Maurice Halperin

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Maurice Hyman Halperin (1906-February 9, 1995) was an American writer, professor, diplomat, and Soviet intelligence source (NKVD code name "Hare").

## Contents

* 1 Biography
* 2 See also
* 3 Publications
* 4 References
* 5 Sources
* 6 External links

## Biography[edit]

Halperin studied Latin American issues, and in 1935 traveled to Cuba with the League of American Writers to investigate possible human rights abuses. Sometime during this period, Halperin joined the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA). In the late summer of 1941, Halperin went to work in the Office of the Coordinator of Information which later became the Research Division of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), itself the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. Halperin became head of the Latin American Research and Analysis Division, reporting to Duncan Lee, Special Assistant to OSS Director William J. Donovan. During this period, he became an espionage agent and agreed to provide intelligence for Joseph Stalin's ruthless overseas intelligence service and secret police, the NKVD. Halperin's NKVD code name was 'Hare', and he became a member of the Golos spy network operated by the NKVD's chief of American espionage operations Gaik Ovakimian.

With access to the OSS cable room, Halperin could secure copies of secret U.S. reports from any part of the world. Through the Golos spy network, Halperin provided Soviet intelligence with a large quantity of sensitive U. S. diplomatic dispatches, including reports from Ambassador John Winant in London on the position of the Polish government-in-exile towards negotiations with Stalin, Turkey's foreign policy toward Romania, the State Department's instructions to the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, the U.S. embassy in Morocco's reports on that country's government, reports on the U.S. government's relationship with Vichy and Free French factions and persons in exile, reports of peace feelers from dissident Germans passed to the Vatican, U.S. attitudes towards of Tito's Communist Front activities in Yugoslavia, and discussions between the Greek government and the United States regarding Soviet ambitions in the Balkans. Halperin also distorted OSS reports with false information in order to reflect the views of Stalin, the Soviet Union, and the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA).

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 to take the position of chair of Latin American studies at Boston University.

In 1953, after Soviet cables were secretly decrypted by U.S. counter-intelligence, Maurice Halperin was called before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to defend himself on charges of espionage. Halperin denied the charges, but nevertheless fled to Mexico and then, to avoid extradition, to the Soviet Union. Among the friends he made there was the British traitor Donald Maclean as well as Cuban revolutionary leader Che Guevara.

Disenchanted with communism in the Soviet Union, Halperin accepted Guevara's invitation to come to Havana in 1962. There he worked for the Castro government for five years before political tensions forced him to leave for Vancouver, Canada. He then became a political science professor at Simon Fraser University, and wrote several books critical of Castro's government and the socio-political situation in Cuba.

After Halperin's death, the release of the Venona project decryptions of coded Soviet cables, as well as information gleaned from Soviet KGB archives, revealed that Halperin was involved in espionage activities on behalf of the Soviet Union while serving in an official capacity with the United States government.[1][2][3]

## See also[edit]

* Joseph Stalin
* NKVD
* Venona project

## Publications[edit]

* Maurice Halperin, "Return to Havana". Vanderbilt University Press, Feb 1, 1994. ISBN 0-8265-1250-X
* Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-300-08462-5.
* Peake, Hayden B., OSS and the Venona Decrypts: Intelligence and National Security (Great Britain) 12, no.3 (July 1997): 14–34.
* CIA Publications, The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency, no date.
* Kirschner, Don S.,Cold War Exile: The Unclosed Case of Maurice Halperin Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1995

## References[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page45.html,
2. ↑ Schecter, Jerrold and Leona, Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History, Potomac Press, 2002
3. ↑ Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press, 2000

## Sources[edit]

* Alexander Vassiliev's notes from KGB Archival Records
* Haynes, John E. and Klehr, Harvey, In Denial: Historians, Communism, & Espionage, Encounter Press (2003)
* Schecter, Jerrold and Leona, Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History, Potomac Press, 2002
* Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Harvey Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-300-08462-5 (ed. available via books.google)
* Peake, Hayden B. OSS and the Venona Decrypts. Intelligence and National Security (Great Britain) 12, no.3 (July 1997): 14–34.
* CIA Publications, The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency, no date.
* Kirschner, Don S. Cold War Exile: The Unclosed Case of Maurice Halperin Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1995
* The Peak obituary
* Warner, Michael, The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency Chapter: X-2. Central Intelligence Agency Publications (2000). "Research & Analysis Latin America specialist Maurice Halperin, nevertheless passed information to Moscow."
* Chairman's Forward, Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy (1997)
* Moynihan Commssion on Government Secrecy, Appendix A, 7. The Cold War (1997)

## External links[edit]

* Louis Budenz, Techniques of Communism: INVADING EDUCATION
* X-2
* FBI Venona FOIA, p. 53

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