Simon Rosenberg (engineer)

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Simon Rosenberg was a naturalized American from Poland and worked as an engineer in the early 1930s for Amtorg (American Trading Corporation), the agent-mediator of foreign trade transactions between the United States the Soviet Union. Simon Rosenberg was allegedly involved in industrial espionage and was a contact for Gaik Ovakimian, the KGB Illegal Officer.

[edit] References

  • “The Shameful Years: Thirty Years of Soviet Espionage in the United States,” 30 December 1951, U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities, 15-16.
  • John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 379, 471.