William Dodd (Congressional candidate)
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William E. Dodd, Jr. was the son of William Dodd, United States Ambassador to Germany 1933-1937, and brother of Martha Dodd. He was also a member of the Popular Front and, allegedly, a Soviet spy. In 1938, the KGB contributed $1000 towards Dodd's unsuccessful attempt to win a U.S. Congressional seat as a Democratic party candidate.
During World War II Dodd worked for a time in the Office of War Information. In 1944 the New York office of Soviet intelligence made a request to Moscow that he take a job with TASS, the Soviet information bureau. According to a Venona decrypt, Dodd had, in the past, supplied information to Soviet intelligence from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
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- Martin Dies statement, Congressional Record (1 February 1943), 504–516.
- Kerr Commission analysis of evidence in regard to William Dodd, analysis of evidence on Watson and Dodd, 21 April 1943, Report of the Kerr Commission, 14 May 1943, both in box 856, Clinton Anderson papers, Library of Congress.
- William Dodd, Jr., testimony, 5 April 1943, Investigations of Un-American Propaganda activities in the United States, U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Special Committee on Un-American Activities, 78th Cong., 1st sess., vol. 7, 3366–3382.
- Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, The Secret World of American Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999).
