Allan Rosenberg (spy)

Allan Robert Rosenberg (April 21, 1909 April 1, 1991) was a 20th-century American attorney and civil servant, accused as a Soviet spy by Elizabeth Bentley and listed under Party name "Roy, code names "Roza" in the VENONA Papers and code name "Sid" in the Vasilliev Papers.[1][2]

Ware Group

Nathan Witt had succeeded Harold Ware as leader of the underground Ware Group of Soviet spies upon Ware's death in 1935, while Whittaker Chambers oversaw the group and couriered Government documents it obtained from Washington to New York.[3][4]

In 1936, Rosenberg was working "as an unpaid volunteer" for the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee, in fact a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Education and Labor (where Ware Group member John Abt worked); Charles Kramer and Charles Flato (another "secret communist") would join them there.[5][6][7]

In 1937, he transferred briefly to the Railroad Retirement Board and then in April 1937 joined the National Labor Relations Board through 1941 at the suggestion of Max Lowenthal.[8] There, Charles Kramer joined him the following year. That same year, he also joined the National Lawyers Guild (where he was a member as a late as 1956 during his second appearance before HUAC).[5]

Witt placed Rosenberg in charge of a group of six to eight attorneys during a Congressional investigation into the questionable activities of the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) in 1938 and 1939.

Perlo Group

In 1941, Rosenberg transferred from the NRLB to the Board of Economic Warfare (or Office of Economic Warfare).[5]

"A couple of years later," he joined the Foreign Economic Administration (FEA).[5]

Rosenberg was a friend of Charles Kramer (the only member of the Ware Group known to continue on into the Perlo Group). Rosenberg was also an amateur photographer with a dark room in his home.[9]

Rosenberg was a member of the Perlo group of Soviet spies during World War II.

In November 1943, Earl Browder turned control of the group over to Jacob Golos two months before his death and it subsequently was taken over by Elizabeth Bentley.

While employed as the Chief of the Economic Institution Staff for the Foreign Economic Administration, Rosenberg allegedly supplied the Soviet Union with voluminous observations, recommendations, plans and proposals made by various government officials concerning the handling of postwar Germany. He also worked on the Board of Economic Warfare since 1941. Rosenberg's name appears in clear text in a December 1944 Venona decrypt as the source of a State Department memo. Rosenberg appears in the Venona project under his real name.

In April 1951, Rosenberg argued Anti-Fascist Committee v. McGrath before the U.S. Supreme Court.[10]

Testimony

In June 23, 1952, and again on February 21, 1956, Rosenberg testified in Congress before HUAC. Counsel in 1952 was David Scribner, counsel in 1956 Benjamin Loring Young.[8][5][11]

VENONA Papers

Rosenberg's name appears without cover in Venona but with a cryptonym in the Gorsky Memo.[12]

See also

References

  1. Haynes, John Earl (April 2009). "Cover Name, Cryptonym, Pseudonym, and Real Name Index: A Research Historian's Working Reference". Washington: John Earl Haynes. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  2. Vassiliev, Alexander. "Black Notebook" (PDF). Wilson Center. p. 78. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  3. Chambers, Whittaker (May 1952). Witness. New York: Random House. pp. 799 (total). LCCN 52005149.
  4. Berle, Adolf A. (2 September 1938). "Berle Notes". Washington: John Earl Haynes. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Hearings". Washington: US GPO. 1956. pp. 3252 (Joseph Robison), 3288–3289 (David Rein), 3300–3307 (Rosenberg), 3318 (Ruth Weyand Perry), 3320 (Weyand), 3325 (Weyand), 3329 (Weyand), 3362 (Jacob Krug). Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  6. Cashman, Sean Dennis (1998). America Ascendant: From Theodore Roosevelt to FDR in the Century of American Power, 1901-1945. New York: NYU Press. p. 332. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  7. Haynes, John Earl; Klehr, Harvey; Igorevich, Fridrikh (1996). The Secret World of American Communism. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 98. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  8. 1 2 Hearings of the United States Congress - House Committee on Un-American Activities. US GPO. 1952. p. 3435. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  9. Haynes, John Earl; Klehr, Harvey; Vasilliev, Alexander (2009). Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 276 (friendship), 284 (appearances). Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  10. "Anti-Fascist Committee v. McGrath". Washington: Find Law. 30 April 1951. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  11. Haynes, John Earl (2000). Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 117, 118, 119, 363, 399, 409 (fn5) (testimony), 422 (fn29). Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  12. Haynes, John Earl (27 October 2005). "Russian Archival Identification of Real Names Behind Cover Names in VENONA". Washington: John Earl Haynes. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  • Vassiliev, Alexander (2003), Alexander Vassiliev’s Notes on Anatoly Gorsky’s December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks, retrieved 2012-04-21
  • Anti-Fascist Committee v. McGrath (1951) Allan R. Rosenberg argued the cause before the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • 2 Lawyers Balk at Query on Red Cell Affiliations: Accused by Herbert Fuchs, Ex-NLRB Employees Use 5th Amendment at House Probe 21 February 1956
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