
HARRY DEXTER WHITE
THE PERLO GROUP
VICTOR PERLO, WAS
EDWARD JOSEPH FITZGERALD
HAROLD GLASSER
ALGER HISS
CHARLES KRAMER, WAS
SOLOMON AARON LISCHINSKY, WAS
HARRY SAMUEL MAGDOFF, WAS
GEORGE F. PERAZICH
ALLAN ROBERT ROSENBERG
DONALD NIVEN WHEELER
MISCELLANEOUS INDIVIDUALS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
MICHAEL GREENBERG, WAS
JOSEPH B. GREGG
MAURICE HALPERIN
JULIUS JOSEPH JOSEPH
DUNCAL CHAPLIN LEE
ROBERT TALBOTT MILLER, III
WILLARD Z. PARK
MARY WOLFE PRICE
BERNARD SIDNEY REDMONT
WILLIAM WALTER REMINGTON
PETER CHRISTOPHER RHODES
RUTH RIFKIN, WAS
MRS. HELEN GRACE RESWICK SCOTT-KEENAW [Helen Scott]
HAZEN EDWARD SISE
BOWEN SMITH
HELEN B. TENNEY
MISCELLANEOUS INDIVIDUALS IN NEW YORK AND VICINITY
CEDRIC HENNING BELFRAGE
ABRAHAM BROTHMAN, WAS
RAY ELSON, WAS
MICHAEL ENDELMAN, WAS
MILDRED PRICE
LT. COL. JOHN HAZARD REYNOLDS
DR. ABRAHAM BENEDICT WEINSTEIN
SOVIET REPRESENTATIVES
ANATOLI BORISOVICH GROMOV, WAS
[REDACTED]
OLGA BORISOVNA PRAVDINA
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Volume 24

March 1946

Reproduction of Bentley statement of November 8, 1945, running to 31 pages. Reproduction of Hoover requests for authorization from Attorney General for “technical surveillance” [wiretapping] of Lauchlin Currie, Alger Hiss, others. Discussion of Rowena Rommel of State Department and her contacts with Robert Miller. Extended discussion of Albert Kahn, listing of numerous contacts of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller, including the following, among others: Jacob Golos, N. G. Silvermaster, Polya Habicht, Travis Hedrick, Solomon Trone, Duncan Aikman, Alice Raine, Benjamin Margolin, Maurice Halperin, John Hazard, Randolph Feltus, E. J. Askwith, Charles Flato, John Marsalka, Haldore Hanson, Robert Magidoff, Shura Lewis, Joseph Starobin, Howard Fast, Charles Page, Minter Wood, Rowena Rommel, Major [Philip] Faymonville.

Summary/transcript of phone call in which Maurice Halperin discusses changes going on in State Department, and his contacts concerning these with department officials Benjamin Cohen and Col. Alfred McCormack, involving former OSS employees then at State. VIEW FILE

Volume 25

Late January-March 1946

Miscellaneous reports and updates reflecting information on suspects provided to top officials. Of particular historical interest are memoranda from January and early February ’46 concerning security data on Harry Dexter White and Hoover instructions to have these made available to the White House (a topic of contention later). Lengthy memoranda also discussing Dr. Abraham Wolfson, brother-in-law of White’s wife, and Wolfson’s Communist front connections. Discussion as well of William Remington and Harold Glasser (This memo has name index at end.)

Teletypes and briefer memos dealing with Ursula Wasserman, Earl Browder, Helen Tenney, Woodrow Borah, Maurice Halperin, Harry Magdoff, Solomon Adler, N.G. Silvermaster, Norman C. Bursler, others. Several of these communications concern efforts to get security data on cases to responsible officials and, in the case of Alger Hiss, his discussion of adverse reports with Secretary of State James Byrnes and Bureau plans for interview sought by Hiss with Hoover. Second half of volume is a case-by-case report on suspects on official payrolls, broken down by government agencies, as follows:

U.S. Army: Michael Greenberg, John Hazard Reynolds; Department of Commerce: Edward Fitzgerald, Harry Magdoff; Foreign Economic Administration: Bela Gold; Department of Justice: Norman C. Bursler; U.S. Navy: William Remington; Office of Price Administration: Charles Kramer; Reconstruction Finance Corporation: N.G. Silvermaster; State Department: Joseph Gregg, Alger Hiss, Robert Miller, Helen Scott-Keenan, Bowen Smith, Helen B. Tenney, Donald Wheeler; Treasury Department: Solomon Adler, V. Frank Coe, Harold Glasser, Sonia Gold, Irving Kaplan, Victor Perlo, William Henry Taylor, William Ludwig Ullmann, Harry Dexter White; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration: Julius Joseph, Solomon Lischinsky, Willard Park, George Perazich, Ruth Rifkin; Recently left official payrolls: Lauchlin Currie, Michael Endelman, Maurice Halperin, Duncan C. Lee, Bernard Redmont, Peter C. Rhodes, Allan Rosenberg, A. George Silverman.

Volume also includes redacted memoranda relating to James Roy Newman and Herbert Marks, both in Federal employ and both of investigative interest to the Bureau. VIEW FILE

Volume 25 (Part I)

March 1946

Summary of investigative results concerning Willard Park (including connection to Louise Bransten), Bernard Redmont, William Remington, Peter Rhodes, Ruth Rifkin, Helen Tenney, Cedric Belfrage, Albert Kahn and his contacts, including David Karr, Howard Fast, David Niles, Gilbert Green, Harry Bridges, and Philip Jaffe of Amerasia.

Others covered in this volume include Frederic Brown, Mildred Price, John H. Reynolds, Abraham Weinstein, John Abt, Louis Adamic, Luis and Rose Arenal, Theodore Bayer, Richard Bransten (aka Bruce Minton), Grace Granich, John Spivak. Comprehensive name/ subject index at end. VIEW FILE

Volume 25 (Part II)

March 1946

Discussion of various subjects, plus memos on handling of reports and cases. Lengthy memo on Dr. Abraham Wolfson, brother-in-law of Mrs. Harry Dexter White. Discussion of Mary Jane Keeney and her contacts with Ursula Wasserman, Jules Korchien, and Joseph Bernstein. Contact noted between Michael Greenberg and Michael Straight of The New Republic. Brief update on Alger Hiss.

Longest section of this volume is a breakdown of subjects of investigation by departments where they were working, or had recently been, running to 25 pages. Principal points of concentration were State Department (including former employees of OSS and OWI), Treasury Department and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA).

Among the individuals discussed: Michael Greenberg, Edward Fitzgerald, Harry Magdoff, Bela Gold, William Remington, Charles Kramer, N. G. Silvermaster, Joseph Gregg, Alger Hiss, Robert Miller, Helen Scott, Bowen Smith, Helen Tenney, Donald Wheeler, Solomon Adler, V. Frank Coe, Harold Glasser, Irving Kaplan, Victor Perlo, William Taylor, William Ludwig Ullmann, Harry Dexter White, Julius Joseph, Solomon Lischinsky, Willard Park, George Perazich, Ruth Rifkin, Lauchlin Currie, Michael Endelman, Maurice Halperin, Duncan Lee, Bernard Redmont, Peter Rhodes, Allan Rosenberg, Abraham George Silverman. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 26

March 1, 1946

Summary of surveillance results in preceding weeks. Section on Joseph Gregg contains extended discussion of internal State Department battle over intelligence responsibilities. Heavily blacked out pages on Michael Greenberg and Soviet agent Anatoli Gromov (separate sections).

Further discussion of State Department intelligence battles in conversations of Maurice Halperin, Woodrow Borah, Philip Dunaway. Halperin contacts with David Wahl. Contacts of Robert Miller with Rowena Rommel, William Remingtons with Fred Neal, Bernard Redmonts. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Catherine; Fitzgerald, Edward Joseph; Gold, Bela and Sonia; [REDACTED]; Glasser, Harold; Greenberg, Michael; Gregg, Joseph B.; Gromov, Anatoli B.; Halperin, Maurice; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Lt. Col. Duncan C.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Magdoff, Harry S.; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Perazich, George N.; Perlo, Victor; Redmont, Bernard Sidney; Remington, William Walter; Rivkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Schluter, Claymer; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter (Forthcoming)

Volume 27

March 11, 1946

Further surveillance updates. Background on Joseph Gregg, including fact that Robert Miller had vouched for his loyalty. Contact of Irving Kaplan with Russell Nixon, both returned from Germany. Background on Alix Reuther, formerly with Office of War Information. Interactions of E. J. Askwith with Bernard Redmonts, Helen Scott, Alice Raine, and others. Discussion between Helen Silvermaster and Elizabeth Sasuly concerning “Louise” and “Richard” (Bransten, separated couple) and custody of child. Helen Silvermaster contact with Mrs. Edward Condon. Further data on dispute between the Branstens. Extended discussion between Charles Kramer and Harry Dexter White concerning post-war foreign loans. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Fitzgerald, Edward Joseph; [REDACTED]; Glasser, Harold; Gold, Bela and Sonia; Greenberg, Michael; Gregg, Joseph B.; Halperin, Maurice; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Lt. Col. Duncan C.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Magdoff, Harry S.; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Perlo, Victor; Redmont, Bernard Sidney; Remington, William Walter; Rifkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Schluter, Claymer; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 28

March 1, 1946

Surveillance summaries covering period from mid-January to late February. Contacts of Cedric Belfrage with Claude Williams, Joseph North, others. Discussion of Belfrage post-war activities in Germany setting up newspapers. Contacts of Abe Brothman and Jules Korchien. Long section on Mildred Price, her husband Harold Coy, their links to Commonwealth College, Price activities and contacts concerning China, including Grace Granich, Philip Jaffe, others. Background on Harold Coy and Federal Writers’ Project, Federated Press. Connection of N. G. Silvermaster to Joseph Gaer. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

CEDRIC HENNING BELFRAGE, Claude Williams, Joseph North, Victor Jeremy Jerome, Isadore Schneider, ABRAHAM BROTHMAN, Bernard O. Koopman, Jules Korchien, MILDRED PRICE COY, Harold Russell Coy, RAY ELSON, Louis C. Coleman, Hila C. Coleman, MICHAEL ENDELMAN, MICHAEL GREENBERG, JOSEPH GREGG, Confidential informant GREGORY, ALEXANDER KORAL, FERRUCCIO MARINI, ROBERT T. MILLER, OLGA BORISOVNA PRAVDINA, PETER CHRISTOPHER RHODES, NATHAN GREGORY SILVERMASTER, Joseph Gaer, ABRAHAM BENEDICT WEINSTEIN VIEW FILE

Volume 29

March 1946

Surveillance summary from late February. Connections of Norman Chandler Bursler with Robert Brady, Harold Glasser with Thomas Emerson, Sonia Gold with Elizabeth Sasuly. Discussion between Duncan Lee and Robert Barnett of State Department. Maurice Halperin discusses intelligence set-up/conflicts at State with David Wahl. Completely redacted section on Charles Kramer. Contacts between Mrs. Harry Magdoff and George Perazich, Joan Redmont and Helen Scott, Redmont contacts with Dwight Mallon, E. J. Askwith. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

“Catherine”; Bursler, Norman Chandler; Fitzgerald, Edward Joseph; [REDACTED]; Glasser, Harold; Gold, Bela and Sonia; Greenberg, Michael; Gregg, Joseph B.; [REDACTED]; Halperin, Maurice; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Lt. Col. Duncan C.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Magdoff, Harry S.; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Perlo, Victor; Redmont, Bernard Sidney; Remington, William Walter; Rifkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 30

late March, 1946

Discussion of Albert Kahn, connection to International Workers Order, other activities, FBI recommendation that he be denied passport. Hoover memo setting forth background on N. G. Silvermaster, comments on case by Albert Klein of Civil Service Commission and security official Charles Keating. Memo on Herbert Marks and James Newman, substantially redacted. Contacts of George Perazich in California. Further memo on Marks and Newman, almost entirely blacked out except for last page, containing references to Dr. Edward Condon, N. G. Silvermaster, Dean Acheson, and others. Summary of FBI reports on various cases as distributed to high officials. Report to State Department on Claymer Schluter, Peter Rhodes. Background and activities of Donald Wheeler. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 31

late March 1946

Surveillance memos concerning Woodrow Borah, Maurice Halperin, conclusion of intelligence dispute at State Department. Additional data on N. G. Silvermaster, links to Richard Bransten, as provided by security official Charles Keating. Memo on Herbert Marks/James Newman, Dean Acheson and others indicating that derogatory allegations on these subjects came from J. A. Panuch at State Department. Extended memo on Alger Hiss, based on Whittaker Chambers allegations. Hoover memos on Joseph Gregg and Dr. Abraham Weinstein. Extensive background data on Ursula Wasserman, formerly of OWI, and list of contacts, publications, activities, travels.

