Charles Kramer

Charles Kramer, originally Charles Krevitsky was an economist for who worked for four congressional committees in his career as a Soviet spy. Kramer worked for four congressional committees while being a member of the Washington D.C. based Perlo group of Soviet spies during the 1940's.

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Fellow members of the CPUSA underground assisted him in obtaining all his jobs. John Abt hired him for the Senate Civil Liberties Subcommittee (the LaFollette Committee). Nathan Witt helped him get a job within the Department of Labor National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) before World War II. Victor Perlo signed Kramer's job performance rating at the Office of Price Administration (OPA) during the war and was listed as a job reference. Kramer took time off in 1944 to work for the Democratic National Committee and in 1946 to assist the reelection campaign of California Democratic representative Ellis Patterson, who worked with the CPUSA since the 1930s. Kramer also worked for the United States Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization (the Kilgore Committeehttp://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000176) and the Senate Subcommittee on on Wartime Health and Education during the war; and the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee after the war.

Related Topics:
CPUSA - John Abt - LaFollette Committee - Nathan Witt - Department of Labor - National Labor Relations Board - World War II - Victor Perlo - Office of Price Administration - Democratic National Committee - Ellis Patterson - United States Senate

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Kramer provided information to the Soviets from his position as staff member of the Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization on a dispute among American policy makers concerning the Comité National Français, or Free French National Committee of Charles de Gaulle and an internal U.S. government investigation of German corportate links to American companies. Kramer also passed information from the Democratic National Committee about President Truman's likely appointments in the State Department and views of Truman by various Senators.

Related Topics:
Policy makers - Comité National Français - Charles de Gaulle - President Truman

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