Philip Keeney

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Philip Keeney (1891-1962), together with his wife, Mary Jane Keeney, were fired from the University Of Montana in 1937 for alleged subversive activity. By 1941 Keeney working at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. After the United States became involved in World War II, Keeney worked in the Office of the Coordinator of Information. The Coordinators Office was later transferred to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). A large portion of the OSS used the Library of Congress for space during that time. Jacob Golos met with Keeney in the Library of Congress, however Keeney was allegedly in the employ of Soviet Military Intelligence GRU by then. Joseph Milton Bernstein was Keeney's alleged contact with the GRU. In 1945 Keeney went to Tokyo and worked on General Douglas MacArthur's staff.

Keeney was allegedly transferred from the GRU to the KGB in 1945. Philip Keeney's code name with the GRU and Soviet intelligence, and in the Venona project, is "Bredan".

In later years Keeney was convicted of contempt of Congress. Afterward, Keeney and his wife reportedly opened a theatre in Greenwich Village called Club Cinema to air mostly foreign-language titles, with occasional live performances. He died in 1962 at the age of seventy-one.

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John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999)
Rosalee McReynolds, The Progressive Librarians Council and Its Founders http://www.libr.org/pl/2_McReynolds.html