Philip Levy
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Philip Levy was an American Communist who is alleged by Venona Project files to have worked closely with Leon Josephson in espionage activity on behalf of Soviet intelligence. Levy allegedly allowed the use of his home as a place to store documents purloined by the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) secret appartus from people critical of the party.
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- Klehr, Haynes, and Firsov, The Secret World of American Communism, 131–132.
- “Comintern Apparatus Summary Report,” 15 December 1944, FBI Comintern Apparatus file (FBI file 100-103581), serial 3702.
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 377, 470.