Last third of this volume provides further surveillance and background summaries concerning Cedric Belfrage, contacts between Louise Bransten and Leo Hubermans, Ray Elson and Jack McMichael, background data on Duncan Lee, Peter Rhodes, Dr. Abraham Weinstein. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

CEDRICK HENNING BELFRAGE, Donald Lee West, Gertrude Rient Gangadaren, Leo Huberman, ABRAHAM BROTHMAN, LAUCHLIN CURRIE, RAY ELSON, Robert Elson, Shirley Elson, John Frank Boetch, Ginette Schain, Confidential informant GREGORY, MAURICE HALPERIN, ALBERT E. KAHN, Lieutenant Colonel DUNCAN CHAPLIN LEE, FERRUCCIO MARINI, OLGA BORISOVNA PRAVDINA, MARY WOLFE PRICE, MILDRED PRICE, Leonard Outhwaite, WILLIAM WALTER REMINGTON, LIEUTENANT Colonel John Hazard Reynolds, PETER CHRISTOPHER RHODES, ALEXANDER KORAL, ROBERT TALBOTT MILLER, Dr. ABRAHAM B. WEINSTEIN VIEW FILE

Volume 32

late March 1946

Hoover memo to State Department linking State Department employee Bernard Nortman to Victor Perlo. Contact of Joseph Gregg with Minter Wood. Conversation of Helen Scott and Joan Redmont, mentioning link to Julia Older. Brief background on Solomon Adler, conversation of Maurice Halperin and Woodrow Borah, writings of Earl Browder reproduced. Gregg discusses forced resignation from State Department. Further report on Herbert Marks, entirely redacted. Background on Charles Kramer in office of Sen. Claude Pepper. Recap of FBI reports to high officials. Memoranda on interview of Alger Hiss with Secretary of State James Byrnes, Hiss’ response to allegations. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 33

late March 1946

Surveillance summaries for preceding month focused mainly on New York suspects. Extended section on Cedric Belfrage. Main Washington link concerned Mary Jane Keeney, surveilled on her return from Germany, meeting with New York subjects Jules Korchien, Ursula Wasserman and Joseph Bernstein. Discussion of document passed from Keeney to Bernstein. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

CEDRIC H. BELFRAGE, Luther Conant, ABRAHAM BROTHMAN, Jules Korchien, Ursula Wasserman, Mary Jane Keeney, NORMAN CHANDLER BURSLER, LAUCHLIN CURRIE, RAY ELSON, Hyman Bernstein, Frieda Bernstein, Bella Doren, Dorothy Golden, Irving Levine, MICHAEL ENDELMAN, Michalena Fabian, MICHAEL GREENBERG, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT GREGORY, VLADIMIR KAZAKHEVICH, AVROM LANDRY, FERRUCCIO MARINI, OLGA B. PRAVDINA, ALLAN ROSENBERG, JOHN L. SPIVAK, ABRAHAM BENEDIICT WEINSTEIN, HARRY DEXTER WHITE VIEW FILE

Volume 34

late March 1946

Extensive background data on Norman Bursler, links to George Perazich, connections to Prof. Robert Brady. Contacts of Edward Fitzgerald, Harry Magdoff. Further discussion by Maurice Halperin re intelligence conflict at State Department, Halperin contacts with Philip Dunaway, Bob Rogers, David Wahl. Extended discussion between Halperin and Woodrow Borah on changes at State, employees being forced out. Mention of Harold Weisberg. Contacts of Mary Jane Keeney with Mrs. Donald Wheeler, discussion of Donald Wheeler’s brother George Wheeler in Germany. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Bursler, Norman Chandler; Fitzgerald, Edward Joseph; [REDACTED]; Glasser, Harold; Gold, Bela and Sonia; Greenberg, Michael; Gregg, Joseph B.; [REDACTED]; Halperin, Maurice; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Lt. Col. Duncan C.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Magdoff, Harry S.; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Perazich, George; Perlo, Victor; Redmont, Bernard Sidney; Remington, William Walker; Rifkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Schluter, Claymer; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 35

April 1946

Hoover memo concerning Assistant Secretary of War Howard Peterson and War Department stance toward Communists serving in the Army. Section relating to Ursula Wasserman blacked out entirely. Contacts reported among Robert Miller, William Ludwig Ullmann, N. G. Silvermaster, Joseph Gregg, Maurice Halperin, Polya Habicht, Florence Levy and others. Contacts also among Silvermaster, Ullmann and Mary Jane Keeney. Data on Dr. James Wood (not Minter Wood). Background memo on Edward Fitzgerald. Memo at end concerning suspects dropped from State Department blacked out entirely. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 36

April 1946

Logs of long distance telephone calls made in late 1945 by major subjects of investigation, listing person/place called, number of times called and date of call. Such calls logged for the following individuals: Lauchlin Bernard Currie, Harold Glasser, Bela Gold, Sonia Steinman Gold, Joseph B. Gregg, Maurice Halperin, Alger Hiss, Irving Kaplan, Charles Kramer, Duncan Chaplin Lee, Harry Samuel Magdoff, Robert Talbot Miller III, Victor Perlo, Mary Wolfe Price, Bernard Sidney Redmont, William Walter Remington, Allan Robert Rosenberg, Abraham George Silverman, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Donald Niven Wheeler, Harry Dexter White. Also included is comprehensive index of people and places called, amounting to more than 300 entries. VIEW FILE

Volume 37 (missing)

Volume 38

April 1946

Heavily blacked out report on Ursula Wasserman. Contact between Harry Magdoff and Irving Kaplan, discussing Owen Lattimore. Kaplan contact with Solomon Lischinsky, discussing aid supplies for China, Greece and Yugoslavia. Conversation between Helen Silvermaster and friend employed at UNRRA. Background on Yugoslav émigré community in California. Surveillance updates concerning Silvermaster family, Joseph Gregg. Memoranda on Howard Peterson, links to Marks/Newman investigation, and Hoover comments. Blacked out memo on Edward Rosskam, formerly of OWI. Discussion of possible effort to reactivate Bentley within the Communist Party. Memos discussing links to Igor Gouzenko case (the “Corby” case) and need for more systematic U.S. defense against foreign agent penetration. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 39 (missing)

Volume 40

April 1946

7-page report on Cedric Belfrage. Surveillance, contacts of Mary Jane Keeney, Joseph Bernstein, Helen Silvermaster, Hazen Sise, Joseph Gregg, George Silverman, Harry Magdoff, Robert and Jenney Miller, Jerry Askwith, Palmar Weber, Report on Silvermaster case from Mexico, entirely blacked out or withhheld. Investigation of Helen Tenney, Contacts of Joseph and Rose Gregg, Irving and Dorothy Kaplan, Mrs. Harry Magdoff, George Silverman, William Ludwig Ullman, Harold Glasser, A.B. Weinstein, Ray Elson. Hoover memo to the Attorney General re Senator McKellar's request for information on Leo Pasvolsky, Gustavo Duran, Alger Hiss. Report on George Perazich. Surveillance of Edward Fitzgerald, Maurice Halperin, Irving Kaplan, Beattie Magdoff, Robert Miller, Dr. Robert Morse, Victor Perlo, Helen Silvermaster, Mary Jane Keeney, John Dierkes, Ludwig Ullmann, David Weintraub. Several largely redacted documents re Ursula Wasserman's travel to Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo. 22-page report on investigation of various individuals in California in connection with Silvermaster case. Memo recapping distribution of information on Alger Hiss to Attorney General in December 1945-February 1946. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 41

April 1946

Volume consists entirely of 30 page report on Ursula Wasserman, her activities and contacts in the U.S. and Latin America. All heavily redacted. Name/subject index at end blacked out completely. VIEW FILE

Volume 42

April 1946

Memo entitled “CINRAD” (“Communists in Radiation Lab”) blacked out almost entirely but with indications at the end that one individual discussed was Byron Miller, with context unclear. Reports/updates on other collateral figures. Contact between Edwin Smith and Harry Dexter White concerning Smith’s troubles obtaining passport. Further blacked-out memos on Ursula Wasserman. Memo recounting interview with Ben Mandel at State Department concerning status of counterintelligence files and attempts to eliminate these. Prominent mention by Mandel of George Schwarzwalder, Paul Appleby, Rowena Rommel. Further breakdown of subjects then serving or recently in government agencies, as follows:

Michael Greenberg, John Hazard Reynolds, Edward Fitzgerald, Harry Magdoff, Bela Gold, Norman Bursler Chandler, William W. Remington, Charles Kramer, N. G. Silvermaster, Joseph Gregg, Alger Hiss, Robert T. Miller, Helen Scott, Bowen Smith, Helen Tenney, Donald Wheeler, Solomon Adler, V. Frank Coe, Harold Glasser, Sonia Gold, Irving Kaplan, Victor Perlo, William H. Taylor, William Ludwig Ullmann, Harry Dexter White, Julius Joseph, Solomon Lischinsky, Willard Park, George Perazich, Ruth Rifkin, Lauchlin Currie, Michael Endelman, Maurice Halperin, Duncan C. Lee, Bernard Redmont, Peter C. Rhodes, Allan Rosenberg, A. George Silverman. Last item in file is memo concerning inquiry to FBI from Sen. Kenneth Wherry about State Department employees Gustavo Duran and Alger Hiss. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 43

early May 1946

Further surveillance updates on principal suspects, their activities and contacts in the preceding months. Most extensive section involves Maurice Halperin, Bob Rogers, Woodrow Borah, Joseph Gregg, David Wahl, Irving Goldman, Alexander Lesser, and others discussing internal conflict in State Department over intelligence and security matters, criticism of security officers Robert Bannerman and Frederick Lyon. Seven pages of 9-page update on Herbert Marks redacted. Similar heavy redactions in companion case of James R. Newman. Update on contacts of Bernard and Joan Redmont with Helen Scott, E. J. Askwith, Samuel Krafsur, others. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Fitzgerald, Edward Joseph; [REDACTED]; Glasser, Harold; Gold, Bela and Sonia; Greenberg, Michael; Gregg, Joseph B.; [REDACTED]; Halperin, Maurice; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Keeney, Mary Jane; Keeney, Philip Olin; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Lt. Col. Duncan C.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Magdoff, Harry S.; Marks, Herbert S.; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Newman, James R.; Perazich, George; Perlo, Victor; Redmont, Bernard Sidney; Remington, William Walter; Rifkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Schluter, Claymer; Scott, Helen; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 44

late April-May 1946

Further surveillance updates on Charles Kramer, N. G. Silvermaster, George Perazich, Victor Perlo, others; background data on Michael Greenberg, Harry Dexter White and other, mostly peripheral figures. Most substantial portion is discussion of Michael Greenberg and his contacts. Section concerning Harold Weisberg redacted. Name/subject index at end. VIEW FILE

