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Burdett Links Communists to Spying in Europe Testimony
CBS reporter Winston Burdett testified to Senate investigators that he spied for the Communist Party in Europe during the early 1940s. He claimed to quit in 1942 after learning the Soviet state was totalitarian, while detailing espionage in Finland, reports to Ankara, and a marriage in Romania.
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Washington
Winston M. Burdett
United Nations
Columbia Broadcasting System
Europe
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
CBS
Senate
Finland
Brooklyn Eagle
Ankara
Lea Schiavi
Communist Party
the Eagle
Alvah Bessie
Hollywood Ten
Nat Einhorn
Bessie
Burdett
Guild
Ures
Deane
7Ane
CIO
American
The
Newspaper Guild of
New York
National’ Union
New ‘York
Brooklyn Hadle
Albany
Joseph Collis
American Newspaper Guild
Newle
Newspa
Sig Mickelson
Atto
FBI
Reds
Vuhairman Wastland
Astlisston Burdett
Joe North
Daily Worker
North
Da‘cob Golas
Elizabeth Bentley
Greenwich Village
Nort
Golas
Tie Ashe
Sweden
Red
Russia
Romania
Yugoslavia
Turkey
Iran
Feelance
Aspen
Wade Min Dues Hove