age ~42
from Greenwood, SC
…Although the Igor Gouzenko and Elizabeth Bentley affairs had raised the issue of Soviet espionage as far back as 1945, events in 1949 and 1950 sharply increased the sense of threat from Communism in the United States. The Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb in 1949, earlier than many analysts...
…[15] Three months later (in December 1945), Elizabeth Bentley, an American spy for the Soviet Union who served also as courier between Communist groups,[16] told the FBI, as documented in the FBI Silvermaster File that, "At this time Kramer told me that the person who had originally taken Gl...