Volume 45

mid-April 1946

Background and further surveillance data on main suspects and their associates. Brief vita of Solomon Adler, émigré from England, tracing career in U.S. and on Federal payroll. Detailed discussion of Michael Greenberg, also from England, and also employed by U.S. government. Extended sections on interactions of Joseph Gregg, Robert Miller, Maurice Halperin, Woodrow Borah, Philip Dunaway, David Wahl, and others, mostly concerning intelligence battles at State Department and suspects being pressured out. Surveillance of Mary Jane and Philip Keeney, contact with N. G. Silvermaster, background on Keeney contact Lois Carlisle. Long section on Bernard and Joan Redmont, contacts with Helen Scott, E. J. Askwith and others. Indexed by name as follows (comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Adler, Solomon; Fitzgerald, Edward Joseph; [REDACTED]; Glasser, Harold; Gold, Bela and Sonia; Greenberg, Michael; Gregg, Joseph B.; Halperin, Maurice; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Keeney, Mary Jane; Keeney, Philip Olin; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Lt. Col. Duncan C.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Long, Norton E.; Magdoff, Harry S.; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Perazich, George; Perlo, Victor; Redmont, Bernard Sidney; Remington, William Walter; Rifkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Schluter, Claymer; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 46

early May 1946

Memo and Hoover letter to Secretary of State James Byrnes concerning activities of Maurice Halperin, Woodrow Borah and intelligence unit shutdown. Memos and letters concerning Charles Kramer and Albert Kahn, heavily redacted. Discussion of Harry Dexter White appointment to IMF. Brief updates on Mary Jane Keeney, Woodrow Borah, George Perazich, Harry Magdoff. Statement by surveillance subject, identity blacked out, that only “progressives” were to be hired by UNRRA in China, plus discussion of hiring at OWI, indicating to FBI that subject and associates were “active in placing Communists in government jobs in Washington and elsewhere.” Heavily blacked out section on State Department dismissals. Memo at end by FBI Special Agent Guy Hottel concerning apparent coordinated movement of many suspects into agencies dealing with post-war matters. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 47 (missing)

Volume 48

late May 1946

Lengthy memo from FBI official D. M. Ladd to Hoover about dismissal of Maurice Halperin and Woodrow Borah from State Department. Brief updates on Cedric Belfrage, others, mention that Andrew Steiger had gone to work for UNRRA. Brief updates on Bernard Redmont, Maurice Halperin, Donald Wheeler, George S. Wheeler, N. G. Silvermaster, David Wahl. Lengthy Hoover memo about Elizabeth Bentley contacts “Jack”, “Al” and others, mentioning Peter Rhodes and Cedric Belfrage. Photographs of Maurice Halperin, Woodrow Borah, Philip Dunaway, Bob Rogers. Two lengthy Bureau memos on background and associates of Alger Hiss. Background memo on Fred Warner Neal, contact of William Remington. Brief updates on N. G. Silvermaster, Herbert Marks, Mary Jane Keeney, Helen Scott. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 49

May 1946

Updates on subjects and contacts, mostly in New York, heavily redacted in places. Discussion between Mildred Price and contact about a projected UNRRA trip to China and planned referral to Mme. Sun Yat-Sen, contact of Price. Lengthy memo on Cedric Belfrage, contact with Joseph Gaer, background on Gaer including connections to Louise Bransten, Leo Huberman and others. Belfrage contact with Eric Fromm, background on Fromm. Further discussion of Belfrage post-war role concerning German press. Brief discussion of John H. Reynolds, Earl Browder, Theodore Bayer. Update on Dr. Abraham Weinstein. Indexed by name as follows (comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Dr. MOSES ASUBEL, CEDRIC H. BELFRAGE, ABRAHAM BROTHMAN, Jules Korchien, Ursula Wasserman, Edward and Louise Rosskam, Jack Delano, EARL BROWDER, LAUCHLIN CURRIE, RAY ELSON, Miriam Behrstock, Louise and Ethel Bially, Jack Goldman was. Yank, Daniel V. and Rose Koerner, JOSEPH GREGG, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT GREGORY, MAURICE HALPERIN, ALGER HISS, James C. Bonbright, Timothy Mobson, ALEXANDER KORAL, CHARLES KRAMER, Leon Josephson, Nathan Einhorn, ALLAN R. ROSENBERG, Howard L. Hausman, HELEN TENNEY, ABRAHAM B. WEINSTEIN, HARRY D. WHITE VIEW FILE

Volume 50

late April-early June 1946

Hoover memo to George Allen, close associate of President Truman, concerning Charles Kramer on staff of committee headed by Sen. Claude Pepper. Lengthy Hoover letter to Allen setting forth allegations that numerous high government officials were involved in an extensive espionage network. Among those named: Dean Acheson, Herbert Marks, John J. McCloy, Henry Wallace, Paul Appleby, George Schwarzwalder, Dr. Edward Condon, Alger Hiss, James Newman. Numerous heavily redacted updates on Bentley suspects, State Department resignations. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 51

May 1946

Further surveillance updates, again with emphasis on Maurice Halperin-Woodrow Borah group, discussion of State Department security-intelligence matters involving Col. Alfred McCormack, opposition of Willmoore Kendall. Mention of Katesbee (Catesby) Jones, reported connections to McCormack and Spruille Braden. Updates on Herbert Marks, Edward Condon, Harold Stein, Thomas Emerson. Extensive background on Condon, Stein and Emerson. Mention of and brief background on Byron Miller. Contacts of Stein with Alger Hiss. Brief discussion of George Perazich and David Weintraub, both at UNRRA. Interactions of Joan Redmont, Helen Scott, Mrs. William Remington, Alix Reuther, Samuel Krafsurs, Minter Woods, repeated contacts of Joan Redmont and E. J. Askwith. Contacts of Mrs. Donald Wheeler with Patricia and Robert Barnett of State Department, recap of discussion between Robert Barnett and Duncan Lee. Contact between Harry Dexter White and Josiah Dubois concerning post-war plans for Germany. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Fitzgerald, Edward Joseph; [REDACTED]; Glasser, Harold; Gold, Bela and Sonia; Greenberg, Michael; Gregg, Joseph B.; Halperin, Maurice; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Keeney, Philip Olin; Keeney, Mary Jane; Kramer, Charles; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Long, Norton E.; Magdoff, Harry S.; Marks, Herbert Simon; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Perazich, George; Perlo, Victor; Redmont, Bernard Sidney; Remington, William Walter; Rifkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Schluter, Claymer; Scott, Helen; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; Sise, Hazen Edward; [REDACTED]; Chuba, Olive; Krafsur, Samuel S. [THREE ENTRIES REDACTED]; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wasserman, Ursula; Williams, Faith; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 52

July 1946

Continued surveillance update on N. G. Silvermaster, allegation that Bernard Redmont was recruited into Communist underground by William Remington, updates on Helen Tenney with Strategic Services Unit of War Department (a successor to OSS) and plans to remove her from her position there. Hoover memo to George Allen concerning Silvermaster. Further brief updates on Ursula Wasserman, Edwin Rosskam, others, many heavily redacted. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 53

June 1946

Continued surveillance updates involving Joseph Gregg-Robert Miller group. Gregg contacts with Bruce Waybur (former employee of William Ludwig Ullmann), Waybur contact with Gordon Griffiths, formerly of State Department, Gregg contacts with Robert Miller, Minter Wood. Extended discussions among Maurice Halperin, Woodrow Borah, David Wahl, Bob Rogers, et al., concerning internal battle at State Department against Willmoore Kendall. Halperin-Borah contacts with Irving Goldman, Alexander Lesser. Heavily blacked out section on Charles Kramer, mentions contact of Mrs. Kramer with Alice Barrows, Nelson Cruikshank, and others. Update on Solomon Lischinsky, contact with Gerald and Mildred Graze (nee Gordon) and Joel Gordon. Contact of Lischinsky with Ruth Rifkin, both employed at UNRRA. Also contacts of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Magdoff with Lischinsky, Hildegard Kneeland. Background on Kneeland, including contact with Alice Barrows and earlier subversion charges of Dr. William Wirt.

Also, further contacts of Redmont with Helen Scott, E. J. Askwith, Mrs. Samuel Krafsur, Dwight Mallon, notation that Mallon was boy friend of Askwith. Contact of Joan Redmont with Alice Raine. Interactions of Silvermaster with Millers, Richard and Elizabeth Sasuly, Polya Habicht, William Taylor, Mary Jane Keeney, Cynthia and John Dierkes, Joseph Gaer, others. Section on David Wahl heavily redacted. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Endelman, Arnold; Fitzgerald, Edward Joseph; [REDACTED]; Glasser, Harold; Gold, Bela and Sonia; Greenberg, Michael; Gregg, Joseph B.; Halperin, Maurice; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Lt. Col. Duncan C.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Magdoff, Harry S.; Marks, Herbert S.; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Morse, Robert Thatcher; Newman, James R.; Perazich, George; Perlo, Victor; Redmont, Bernard Sidney; Remington, William Walter; Rifkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Schluter, Claymer; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; Gaer, Joseph; [THREE ENTRIES REDACTED]; Krafsur, Samuel S.; Taylor, William H.; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wahl, David; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 54

June 1946

Incidental updates, leads and additions to files on various suspects, mainly of minor nature. Repeat of chart from Volume 15 reflecting set-up of Bentley network (slightly better copy).

Extensive background on Edwin Rosskam. Contacts noted between Allan Rosenberg-Maurice Halperin and Just Lunning of State Department. Extensive record of conversations between Harry Dexter White and Charles Kramer, White and Lee Pressman, White and Henry Morgenthau. Record of conversation between Elizabeth Bentley and William Browder, brother of Earl Browder. Further contact of Maurice Halperin and Joseph Gregg discussing mutual friends, Halperin comment that “we are all one family after you get down to it.”

