Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America by Harvey Klehr;John Earl Haynes;Alexander Vassiliev

Author:Harvey Klehr;John Earl Haynes;Alexander Vassiliev
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-04-02T05:02:00+00:00

(Graze's reference to "having been used only `to destroy the families of zo Russian traitors"' was likely a reference to his having given the KGB information on Russians who served with Vlasov's Army and the Soviet practice of punishing family members.) There were additional meetings into early 1977, but nothing resulted. Stanley Graze died in Costa Rica in June 1987, a one-time Communist and Soviet spy turned international business swindler.25

Donald Wheeler

The KGB's most productive source in the OSS was probably Donald Wheeler, who grew up in an environment very far removed from the New York Russian Jewish immigrant world of Stanley Graze. An autobiography he prepared for the KGB in January 1945 explained that he was descended from a Puritan family that had arrived in Massachusetts in the 1630s. At the time of the American Revolution his ancestors lived in upstate New York. His father grew up in Wisconsin and became a bricklayer. A Bellamyite Populist who welcomed the Russian Revolution with out ever joining the Communist Party, his father "`consistently defended the Soviet regime from the beginning. He has never been disturbed by purges, by pacts, or by any of the aspects of Soviet policy which have upset so many middle-class liberals."'26 - - - -- - - -- - - -- -

Wheeler himself was born on an isolated farm in White Bluffs, Washington, in 1913 and grew up with five siblings in a poor economic backwater in the eastern part of the state: "`We lived in a tenthouse: there was neither electricity, nor running water, nor telephone, and it was a hard struggle to provide even the least heat in winter. Drifting wood from [the] Columbia furnished all our fuel, and much of our timber."' He attended Reed College, joined the Communist-dominated National Student League, and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford in 1935. He explained his political development in this fashion:

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