Stanley Graze was an economist from New York City. He graduated from and lectured at the City College of New York and had a master's degree from Columbia University. He was employed by various Wall Street firms, the State Department, and the United Nations. He was alleged to have been a Soviet spy based on a transcription of the Gorsky Memo.
Stanley was the brother of Gerald Graze, both were listed in Alexander Vassiliev's transcription of the 1948 Gorsky Memo,[1] allegedly identified as government officials related to the Soviets. Vassiliev initiated and lost a 2004 libel case against the magazine Intelligence and National Security[2] in the British Courts concerning related material pertaining to the Gorsky Memo from his book, "The Haunted Wood."[3] Graze was also listed in the FBI Silvermaster File, which was compiled during the Cold War to assess Soviet presence in the US Government. The FBI placed surveillance over his interaction with Victor Perlo.[4] It remained unclear whether the cryptonym "DAN", was in fact Graze. Graze was later cleared by an internal review board. Like many Americans at the time, he was charged due to McCarthy's "Red Scare".
While working as an officer in the Office of Strategic Services, Graze participated in intelligence missions in Europe, based out of London during World War II. Graze received an Honorable Discharge at the end of his military service.
State Department Diplomat, Deborah E. Graze, is the daughter of Gerald Graze. She has served as the Consul General in Milan, Italy.[5]
References
- ^ Alexander Vassiliev’s Notes on Anatoly Gorsky’s December 1948 Memo Archived 2009-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Venona and Alger Hiss, Intelligence and National Security, John Lowenthal, Vol 15 No 3
- ^ Alexander Vassiliev, "How I Came to Write My Notebooks, Discover Alger Hiss, and Lose to His Lawyer," in John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009; pg. lii
- ^ FBI files released under the FOIA Archived 2013-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ US Consulate in Milan
Further reading
- Haynes, John Earl; Vassiliev, Alexander (2009). Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-15572-3.
External links
- Visit the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) for the full text of Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks containing more information on Graze's involvement in Soviet espionage
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