Also, discussion between Allan Rosenberg and Allen Saylor about preventing “red baiter” connected to “right wing Polish faction” from obtaining radio license. Heavily redacted FBI memo expressing concern that “the State Department … would undoubtedly compromise the source” of confidential information. Contact between Joseph Gregg and Mrs. Carl Marzani, Inez Munoz, Halperins, Wahl, Dunaway, Borah, et al., supplied to Frederick Lyon at State Department, summarizing previous findings. Extensive discussions toward end of report concerning James Newman and Viola Ilma (separate sections). Brief index dealing only with last part of volume. VIEW FILE

Volume 55

late June 1946

Assorted surveillance updates on Mary Jane Keeney and others, including Keeney contacts with Ursula Wasserman and Lois Carlisle. Statement by Carlisle that she was working with union lawyer to draw up statement on personnel policy at State Department. Reproduction of lengthy letter from Solomon Adler in China, apparently addressed to V. Frank Coe. Contacts noted among Edward Fitzgerald and Mrs. Herbert Fuchs, Lauchlin Currie and A. G. Silverman, Mary Jane Keeney and Bernard Nortman.

Thereafter, bulk of volume is wrap-up of surveillance for month of May , including contacts of Cedric Belfrage with James Aronson and Albert Kahn, Abraham Brothman with representative of American Russian Institute, statement that Andrew Steiger, formerly of Institute, was going with UNRRA, possibly to China. Extensive updates on activities of Ursula Wasserman and Ray Elson. Heavily blacked out section on Harold Glasser. Background on Alexander Koral, N. G. Silvermaster, Abraham Weinstein, and others. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Cedric Belfrage, Ilya Ehrenberg, Abraham Brothman, Jules Korchien, Ursula Wasserman, Lauchlin Currie, Frederic C. Gans, Ray Elson, Rose Howard, Jean M. Barsay, Abraham Geller, Harvey Kagan, Jack Goldman, Hattie Champ, Michael Endelman, Harold Glasser, Louis Gluck, Bela Gold, Max Mermelstein, Joseph Gregg, Confidential Informant Gregory, Earl Browder, William Browder, Alexander Koral, Maurice Halperin, Rosalie Grinsberg, Tom Fizdale, Alger Hiss, William Platt, Harry Magdoff, Anna Grossman, Robert Talbott Miller III, Sidney and Minnie Stein, Olga Pravdin, Ruth Rifkin, Herbert Joseph Conhaim, Allan R. Rosenberg, Mrs. Lester M. Levin, Abraham George Silverman, Jack W. Field, Sol Rosenblatt, Joe Susman, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Abraham Benedict Weinstein, Ted Baumgold VIEW FILE

Volume 56

May—July 1946

Miscellaneous updates and addenda on suspects and their associates, many of incidental nature, with numerous entries heavily redacted. Information relating to release of Helen Tenney from War Department, further detail on Maurice Halperin being let go from State Department, return of Solomon Adler from China, Adler contact with A. G. Silverman, and Silverman contact with Harry Dexter White. Contact of Mary Jane Keeney with Olive Chuba of Soviet News Agency, TASS.

Most substantial item in file is FBI summary of July 15, 1946, sent by Hoover to Frederick Lyon of State Department concerning Robert Miller. This capsules contacts of Miller and his wife with former Treasury staffer Randy Feltus, Joseph Gregg, Florence Levy, Maurice Halperin, N. G. Silvermaster, William Ludwig Ullmann, John Dierkes, Polya Habicht, Alexandra Lewis, John Marsalka, Mrs. John Fahey, and others. Volume also contains summary by Hoover of allegations concerning James Newman and Herbert Marks, their alleged connections to N. G. Silvermaster, Dr. Edward Condon, Alger Hiss and various high officials. Brief indexed section at end dealing with Joseph Gregg and Dr. Abraham Wolfson, brother-in-law of Mrs. Harry Dexter White. VIEW FILE

Volume 57

June—July 1946

Further miscellaneous surveillance updates, mostly brief, including interactions among Solomon Adler and A. G. Silverman, Silverman and David Weintraub of UNRRA, joint activity of Silverman and Lauchlin Currie. Contacts among Maurice Halperin, Alexander Lesser of State, Julius Joseph of UNRRA, Mrs. Philip Dunaway, Joseph visit to office of Allan Rosenberg. Brief updates on Irving Kaplan, Harry Magdoff, Helen Tenney.

Second half of volume consists of report devoted to activities in Latin America of Bernard Redmont and Ursula Wasserman, both original Bentley suspects. Report is heavily redacted, but notes extended contact in Buenos Aires between Redmont and State Department official Richard Post. Contacts of Wasserman in Buenos Aires also given, but almost all substantive information redacted. Name/subject index at end of Redmont-Wasserman section. VIEW FILE

Volume 58

July 1946

Summary of surveillance and other investigation dating from early part of June. Section touching on activities of Henry Collins, Bernard Redmont, Abel Plenn heavily redacted. Collins mentioned again in subsequent section as having obtained job in State Department office of John Hilldring. Most extensive section concerns further comment on internal battle in State Department involving Maurice Halperin, Woodrow Borah, others. Discussion of State Department employees/Halperin contacts Alexander Lesser, Irving Goldman, Mrs. Hannah Goldman.

Various contacts of Alger Hiss set forth, including Jack Thompson, Mrs. Donald Blaisdell, Jack Ross. Section on Charles Kramer almost entirely blacked out. Extensive updates on Harry Magdoff, notes connections to George Perazich, Jozo Tomasevich and J. Krasiuts, all involved with UNRRA/Yugoslavia. Contacts recorded among Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller, John Dierkes, Herman Habicht, Joseph Gregg, Dr. Robert Morse, others.

Extensive section also on James Newman, contacts with Helen Gahagan Douglas, Philleo Nash, Alfred Friendly, Byron Miller, Thomas Emerson, Harold Stein, Myer Cohen of UNRRA. Background given on Douglas, Cohen, Friendly, Nash, others. Also set forth are contacts among Allan Rosenberg, Bowen Smith, Edward Fitzgerald, Just Lunning, David Wahl, Philip Dunaway. Contacts of George Silverman with David Weintraub, Lauchlin Currie and Irving Kaplan. Contacts between David Wahl and Herbert Fierst, Wahl and Maurice Halperin. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Fitzgerald, Edward J.; [REDACTED]; Gold, Bela and Sonia; Greenberg, Michael; Gregg, Joseph B.; Halperin, Maurice; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Duncan E.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Long, Norton E.; Magdoff, Harry S.; Marks, Herbert S.; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Morse, Dr. Robert Thatcher; Newman, James R.; Perazich, George N. ; Perlo, Victor; Remington, William Walter; Rifkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Schluter, Claymer; Schott, Helen; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; TASS News Agency; Todd, Laurence; [TWO ENTRIES REDACTED]; Chuba, Olive Sutton; Taylor, William Henry; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wahl, David R.; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 59

July 1946

Summary of investigative results from June 1 through mid-July ’46, with main emphasis on New York cases. Wiretap data on Abe Brothman, Jules Korchien. Ursula Wasserman connection noted to Mary Jane Keeney, Jack Delano of OWI. Update on connections of Ray Elson, Elizabeth Bentley contact in New York. Contact between Joseph Gregg and Erich Fromm, Fromm and Cedric Belfrage, Gregg and Peter Rhodes. Mention of Helen Tenney’s fiancé, Scott Lockwood, also formerly of OSS. Background of Dr. Abraham Weinstein. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Cedric Belfrage, Abraham Brothman, Jules Korchien, Ursula Wasserman, Lauchlin Currie, David Scoll, Mrs. Marion Henderson, Ray Elson, Michael Endelman, Harold Glasser, Nancy Wertheimer, Michael Greenberg, Joseph Gregg, Sonia Thorp, Confidential Informant Gregory, Helen Tenney, Charles Kramer, Nathan Witt, Duncan C. Lee, Herbert Simon Marks, James R. Newman, Jerome Weidman, Victor Perlo, Steven Jacobs, Olga Pravdin, Unknown subject “John,” Abraham Benedict Weinstein, Theodore Baumgold, Harry Dexter White, David Liebowitz VIEW FILE

Volume 60

June 1946

More surveillance data, with many previous contacts repeated but with various new ones, and many interactions among groups of suspects. Section on Harold Glasser almost entirely redacted. Extended discussion of Joseph Gregg lists his connections to Carl Marzani, Bruce Waybur, Minter Wood, Inez Munoz, Marshall Wolfe, Robert Miller. Considerable discussion of joint business endeavor of Gregg and Marzani. Further comment on connection of Irving and Hannah Goldman (of Miller/Gregg office at State Department), with Maurice Halperin. Further discussion of Halperin-Borah contacts with Gregg, Philip Dunaway, David Wahl, Alexander Lesser.

Also, discussion between Philip Dunaway and Theodore Halperin, brother of Maurice, concerning contacts with Russ Nixon, Len de Caux, Travis Hedrick, I. F. Stone, Carl Green, Bruce Waybur, Elizabeth Sasuly. Contacts among Mary Jane Keeney, Mrs. Maurice Halperin, David Wahl, Carl Green, Mrs. Robert Miller, Florence Levy, Maynard Gertler, Philip Dunaway, others. Further contacts among Duncan Lees, Donald Wheelers, Robert Barnetts, Duncan Lee and David Karr. Connection between Victor Perlo and Henry Collins, Helen Scott and Bernard Redmonts with Andrew and Julia Older (brother and sister), both formerly of OWI. Statement that Andrew Older and his wife Isabel “are both registered Communists in the District of Columbia in 1946.” Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Fitzgerald, Edward J.; [REDACTED]; Glasser, Harold; Gold, Bela and Sonia; Greenberg, Michael; Gregg, Joseph B.; Halperin, Maurice; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Keeney, Philip Olin; Keeney, Mary Jane; Kramer, Charles; Al Sherman; Lee, Lt. Col. Duncan C.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Long, Norton E.; Magdoff, Harry S.; Marks, Herbert S.; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Morse, Dr. Robert Thatcher; Newman, James R.; Perazich, George; Perlo, Victor; Redmont, Bernard Sidney; Remington, William Walter; Rifkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Schluter, Claymer; Scott, Helen; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; TASS News Agency; Krafsur, Samuel S.; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wahl, David R.; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 61

late July—early August, 1946

Surveillance of Solomon Adler, back in U.S. from China, on visit to Boston, contacted son of A. G. Silverman. Miscellaneous updates on Helen Silvermaster, Cynthia Dierkes, Julius Joseph, others. Hoover memo to State Department inquiring about Lois Carlisle, contact of Mary Jane Keeney, Carlisle’s employment at State and/or successor unit to OSS. Interactions among Adler, Irving Kaplan, Solomon Lischinsky. Further activity of Abraham Weinstein, contact of Donald Wheeler, with Richard Watt, William Remington with Hollis Peter.

Also, extensive background on Just Lunning of State Department, links to William T. Stone, V. Frank Coe, Philip Dunaway, David Wahl, Donald Wheeler, Allan Rosenberg, Bowen Smith, Edward Fitzgerald. Discussion between Mary Jane Keeney and Sylvia Schimmel about Lunning, who would become Schimmel’s supervisor at State. Further wrap-up of Bentley conversation with William Browder, brother of Earl Browder. Notation toward end that Sol Adler was returning to China in company with Assistant Secretary of War Howard Peterson. Contact between John Marsalka and Helen Silvermaster concerning Marsalka’s move to New Haven, Conn. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 62

late July 1946

Volume consists entirely of further report on activities and contacts of Bernard Redmont and Joan Redmont in Latin America, return to U.S. from Latin America of Ursula Wasserman. Main emphasis is on Bernard Redmont, described as “known Soviet agent.” Redmont’s contacts listed, but most substantive information in file withdrawn or heavily redacted. Index at end blacked out entirely. VIEW FILE

Volume 63

August 1946

Miscellaneous updates, leads and instruction, on various suspects, with most content redacted, in first part of volume. Remainder is summary of surveillance results in early weeks of August: Further data on activity of Sol Adler prior to departure for China, including contacts with Irving Kaplan, Harold Glasser, Murray Latimer, Sol Lischinsky, V. Frank Coe. Contacts of Philip Dunaway with Maurice Halperin, Robert Lamb, Carl Green. Similar contacts among Dunaways, Halperins, Mary Jane Keeney, Julius Joseph, others. Background on John Hazard, contact of Robert Miller.

