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Inserted statement of Nicholas Dozenberg, hearings 8 November 1949, U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities, 81st Cong., 1st and 2d session.

• “Comintern Apparatus Summary Report,” 15 December 1944, FBI Comintern Apparatus file (FBI file 100-103581), serial 3702.
• John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 381, 472.