Maurice Halperin secretly became a member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) sometime in the 1930's. In the late summer of 1941 Halperin went to work in the Office of the Coordinator of Information (later the Office of Strategic Services research division where he later became head of the Latin American research and analysis division and special assistant to the director of the OSS, Duncan Lee. The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. ... The Office of Strategic Services was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime (but not direct) precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency. ... Duncan Chaplin Lee, descendant of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and protégé and trusted aide to Office of Strategic Services chief William J. Donovan, who became the NKVD’s most senior source in American intelligence. ...

Halperin provided to Soviet intelligence through the Golos network of spies a large quantity of sensitive U. S. diplomatic dispatches, including information on reports from Ambassador John Winant in London about the internal stance of the Polish government in exile toward negotiations with Stalin, Turkey's policy toward Romania, State Department instructions to the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, U.S. embassy reports about Morocco, reports on on the U.S. government relationship with competing French groups and personalities in exile, reports of peace feelers fromn dissident Germans passed to the Vatican, U.S. perceptions of Tito's activities in Yugoslavia, and discussions between the greek government and the United Staes regarding Soviet ambitions in the Balkans. Halperin also distorted OSS reports with false information to reflect Soviet and CPUSA views. The Government of the Polish Republic in exile maintained a continuous existence in exile from the time of the German occupation of Poland in September 1939 until the end of the Communist rule in Poland in 1990. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ... Josip Broz Tito (May 7, 1892 - May 4, 1980) was the ruler of Yugoslavia between the end of World War II and his death in 1980. ... The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. ...

After the OSS was dissolved in 1945 Halperin transferred to the United States Department of State and worked as an advisor to Secretary of State Dean Acheson on Latin American affairs. Halperin was an advisor to the United Nations at the first conference at San Francisco. He resigned from the State Department in 1946. The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ...

In 1953 Maurice Halperin was called before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to defend himself on charges of espionage. Halperin denied the charges and fled to Mexico and then, to avoid extradition, to Moscow. Among the friends he made there were British spy Donald Maclean and Cuban revolutionary leader Che Guevara. Disenchanted with socialism in the Soviet Union, he accepted Guevara's invitation to come to Havana in 1962. There he worked for the Castro government for five years before political tension forced him to leave for Vancouver, Canada. Sir Donald Maclean (1864-1932) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Bath (1906-1910), Peebles and Selkirk (1910-1918), Peebles and South Midlothian (1918-1922), and Northern Division of Cornwall (1929-1932) and served as President of the Board of Education (1931-1932). ... Che Guevara Dr. Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928¹ – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader. ... Castro can refer to: Fidel Castro Raúl Castro Fidels younger brother Ramon Castro Fidels older brother Juana Castro Fidels sister The Castro, a famous gay-oriented neighborhood in San Francisco, California Castro Street, the primary street in that neighborhood Castro, an Italian city destroyed in 1649 Castro...

Halperin's code name in Soviet intelligence and in the Venona project is "Hare". The VENONA project was a long-running and highly secret collaboration between the United States intelligence agencies and the United Kingdoms MI5 that involved the cryptanalysis of Soviet messages. ...

Sources

• Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Harvey (2000). Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300084625.
• Kirschner, Don S. Cold War Exile: The Unclosed Case of Maurice Halperin' Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1995

External link

• Louis Budenz, Techniques of Communism: INVADING EDUCATION (http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/educatio.htm)
• X-2 (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/oss/art07.htm)
• FBI Venona FOIA, p. 53 (http://foia.fbi.gov/venona/venona.pdf)