Also, background on Murray Latimer, contact of N. G. Silvermaster and Irving Kaplan. Discussion of Alice Demerjian, surveilled with Latimer and Kaplan at Washington Airport, but with substantive content on Demerjian redacted. Discussion of Inez Munoz at State Department, contact of Robert Miller and Joseph Gregg, formerly employed by them at publication, Hemisphere. Munoz also listed as close contact of Alix Reuther and Helen Tenney and writer for Federated Press. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Adler, Sol; Dunaway, Philip Howard; Fitzgerald, Edward J.; [REDACTED]; Glasser, Harold; Greenberg, Michael; Hazard, John Newbold; Kramer, Charles; Kulischer, Eugene M.; Latimer, Murray Webb; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Long, Norton E.; Magdoff, Harry S.; Marks, Herbert S.; Munoz, Inez Esperanza; Newman, James R.; Perazich, George N.; Perlo, Victor; Rifkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Schimmel, Herbert; Schluter, Claymer; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; [TWO ENTRIES REDACTED]; Todd, Lawrence; Taylor, William Henry; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig VIEW FILE

Volume 64

August 1946

Summary of surveillance results on numerous subjects dating back for several months. Hoover comments on Abel Plenn, formerly of OWI, but with contents of report redacted. Further reports, also heavily blacked out in places, concerning Henry Collins, contact of William Remington with Byron Miller, interactions of Mary Jane and Philip Keeney with Silvermaster, Ullmann, Halperin, and Miller, plus contacts of Mary Jane Keeney with Ursula Wasserman, Jules Korchien, and Joseph Bernstein. Further notation of contact between Donald Wheeler and Richard Watt.

Last three-quarters of volume is wrap-up of various interactions and contacts among subjects dating to December 1945. Among items noted are connections of John and Cynthia Dierkes to Robert Miller; contacts of Edward Fitzgeralds and George Silverman with Mrs. Frank Cameron; discussion of Alger Hiss State Department contacts Donald Blaisdell and Chester Williams, the latter formerly with UNRRA and OWI, and brief mentions of Williams employee Esther Brunauer; contacts of Irving Kaplan with John Dierkes, Craig Vincent, others; extensive excepts from correspondence of Philip and Mary Jane Keeney.

Also, heavily blacked out sections on Charles Kramer and Harry Magdoff; exhaustive background on James R. Newman, including contacts with Byron Miller; contact between William Remington and Hollis Peter, identified as “connected with the intelligence unit at the State Department”; contact of Richard Sasuly with Silvermasters; Extended section on H. Bowen Smith, with content heavily withdrawn/redacted, but mention of his influence in sending occupation personnel abroad; brief background on Herbert Fierst. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Dierkes, John; Fitzgerald, Edward Joseph; [REDACTED]; Plenn, Abel Rolf; Glasser, Harold; Gold, Bela and Sonia; Greenberg, Michael; Gregg, Joseph B.; Halperin, Maurice; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Keeney, Mary Jane; Keeney, Philip Olin; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Duncan E.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Magdoff, Harry S.; Marks, Herbert S.; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Newman, James R.; Perazich, George N.; Perlo, Victor; Redmont, Bernard S.; Remington, William Walter; Rifkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Schluter, Claymer; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; Smith, Henry Bowen; [REDACTED]; Todd, Lawrence; [TWO ENTRIES REDACTED]; Taylor, William Henry; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wahl, David R.; Ware, Henry Holdship; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 65

August 1946

Summaries of activities, contacts and interactions of subjects during July 1946. Among items covered are brief background of Abel Plenn, further data on contacts of Just Lunning, repeating much of previous information; continued interaction among Maurice Halperin, Theodore Halperin, David Wahl, Philip Dunaway, Maynard Gerstler, Julius Joseph. Contact between Theodore Halperin and identified CP member in DC area; further correspondence of Philip and Mary Jane Keeney, detail on Mary Jane Keeney discussion with Sylvia Schimmel about Just Lunning, notation of Mary Jane Keeney contact with Lois Carlisle.

Discussions also of Mrs. Keeney’s contacts with Michael Greenberg, Eric Beecroft, and Ursula Wasserman; background on Florence Levy, sister-in-law of Robert Miller, including work at State Department and previous employment at Hemisphere; interactions of George Silverman and David Weintraub, recently fired from UNRRA; contacts of Ursula Wasserman with David Melcher and Philleo Nash, formerly of OWI; notation of previous contact between Nash and Louise Bransten. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Fitzgerald, Edward J.; [REDACTED]; Plenn, Abel Roth; Greenberg, Michael; Halperin, Maurice; Joseph, Julius J.; Kaplan, Irving; Keeney, Mary Jane; Keeney, Philip Olin; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Duncan E.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Magdoff, Harry S.; Marks, Herbert S.; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Morse, Dr. Robert Thatcher; Newman, James R.; Nortman, P. Bernard; Perazich, George N.; Perlo, Victor; Remington, William Walter; Rifkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Schluter, Claymer; Scott, Helen; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; [REDACTED]; Chuba, Olive Sutton; [TWO ENTRIES REDACTED]; Todd, Lawrence; Taylor, William Henry; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wahl, David R.; Ware, Henry Holdship; Wasserman, Ursula; Wheeler, Donald Niven VIEW FILE

Volume 66 (missing)

Volume 67

August 1946

Bureau surveillance summaries and background checks indicating further interaction among groups of suspects: Sol Adler with George Silverman, Harold Glasser, Sol Lischinsky, Irving Kaplan, Alan Rosenberg, David Weintraub. Contacts of Henry Collins with Bela Gold, Harry Bridges, Mrs. Victor Perlo, plus background on Collins from Dies Committee and Whittaker Chambers. Continued interactions of Maurice Halperin, David Wahl, Julius Joseph, Woodrow Borah, Bob Rogers, Alexander Lesser, Philip Dunaway, others.

Similar contacts noted, mostly via correspondence, among Mary Jane Keeney, Joseph Bernstein, Frederick V. Field, Jessica Smith, Ursula Wasserman, Robert and Charlotte Serber. Overlaps shown between Maurice Halperin and Robert Miller groups, including Miller contacts with Halperin and Alexander Lesser, as well as with Bernard Redmonts, John Dierkes, and Florence Levy (sister in law of Miller

Further background on James R. Newman. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Fitzgerald, Edward J.; [REDACTED]; Plenn, Abel Rolf; Glasser, Harold; Greenberg, Michael; Halperin, Maurice; Hiss, Alger; Joseph, Julius J.; Gillerman, Gerald; Kaplan, Irving; Keeney, Mary Jane; Keeney, Philip Olin; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Duncan C.; Lewis, Alexsandra Palovna; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Long, Norton E.; Magdoff, Harry S.; Marks, Herbert S.; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Miller, Samuel; Morse, Dr. Robert Thatcher; Newman, James R.; Nortman, P. Bernard; Perazich, George N.; Perlo, Victor; Redmont, Bernard; Remington, William Walter; Rifkin, Ruth; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Schluter, Claymer; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; [TWO ENTRIES REDACTED]; Todd, Lawrence; Taylor, William Henry; Tenney, Helen; Ullmann, William Ludwig; Wahl, David R.; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 68

August 1946

Extensive background on Abraham Brothman, his contacts with Jules Korchien, Soviet commercial agency Amtorg, others. Activities and contacts of Ray Elson, Joseph Gregg, Julius Joseph, Duncan C. Lee, Robert Miller, mostly of incidental nature. Contact reported among James R. Newman, Leo Szilard, and Edward Condon. Apparent contact, but with most information redacted, between Bernard Redmont and two employees at New York Headquarters of OWI. Background on Harold Faggen and Leon Salkind, reported contacts of Ludwig Ullmann. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Solomon Adler, Abraham Brothman, Jules Korchien, Ursula Wasserman, Ray Elson, Joseph Gregg, Henry Holdship Ware, Alger Hiss, Julius Joseph Joseph, Charles Kramer, Jonathan Goldmark, Duncan C. Lee, Robert Talbott Miller III, James R. Newman, Dr. Leo Szilard, Bernard Redmond, Ruth Rifkin, Allan Rosenberg, George Silverman, [REDACTED], Helen Tenney, William Ludwig Ullmann, Leon Salkind, David R. Wahl, Abraham Benedict Weinstein, Donald N. Wheeler, Harry Dexter White VIEW FILE

Volume 69

August 1946

Miscellaneous updates on further activities of main suspects, but with many portions withdrawn or heavily redacted. Virtually complete blackout of FBI information in memo to White House on James R. Newman, but with brief discussion of relationship of Newman to Byron Miller, a contact of William Remington. Discussion between David Weintraub and George Silverman about putative Weintraub job at U.N. Contacts reported between Lillian Dunaway and Mary Jane Keeney; Mrs. William Taylor with Helen Silvermaster, Robert and Mildred Brady, A. M. Kamarck; Mary Price and Mrs. Duncan Lee.

Also, contacts recorded among Robert Millers and John Marsalka, Philip and Alice Raine; Mary Jane Keeney with Woodrow Borah, Eric Beecroft; Carl Green and Mrs. Allan Rosenberg; Max Lowenthal with David Wahl and Herbert Fierst; Allan Rosenberg and Just Lunning; Marsalka with Alexandra (Shura) Lewis; Bureau inquiries concerning contacts of Victor Perlo with G. Graze, Bernard Redmont with Jerry Askwith, others; completely redacted section on Fedor Garanin of Soviet Embassy. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 70

late August—early September 1946

First part of volume consists of miscellaneous updates on numerous suspects, activities and contacts, but with many entries heavily redacted. Lengthy discussion of technical, scientific matters worked on by Abe Brothman. Memo on David Wahl, substantially redacted, recapping contact with Max Lowenthal and Herbert Fierst, and stating that Fierst and Harold Glasser were listed as delegates to the August ’46 UNRRA meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Also, memos on James Newman and Herbert Marks, recapping Newman contacts with Edward Condon, others, and noting Marks’ connection to J. Robert Oppenheimer. Memo concerning Wahl, saying “as early as 1941” he was reported to be a “master” spy for Moscow.

