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Leonard Cohen (spy)

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Leonard Cohen was an attorney who worked in the United States Department of the Interior during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cohen at the time was a contact with the Soviet Militiary Intelligence GRU Illegal apparatus. Cohen, according to FBI investigations, exchanged information with GRU Illegal Officer Ignacy Witczak.

References

  • FBI report, “Soviet Espionage Activities, 19 October 1945”.
  • New York FBI report, 5 April 1946, Comintern Apparatus file (FBI file 100-203581), serial 5236.
  • John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999).