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'''Abraham George Silverman''' graduated from Harvard was considered a brilliant mathemetician mathematician and statistician who went to work in Washington D.C. in the early days of the President [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]] in the [[Railroad Retirement Board]]. From there he found employment in the Federal Coordinator of Transport, the United States Tariff Commission and the Labor Advisory Board of the [[National Recovery Administration]]. During World War II, Silverman was civilian Chief of Analysis and Plans to the Assistant Chief of the [[United States Army Air Forces|Army Air Forces]] Air Staff for Material and Service, assinged assigned to [[The Pentagon]]. Silverman supplied documents from the Pentagon to the [[Silvermaster group]] of Soviet spies. Silverman knew [[Greg Silvermaster]] to be a conduit for [[CPUSA]] chairman, [[Earl Browder]].

In 1941, Silverman was on loan to the [[Treasury Department]] and worked for a period of time on the frozen funds policy. Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury [[Harry Dexter White]] used Silverman to supply documents also for Soviet intelligence in the latter part of 1942 and early 1943. Presidential Assistant [[Lauchlin Currie]] furnished Silverman with oral information, including information that the United States was on the verge of breaking Soviet codes. [[Irving Kaplan]] of [[War Production Board]] also was giving information to be transmitted to the Soviet Union to Silverman. As the war progressed, the volume of material increased. Silverman worked closely with [[Lud Ullman]], who also worked at the Pentagon and did the photographing of the stolen documents prior to being turned over to the [[Elizabeth_BentleyElizabeth Bentley#Golos_networkGolos network|Golos network]].

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