Second half of volume is a wrap-up of further, mostly incidental information on previous list of subjects. In case of Cedric Belfrage, notation that he was believed in contact with a Gunnar Leistikow at OWI, whose references included Marya Blow of Short Wave Research. Extensive data on alleged CP connections of Mrs. Elizabeth Moos, mother-in-law of Bentley suspect William Remington. This section indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Cedric Henning Belfrage, Abraham Brothman, Ursula Wasserman, Norman Chandler Bursler, Alexander Sacks, Lauchlin Currie, Ray Elson, Edward Fitzgerald, [REDACTED], Joseph Gregg, Confidential informant Gregory, Mary Jane Keeney, Philip O. Keeney, Charles Kramer, Herbert Simon Marks, Harry Magdoff, Robert T. Miller III, James R. Newman, Victor Perlo, Mary Wolfe Price, William Walter Remington, Bernard S. Redmont, Peter Rhodes, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Ruth Rifkin, Helen Tenney, David Wahl, Abraham Benedict Weinstein VIEW FILE

Volume 71 (missing)

Volume 72

September—October 1946

Memoranda concerning Henry Collins, including background data from Whittaker Chambers, statement that investigation showed Collins was an associate of Joseph Gregg, Bela and Sonia Gold, and Alger Hiss. Indication that data on Collins and Norman T. Ness were supplied to Frederick Lyon of State Department. Surveillance report concerning October 11 meeting of Mary Jane Keeney, Allan Rosenbergs, Bowen Smiths and Owen Lattimores at Keeney apartment.

Update on new job obtained by N. G. Silvermaster at War Assets Administration, including hand-written note by Hoover, “very probably a promotion.” Discussion of dinner meeting between Harry Dexter White and Drew Pearson reporter David Karr, indicating White and Karr had talked in optimistic terms about the possible departure of James Byrnes and his associates from the State Department. Heavily redacted memo on Just Lunning, indicating he was an acquaintance of Maurice Halperin, Allan Rosenbergs, Philip Dunaway, and David Wahl. Memo concerning Samuel Klaus and “secret security committee” at State. Several memos on Bernard Redmont and his activity in Latin America. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 73

October 1946

Extensive, 230-page memo containing further data on more than 40 subjects of investigation and their contacts. Much of the information consists of routine data or financial, educational and employment background on individuals previously noted. Discussion among Harry Magdoff, Edward Fitzgerald, and others about political prospects of Henry Wallace. Contacts noted among John Dierkes and Silvermaster, Helen Silvermaster and Mrs. Robert Miller, notation that Dierkes had been with Treasury in German occupation, commendation of his work by Harry Dexter White.

Also, contacts reported between Edward Fitzgerald and Gertrude Cameron, discussion by Philip Keeney of his role in occupation of Japan, and that of Mary Jane Keeney in Berlin. Contacts of Mary Jane Keeney with Michael Greenberg, Alix Reuther, Stanley and Mildred Graze, Woodrow Borah, Helen Silvermaster, others. Contact of John Marsalka with Czech official Vladimir Houdek. Indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Adler, Solomon; Joseph Silverman; Bursler, Norman Chandler; Coe, Virginius Frank; Collins, Henry Hill, Jr.; Dierkes, John H.; Fitzgerald, Edward; [REDACTED]; Gertler, Maynard; Glasser, Harold; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Keeney, Mary Jane and Philip Olin; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Duncan C.; Long, Norton E.; Magdoff, Harry Samuel; Edmund J. Stone, Jane S. Stone, Alfred and Beatrice Van Tassel, Harold and Katherine Stone; Marks, Herbert S.; Marsalka, John Paul Milan; Munoz, Inez Esperanza; Newman, James R.; Nortman, P. Bernard; Older, Andrew H.; Perlo, Victor; Plenn, Abel Rolf; Price, Mary; Redmont, Bernard S.; Remington, William R.; Rifkin, Ruth Sarah; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Schimmel, Herbert; Silverman, A. George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; Smith, H. Bowen; [REDACTED]; Lawrence Todd, Samuel S. Krafsur, [REDACTED], Olive Sutton Chuba; Wahl, David; Ware, Henry Holdship VIEW FILE

Volume 74

October 1946

Miscellaneous teletype and other surveillance updates, with many key passages redacted. William Ludwig Ullman refers Ursula Wasserman to a Sidney Klepper, just returned from Germany, for information about events there. Notation that Harry Dexter White had met with Ambassador from Poland. Brochure reproduced from the “New Council of American Business,” in which Henry Wallace, N. G. Silvermaster, Victor Perlo, and Harry Magdoff are featured.

Also, reports concerning Fred W. Neal and Richard Post, but with all substantive information blacked out. Memo from Hoover to James Byrnes concerning the case of Robert Miller. Notation that David Weintraub had obtained a job at U.N., and that his sister was Rose Alpher, per Mary Jane Keeney discussion with Woodrow Borah. Keeney in contact with Mrs. Dorothy Todd (wife of TASS correspondent), Bowen Smith, Philip Dunaway. Not indexed. VIEW FILE

Volume 75 (missing)

Volume 76

October 1946

Volume opens with memoranda on James Newman, almost entirely redacted, and Herbert Marks, the latter concerning a New Yorker article featuring Marks, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Acheson-Lilienthal plan for control of atomic energy. Further memos on Robert Miller, Alger Hiss and Gustavo Duran and State Department requests for information on these, but with most substantive information on all three redacted.

Next 100 pages of volume consist of further surveillance updates, with considerable financial and other background information. Memo on Maynard Gertler heavily redacted. Contact of Mary Jane Keeney with Henrietta Buckmaster. Brief background on E. J. Askwith as contact of Bernard Redmont and Robert Miller. Several memos concerning David Wahl, mostly of routine nature, but with a number of passages redacted. This section indexed by name as follows (with comprehensive name/subject index at end):

Cedric Henning Belfrage, Abraham Brothman, Ursula Wasserman, Lauchlin Currie, Ray Elson, Michael Endelman, Leon Erlich, [REDACTED], Maynard Gertler, Michael Greenberg, Joseph Gregg, Confidential informant Gregory, J. Julius Joseph, Mary Jane Keeney, Charles Kramer, Harry Magdoff, Robert T. Miller, Olga Prandina, Bernard S. Redmont, George Silverman, David Wahl, Abraham Benedict Weinstein, Donald Niven Wheeler, Harry Dexter White

Last part of volume contains memo on Bernard Redmont contact in Latin America with William Weiland, this also heavily redacted; plus discussion of Jules Korchien, with notation that check should be made of possible contacts with Benjamin Cohen of State Department, and that Cohen was instrumental in “fixing” the case of John Stewart Service and Amerasia. Toward end of volume, statement that memos on Alger Hiss and Gustavo Duran will follow. Hiss memo is included, but that on Duran is not. VIEW FILE

Volume 77

September 1946

Volume consists entirely of partly blacked out 227-page report on movements, contacts and background of a large number of subjects including Alger Hiss, Henry Hill Collins. Mentions of Franz Neumann, Herbert Fierst, the Keeney letters, and Sol Adler's call to John Carter Vincent. Table of contents:

Adler, Sol; Albert C. Shire; Joseph Silverman; Arthur W. Stuart; Collins, Henry Hill; [REDACTED]; Gertler, Maynard; Robert S. Lynd; Franz Neumann; Jay Robinson; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Keeney, Mary Jane; Keeney, Philip Olin; Korchien, Jules; Harry George Clement; Ursula Wasserman; Kramer, Charles; Lee, Duncan C.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Long, Norton E.; Magdoff, Harry S.; Edmund Jefferson and Jane Stone; Harold Alfred and Catherine Stone; Alfred and Beatrice Van Tassel; Marks, Herbert Simon; Marsalka, John Paul Milan; Miller, Robert Talbott, III; Morse, Dr. Robert T.; Neal, Fred Warner; Newman, James R.; Nortman, P. Bernard; Perlo, Victor; Plenn, Abel Rolf; Remington, William Walter; Rosenberg, Allan; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; [REDACTED]; Olive Sutton Chuba; [REDACTED]; Lawrence Todd; Taylor, William Henry; Ullman, William Ludwig; Wahl, David R.; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter

Comprehensive (25 page) name/subject index at end. VIEW FILE

Volume 78

October 1946

Bernard Redmont's activities in Rio de Janeiro, contact with William A. Weiland (alias "Montenegro"). Strickland to Ladd memo, substance redacted, re "loose manner in which strictly confidential information is being passed around among officials of the State Department"; states copy being prepared for Secretary of State and Frederick Lyon; handwritten addendum by Hoover suggests writing Assistant Secretary of State Donald S. Russell also. Ladd to Hoover reply, partly blacked out, states letter to Russell "highly inadvisable" because "any correspondence directed to Mr. Russell at the State Department may easily get into the hands of Mr. Panuch or Sam Klaus." Volume ends with 63-page report, most pages blacked out or withheld entirely. Comprehensive name index at end. VIEW FILE

Volume 79

October-November 1946

Volume consists mostly of heavily redacted surveillance memos, interactions, movements of various "Gregory" suspects. Background and contacts of James Roy Newman, mentions Byron S. Miller, William Walter Remington. Gertrude Cameron at Lunning residence, Mrs. Magdoff. Edward Fitzgerald mentions "Strait" [Michael Straight] re job; Bowen Smith contacts Mary Jane Keeney. Memo to Attorney General on Henry Hill Collins, Jr. Mary Jane Keeney and Larry Todd, Washington bureau, TASS News Agency, endorse John Carter Vincent's proposal to cut off aid to China.

"Sandy" [Durward V. Sandifer?] tells Alger Hiss that State Department security officer J. Anthony Panuch is holding up getting people into the department. Hoover directs SAC-Washington to send certain declassified documents to Mr. Bannerman to find out if they came from State, should have been declassified, and whether they were declassified by Woodrow Wilson Borah. Philip Olin Keeney with "Col. Thomas" [Sergei Kournakov]. Bernstein; David Karr-Harry Dexter White connection; I.F. Stone-Owen Lattimore connection. VIEW FILE

Volume 80

November-December 1946

Memo to George E. Allen, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oct. 8, '46. Hoover to Attorney General, Dec. 10, '46 re underground Soviet espionage in U.S. gov't. Mary Jane Keeney contacted Robert Henry Berkov, Sylvia Schimmel; Harold Bellingham talked to Philip Olin (Angus) Keeney; Helen Silvermaster told Gilda Frank Ludwig Ullman might resign; Mary Wheeler told Marian Coleman "they ferret them out wherever they are." Renee told Mary Jane Keeney Martin Bennett would talk on Pauley Report.

Hoover to Frederick B. Lyon re "Sandy" [Durward V. Sandifer?] telling Alger Hiss that Joe Panuch was holding up getting people into State Dept. O.A. Copies of ["lost"] Gregory summary at A.G.'s direction to be sent to Gen. Vaughan, the President, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, and Fred Lyon. Nov. 27, '46 "first indication" to FBI that Robert Miller was asked to leave State Dept. VIEW FILE

Volume 81

December 1946

Memoranda on the Keeneys, whereabouts and contacts, meeting for years with GRU agent Joseph Milton Bernstein. Reference to Oct. 26, '46 report sent to Allen, Lyon. Comment that McInerney opposed general distribution of report on the grounds that it might “blow” the case; Hoover marginalia: “I am surprised at this… It is really intelligent.” Surveillance updates on Gregory suspects, Keeney correspondence, A.B. Weinstein surveillance continued. Much redaction.

