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The VENONA Project has revealed that Berger was approached by the KGB after a lead by Samuel Krafsur.

In a KGB message to Moscow in 1945, he is described as a progressive and as well disposed toward the Soviet Union.

According to Krafsur, Berger had expressed a wish to live in the USSR and maintained contacts with the Communist Party USA.

There is no indication, however, that he was actually recruited as an agent.

The fact that he quit government work soon afterwards may indicate that the plans to recruit him came to nothing, or even that he wished to avoid involvement in espionage.