Nathan Gregory Silvermaster ( November 27, 1898 – October 7, 1964 ), an economist with the United States War Production Board ( WPB ) during World War II, was the head of a large ring of Communist spies in the U. S. government.

In 1945, former NKVD courier Elizabeth Bentley told investigators of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Kaplan was " a dues-paying Communist Party member " who had formerly been associated with the Perlo group of Soviet spies, later moving to the Silvermaster group.

Silverman knew Greg Silvermaster to be a conduit for Communist Party USA General secretary, Earl Browder.

At the War Production Board, Silvermaster was able to provide the Soviet Union with a large amount of data on arms, aircraft, and shipping production.

In June 1943, Silvermaster sent a War Production Board report on arms production in the United States, including bombers, pursuit planes, tanks, propelled guns, howitzers, radar and submarines, sub chasers, and the like, to Soviet intelligence.

Then, in December 1944, the New York MGB office cabled another Silvermaster report stating: "( Silvermaster ) has sent us a 50-page Top Secret War Production Board report ... on arms production in the U. S ."

Sonia Steinman Gold has been alleged to be part of the Silvermaster spy ring in Washington D. C., spying for the Soviet Union during World War II.

She said she learned from Nathan Gregory Silvermaster that Kaplan was a source of Information in the War Production Board.

After her divorce his mother married Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, head of the Silvermaster group who spied for the Soviet Union during World War II.

FBI Silvermaster group file, Part 2c, p. 182 ( p. 3 in PDF format ).</ br > "..... Magdoff, who had just returned from a period of approximately six months hospitalization, expected to return to the War Production Board but was uncertain as to what specifically he could be able to furnish ....."

Akhmerov said Kramer and Fitzgerald knew Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, whose cover name was later changed to " Robert ".

* FBI Silvermaster File, 26 December 1945, serial 356, Robert Miller background memo, Rodman section.

When security concerns arose around Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, White protected him in his sensitive position at the Board of Economic Warfare.

In 1948, former NKVD courier Elizabeth Bentley, testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee, mentioned Coe, whom she remembered as one of several important Treasury officials who passed on information to Silvermaster.

* Report of 11 January 1944, FBI Silvermaster File, serial 3378.

Many suspects were surveilled, but never prosecuted and the investigations dropped, as can been seen in the FBI Silvermaster Files.

Conservative critics contend that revelations such as the Venona project decryptions and the FBI Silvermaster File at least mute if not outright refute the charge that red-baiting in general was unjustified.

* Cedric Belfrage interview, 8 June 1947, FBI Silvermaster file, serial 2522, pgs.

* Cedric Belfrage statement, 3 June 1947, FBI Silvermaster file, serial 2583, pgs.

On November 7, 1945, defecting Soviet espionage courier Elizabeth Bentley told investigators of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) that in late 1942 or early 1943 she learned from Soviet spies Nathan Gregory Silvermaster and Ludwig Ullmann that one source of the government documents they were photographing and passing on to her and NKVD spymaster Jacob Golos was Harry Dexter White.

Helen Silvermaster was associated with this group.

There he met Greg and Helen Silvermaster.

He was “ chief photographer of stolen government documents for the Silvermaster espionage ring ” while a Major in the Material and Services Division of the Army Air Corps.

In the basement of the Silvermaster and Ullmann home, Ullmann maintained a photographic darkroom for copying and processing stolen documents and reducing them to microfilm.

Silvermaster was born of a Jewish family in Odessa, Russia ( present-day Odessa, Ukraine ) in 1898.

While nominally remaining on the employment rolls of the Farm Security Administration, Silvermaster arranged in 1942 to be detailed to the Board of Economic Warfare.

Silvermaster subsequently received two promotions and pay raises.

Silvermaster was associated with Harry Dexter White at the Bretton Woods conference, and his testimony before the US Senate Internal Security Subcommittee covers " 175 pages of interrogation and exhibits " regarding his espionage activities in the U. S.

Golos's legacy can also be read about under Harry Dexter White, Nathan G. Silvermaster and Elizabeth Bentley.

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