Report on Harry Samuel Magdoff to A.G.: Hoover on leaks, earlier summary report sent to then-Secretary of the Treasury Fred Vinson; "lost" copies of summary to be distributed to George Allen for the President, Fred Lyon, Maj. Gen. Stephan J. Chamberlin, Adm. William J. Leahy; possibly also John Snyder, W. Averell Harriman. December 19, 1946 memorandum that Alger Hiss leaving State Department for Carnegie Endowment for World Peace. VIEW FILE

Volume 82

Volume consists entirely of October 21, 1946 report, “Underground Soviet Espionage (NKVD) in Agencies of the United States Government,” 335-page report on information furnished by Elizabeth Bentley (“Gregory”) and follow-up through FBI surveillance concerning the Silvermaster Group, (Lauchlin Currie, Harry Dexter White, etc.), the Perlo Group (Alger Hiss, etc.), and others. Discusses contacts of Mary Jane Keeney with Joseph Bernstein, David Wahl, Maurice Halperin, etc. Also includes intel on H. Bowen Smith, Duncan Lee, Ruth Rifkin, Cedric Belfrage, Bernard Redmont, Peter Rhodes, et al. Table of contents refers to some 56 principal suspects; index relates to hundreds of other people.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Predication

Background of Current Presentations

Background of Gregory

Methods of Operation of Soviet Espionage System

The Silvermaster Group

Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
Helen Witte Silvermaster, was
Schlomer Adler, was
Norman Chandler Bursler
Virginius Frank Coe
Lauchlin Bernard Currie
Bela Gold, was
Sonie Steinman Gold, was
Irving Kaplan
Abraham George Silverman
William Henry Taylor
William Ludwig Ullman
Anatole Boris Volkov
Harry Dexter White

The Perlo Group

Victor Perlo, was
Edward Joseph Fitzgerald
Harold Glasser
Alger Hiss
Charles Kramer, was
Solomon Aaron Lischinsky, was
Harry Samuel Magdoff, was
George W. Perasich
Allan Robert Rosenberg
Donald Niven Wheeler

Miscellaneous Individuals in Washington D. C.

Michael Greenberg, was
Joseph B. Gregg, wa
Maurice Halperin
Julius Joseph Joseph
Duncan Chaplin Lee
Robert Talbott Miller, III
Willard Z. Park
Mary Wolfe Price
Bernard Sidney Redmont
William Walter Remington
Peter Christopher Rhodes
Ruth Rifkin, was
Hazen Edward Sise
Bowen Smith
Helen B. Tenney

Miscellaneous Individuals in New York City and Vicinity

John J. Abt
Cedric Henning Belfrage
Abraham Brothman, was
Ray Elson, wa
Michael Endelman, was
Mildred Price
Lt. Col. John Hazard Reynolds
Dr. Abraham Benedict Weinstein

Miscellaneous Individuals in New York and Washington, D. C. Developed Through Investigation

Joseph Gaer
Mary Jane Keeney
P. Bernard Nortman
Leon Pressman
Elizabeth Semuly
Ursula Irene Wasserman

Soviet Representatives

Fedor Alexsevich Garanin
Anatoli Borisovich Gronov, was
Olga Borisovna Pravdina
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Volume 83

October-December 1946

Routine background and surveillance reports on Arnold Endelman (contact of Irving Kaplan and Murray W. Latimer of the Office of War Information) David R. Wahl, Harry Samuel Magdoff. Correspondence of the Keeneys mentions Ursula Wasserman, Moscow holding up publication of a book on the Holocaust. Correspondence of Inez Munoz, contact of Joseph Gregg, Robert T. Miller III, and Helen Barrett Tenney. Conversation of N. G. Silvermaster about firings at the War Assets Administration, statement by Silvermaster that he had “60 of his own people down there.” Statement by Louis Budenz that Gerhart Eisler attended funeral of Jacob Golos; Elizabeth Bentley could not corroborate. McInerney reported to be “optimistic” about prosecution; suggested naming Bentley as co-conspirator. Tamm memo to Ladd reports AG instructed Vanech to give facts on Victor Perlo and other Treasury “Gregory” subjects to Ed Foley, General Counsel of Treasury; Tamm relayed Hoover’s concern about leaks. 2 pages withheld.

Teletype summarizing surveillance of “Gregory” suspects, mostly talking about job prospects. Harry Magdoff contact with Jay Deiss, Irving Kaplan, mentions George Silverman, Edward Fitzgerald; Mary Jane Keeney with Bowen Smith, concern about Civil Service Commission firings. Philip Keeney contact with the Silvermasters, Victor Perlo with Nathan Witt, DeWitt Eldridge with Doris Plenn, mentions The New Republic, Abel Plenn. Helen Silvermaster contact with Jenny Miller (wife of Robert T. Miller III), mentions Polya Habicht. Greg Silvermaster did not meet with Oscar Lange in New York; contacted Randolph Feltus, Joseph Gaer; Silvermaster said he would contact Lange in DC. Page withheld.

Memo states Lamar Caudle of Treasury wanted to interview Bentley; Oliver Tamm of FBI told him “the informant would probably be killed if his identity were inadvertently disclosed; tells Director Hoover he thinks Criminal Division of Justice is “trying to squirm out” of deciding whether to prosecute. Half-blacked-out teletype relates surveillance of Edward Fitzgerald, Alix Reuther contact with Ursula Wasserman, Mary Jane Keeney. Beadie Magdoff said Harry going to New York.

Letter to Hoover re Eugene M. Kulischer, first page substance blacked out, next 41 pages withheld completely. Routine report on correspondents of Mary Jane Keeney. Memos relate that Ladd denied McInerney a copy of Bentley’s statement; “atrocious exhibition of a complete lack of judgment on Belmont’s part.” Memo states Bentley willing to be interviewed by McInerney; McInerney says Justice will accept full responsibility for ensuing leaks. Update on the Keeneys, substantive information completely redacted, next 3 pages withheld. Memo from Hoover stating that AG telephoned to say that the “Gregory” story was in the hands of the press.

Significantly redacted surveillance update of Gregory suspect contacts and movements: Dick Sasuly with Bela and Sonia Gold, Harold Glasser; Mary Jane Keeney and Alix Reuther, David Wahl with Mary Jane Keeney; Silvermasters, Bowen Smith; Herb Schimmel with Beadie Magdoff, A. G. Silverman with Harry Magdoff, “Alan Rosenberg Special Account” – “the Yugoslav one.” At Silvermasters’, the Lee Pressmans, Mary Jane Keeney, the Robert Millers.

Palmer Weber contact with Harry Magdoff; Herb Schimmel; Beadie Magdoff with Melva Lischinsky; Michael Greenberg, Ben Alper, Ursula Wasserman, Lawrence Todd of TASS, Silvermasters, Ludwig Ullmann, Anatole Volkov, Jack Marsalka, Jenny Miller, N. G. Silvermaster with “the Minister” and Oscar Lange; Norman Chandler Bursler. Memo: Bentley agrees to be interviewed by McInerney Jan 7, 1947. Hoover memo to AG that Gregory story has leaked to press. 2 pages withheld. Partially redacted surveillance update: Irving Kaplan recommends James E. Wood for Foreign Service. Page withheld.

Heavily redacted memo on Alger Hiss, disarmament, atomic energy. IPR -- Mortimer Graves, Bob Barnett, Robert Zimler of UNRRA. Memo on G. Perazich, Ernest Weisman, all substantive information blacked out. Mostly redacted memo denying State Department information on “Gregory” suspects not currently (or ever) employed there. Nine pages withheld. Mostly redacted surveillance update. Tamm memo tells Hoover he relayed to Attorney General Clark Hoover’s concern lest “Gregory” case “collapse and become another Jaffe [Amerasia] case.” Heavily blacked out surveillance update. Mostly redacted document on Korchien. No index or table of contents. VIEW FILE

Volume 84

November 1946

Report: Maynard Gertler “has in his possession numerous restricted reports of the State Department”; “[Eugene] Kulischer had in his possession classified OSS reports.” Volume contains list of documents found. Extensive contacts of the “Gregory” suspects. Comprehensive name index at end, table of contents as follows:

Bassie, V. Lewis; Collins, Henry Hill, Jr.; Gertler Maynard; Greenberg, Michael; Keeney, Mary Jane and Philip Olin; Kramer, Charles; Kulischer, Eugene M.; Lewis, Alexandra Pavlovina; Long, Norton E.; Magdoff, Harry Samuel; Marks, Herbert Simon; Miller, Robert Talbott; Newman, James R.; Perlo, Victor; Plenn, Abel Rolf; Remington, William Walter; Rifkin, Ruth Sarah; Rips, Serge; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Schluter, Claymer; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; [TWO NAMES REDACTED]; Turner, Sarah; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 85

November 1946

More background and surveillance updates from September and October ’46 on contacts of “Gregory” suspects. Name index at end, with table of contents as follows:

Bassie, V. Lewis; Dunaway, Philip N.; Fitzgerald, Edward; Gertler Maynard; Jack Becker; Walter Murrow Rudolph; John di Francis; Harold Tatsumi Oshima; Glasser, Harold; Keeney, Mary Jane and Philip Olin; Kramer, Charles; Latimer, Murray Webb; Alice M. Demerjian; Lee, Duncan C.; Lischinsky, Solomon Aaron; Magdoff, Harry Samuel; Edmund J. and Jane Sanford Stone; Alfred J. and Beatrice Van Tassel; Marks, Herbert Simon; Newman, James R.; Older, Andrew H. and Julia S.; Park, Willard Z.; Perazich, George; Perlo, Victor; Plenn, Abel Rolf; Redmont, Bernard S.; Rosenberg, Allan R.; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Silverman, Joseph; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; [REDACTED]; Lawrence Todd; Samuel Krafsur; [REDACTED]; Olive S. Chuba; Jean Montgomery; Taylor William; Wahl, David R.; Ware, Henry Holdship; Wasserman, Ursula; Wheeler, Donald Niven; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 86

December 1946

Heavily redacted report on Fred Neal, Abraham Weinstein. Bakground and surveillance updates from first two weeks of November ’46 of “Gregory” suspects. Name index at end, table of contents as follows:

Collins, Henry Hill, Jr,; Dunaway, Philip O.; Fitzgerald, Edward; Gold, Bela and Sonia; Green, Earl Preston; Hiss, Alger; Kaplan, Irving; Latimer, Murray Webb; Lewis, Alexandra Pavlovina; Magdoff, Harry Samuel; Marsalka, John Paul Milan; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Neal, Fred Warner; Plenn, Abel Rolf; Rosenberg, Allan Robert; Norman S. Altman; Paul Krueger; Arnold Levy; Harry N. Plotkin; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Silverman, Abraham George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; Smith, H. Bowen; Remington, William Walter; Wahl, David R.; Wheeler, Donald; White, Harry Dexter VIEW FILE

Volume 87

January 1947

Often heavily redacted Bureau memos and teletypes updating surveillance of “Gregory” people. Memo recounting Peyton Ford of the Justice Department accusing the FBI of tapping his phone. Section on David Wahl blacked out. Teletype: Helen Tenney “suffering from a severe psychosis.” Surveillance report on Philip Olin Keeney, much redacted, three pages withheld. Photostatic copies of Keeney correspondence, two pages withheld. Press clipping on “Gregory” case. Distribution list of Silvermaster report. Keeney correspondence with persons in Russia. Background of Maynard Gertler. Teletype surveillance update on Mary Jane Keeney, contact with Les Klepper, Russ Nixon; Max Lowenthal with Charles Kramer re “further efforts to destroy Brewster sub committee”; “delay”; “weaken Taft, Wherry, etc.”; “erasing of Committee”; “eliminating that report”; “Meander report”; “principal concern of Lowenthal and Dave Wahl.” More partly redacted surveillance reports, Marian Bachrach. Page withheld.

Report that Gen. Leslie Groves of Manhattan Engineer District is source of “Gregory” leak. Unclear how he found out about case. Memo: Justice asked FBI to check on current Federal government employment status of 15 “Gregory” suspects; Bureau memo replies that check will be confined to review of FBI records. Silvermaster handwriting sample. Teletype on Ursula Wasserman, 2 pages withheld, Alger Hiss surveillance update, partly blacked out. Memo, completely blacked out, except for Hoover’s handwritten note accusing McInerney of being the leaker. This followed by memo with another Hoover addendum: “If they would eliminate James McInerney from the case I believe the leaks might stop.” Memo that Treasury Secretary Snyder said a congressman told him he understood “from the FBI” there were subversives in the department; wanted copy of report. Reply from Hoover that Bureau had not talked to any congressman about case. Update on Harry Magdoff, partially blacked out; Remington update, partly blacked out, last page withheld. No index or table of contents. VIEW FILE

Volume 88

December 1946

Summary report of surveillance of “Gregory” suspects for last two weeks of November ’46. Name index at end and table of contents as follows:

Collins, Henry Hill. Jr.; Fitzgerald, Edward; Gertler, Maynard; Glasser Harold; Gold, Bela and Sonia; Keeney, Mary Jane and Philip Olin; “Colonel Thomas”; Joseph Bernstein; George Faxon; Kulischer, Eugene M.; Charles P. Kindleberger; Magdoff, Harry Samuel; Miller, Robert Talbott III; Munoz, Inez; Newman, James R.; Older, Julia S.; Perazich, George; Perlo, Victor; Plenn, Abel Rolf; Remington, William Walter; Rosenberg, Allan Robert; Sasuly, Elizabeth; Silverman, A. George; Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory; Wahl, David Ralph; Wheeler, Donald Niven VIEW FILE

Volume 89

December 1946-January 1947

Partially redacted surveillance updates on Gregory suspects. Features the Keeneys, Charles Kramer, Allan Rosenberg, Harry Magdoff, Sol Lischinsky, Herb Schimmel, Robert Miller, Hamilton Robinson, Jack Marsalka, Charles R. Kindleberger, Joseph Gregg, Ruth Seegar, Carl Green, Eleanor Lattimore, Harold Glasser, Bowen Smith, “political problem” of “Rankin Committee and Denny Committee,” Kilgore, David Wahl, Adamson Report on Un-American Activities, Clark Foreman, Selden Manafee, Owen Lattimore, Anne Gertler, Barney Leroy (“all of the nice people”). This followed by redaction. A. G. Silverman, Isadore Salkind, Silvermasters, Eleanor Dreisen, Bruce Waybur, the Sasulys, Ludwig Ullmann, Norman Bursler, Joseph Friedman, more redaction, David Karr, Harry Dexter White, Edward Fitzgerald, Alger Hiss, Raymond Swing, Veet Bessie, Abel Plenn, Louis Adamic, Plenn: “Why don’t they discuss Lenin?” Phil Dunaway, Norman Ness, Madeline Karr, Drew Pearson, Ruth Beecroft, Russell Nixon.

Memos: McInerney wants to talk to FBI field agents; Hoover declines. Bentley seeking a lawyer to sue USSSC; Tamm suggests Tom Donegan. AG says “about 25” cases in government. Seven pages withheld. Kulischer: 3 pages withheld. Joseph B. Gregg: all substantive information blacked out. Duncan Lee, Harry Magdoff, A. Brothman, Julius Korchien, Harry Dexter White, much redacted, 2 pages withheld, Louis Budenz, Louis Adamic, copy of 1945 Bentley interview. Alger Hiss greatly pleased by the firing of Joe Panuch, and his replacement by Peurifoy. Mary and Mildred Price, Michael Greenberg, Lauchlin Currie. Frederick Vanderbilt Field. No index or table of contents. VIEW FILE

Volume 90

December 1946

Wiretap and other surveillance updates from October 1946, focused on "Gregory" suspects and contacts in New York City. Miscellaneous contacts of Cedric Belfrage with Louis Fischer, Claude Williams (concerning People's Institute of Applied Religion), Arthur Upham Pope, Others. Activities of Abraham Brothman, Jules Korchien. Brothman contact with Russians. Extensive biographical and other data on Bentley contact (Mrs.) Ray Elson. Background on Zalmond Franklin, contact of Charles Kramer.

Further contact of Harry Magdoff with Edward Fitzgerald, biographical other data on Mrs. Magdoff. Discussion of Inez Munoz and the Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign. Background data on Nathan Witt. Discussion of Herbert Hewlett, Agnes Smedley, Manuel Fox, C. B. Baldwin, Gregory Silvermaster and others linked to Hewlett. Extensive discussion of Dr. Abraham Weinstein (dentist), and his list of patients, including Joseph Gregg, Peter Rhodes, Ralph Bowman, Isabel Bernay, Ray Elson, Bernard Nortman, others. Name index at end and table of contents as follows:

Cedric Henning Belfrage, Abraham Brothman, Jules Korchien, Ursula Wasserman, Henry Hill Collins, Ray Elson, Michael Endelman, Edward Joseph Fitzgerald, Harold Glasser, Bela and Sonia Gold, Michael Greenberg, Confidential Informant Gregory, Maurice Halperin, Julius Joseph Joseph, Mary Jane Keeney, Charles Kramer, Harry Magdoff, Inez Munoz, Fred W. Neal, Elizabeth Sasuly, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, [REDACTED], Samuel Krafsur, Mrs. D.B. Pond, Abraham Benedict Weinstein, Harry Dexter White VIEW FILE

Volume 91

November-December 1946

Summary of surveillance in New York City involving various Bentley contacts and related suspects developed in the investigation. Among the individuals covered are Cedric Belfrage, Michael Greenberg, Charles Kramer, Harry Magdoff, Victor Perlo, and N. G. Silvermaster. As in most instances, the activities recorded are of routine nature, but show the extensive interconnections of the various individuals with one another.

Of particular note in this respect, and the longest section, is the report on Mary Jane and Philip Keeney, then visiting in New York. The Keeneys' contacts included Joseph Bernstein, Frederick Field, Doxey Wilkerson, Ursula Wasserman, Maurice Halperin, Jules Korchien and Michael Nagles. Also provided in this section is a brief summary of Joseph Bernstein's involvement in the Amerasia case and his contacts with Amerasia editor Philip Jaffe.

Likewise included in this volume are the contacts of Nathan G. Silvermaster in New York—Henrietta Klotz (one time secretary to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau), Palmer Weber, and Sava Kosanovic, ambassador to the U.S. from the Tito government of Yugoslavia. Indications also that Silvermaster was to meet "Lange," most probably Oskar Lange, representing the Communist regime in Poland. Extensive name index at end. Table of contents as follows:

Cedric Belfrage, Abraham Brothman, Ursula Wasserman, Ray Elson, Arnold Endelman, Michael Greenberg, Confidential Informant Gregory, Mary Jane Keeney, Philip O. Keeney, Charles Kramer, Harry Magdoff, Victor Perlo, William Remington, Allan Rosenberg, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Abraham Benedict Weinstein, Donald Wheeler VIEW FILE

Volume 92

January 1947

Miscellaneous memos and brief bios of subjects, plus surveillance summaries in selected cases. Numerous background checks and further tracking of interconnections among the subjects, memoranda dealing with Helen Scott and her contacts with Bernard and Joan Redmont and William Remington, all subjects of Bureau investigation. Correspondence and memos between Josephine T. Adams and the Keeneys, reflecting Adams' self-reported contacts with the Roosevelt White House prior to the death of FDR, and also with Communist Party chief Earl Browder.

Volume includes an extended wrap-up on Duncan C. Lee, formerly of OSS, Bentley's allegations concerning him, his contacts with Donald Wheeler and Mary Price, and his employment by the law firm of Thomas Corcoran. Memos concerning contacts of the Keeneys with a Max Weisman, his contacts in turn with Philip Dunaway and Dorothy Todd, wife of TASS correspondent Larry Todd. Brief memos concerning Norman Bursler, Harold Glasser, Sol Lischinsky, Richard Watt, others. Name index following this section. Thereafter, mention of former OWI employees Inez Munoz and Julia Older, memo at end concerning contacts of Michael Greenberg with Michael Straight and T.A. Bisson. VIEW FILE

Volume 93

February 1947

Volume opens with several Bureau memoranda concerning leaks of information to the press corps and FBI displeasure in this respect with members of the Justice Department. Hoover memo expressing doubts about successful prosecution and statement that, because of leaks by the Department, "there is little which can be expected from any action now." Further Hoover memo of February 4, 1947, saying "investigative reports in this case would not be furnished to the Criminal Division [of Justice] because of the possibility that some of the material therein would be publicized."

Also included are wrap-up memos on Gregory cases Bernard Nortman and Bernard Redmont and detailed questions from Justice to the FBI concerning numerous Bentley suspects, apparently with an eye to prosecution. Many heavily redacted memos concerning contacts of Mary Jane Keeney, Harold Glasser, Helen Tenney, Solomon Adler. Lengthy memo from FBI's Edward Scheidt to Hoover, discussing question of Bentley's credibility, questions raised by Justice, an interview with Bentley by Justice official James McInerney, Bureau answer to previous questions.

Further memoranda concerning Lauchlin Currie, Julius Joseph, N. G. Silvermaster, the Keeneys, William Weiland. Much of Keeney section and that on Weiland heavily redacted. Memo concerning Bentley contacts with Robert Miller, Joseph Gregg, Maurice Halperin, Willard Park; her statement that Minter Wood and Woodrow Borah, in contact with this group, were not to her knowledge CP members or espionage sources. Various heavily redacted memos concerning Bela Gold, Willard Park, William Henry Taylor, Charles Kramer, Edward Fitzgerald, others.

Several memos concerning internal problems in executive departments, including a "lost" security report at the Treasury and a Hoover memo of February 19, expressing concern about turnover in the security division of the State Department, whereby Hamilton Robinson replaced Frederick Lyon. Further updates on the contacts of the Keeneys, including the Silvermasters, [John] Marsalka, Stanley Graze, Carl Green, Maynard Gertler, and Bowen Smith. Mary Jane Keeney gives favorable loyalty reference on Lois Carlisle. Carl Marzani is in contact with Allan Rosenberg. Summaries provided by the Bureau concerning its reports of February 21 and October 21, 1946. No table of contents or index. VIEW FILE

Volume 94

Early 1947 wrap-up on surveillances from December 1946

Multifarious reports, with many pages redacted or withdrawn, concerning numerous Bentley people and related cases. Among the subjects profiled are Henry Collins and his wife, Susan B. Anthony II, Philip Dunaway, the Keeneys, David Wahl, Bela and Sonia Gold, others. Keeney contacts again numerous, including not only Wahl and Dunaway, but Sylvia Schimmel, Ben Alper, Larry and Dorothy Todd, Alix Reuther of the War Department, Daniel Melcher, Alice Demerjian, N