- Philip Keeney
Philip Keeney (1891-1962), together with his wife,
Mary Jane Keeney , were fired from theUniversity Of Montana in 1937 for allegedsubversive activity. By 1941 Keeney working at theLibrary of Congress in Washington D.C. After the United States became involved inWorld War II , Keeney worked in theOffice of the Coordinator of Information . The Coordinator's Office was later transferred to theOffice of Strategic Services (OSS). A large portion of the OSS used the Library of Congress for space during that time.Jacob Golos met with Keeney in the Library of Congress, however Keeney was allegedly in the employ of Soviet Military IntelligenceGRU by then.Joseph Milton Bernstein was Keeney's alleged contact with the GRU. In 1945 Keeney went to Tokyo and worked on GeneralDouglas MacArthur 's staff.Keeney was allegedly transferred from the GRU to the
KGB in 1945. Philip Keeney's code name with the GRU and Soviet intelligence, and in theVenona project , is "Bredan".In later years Keeney was convicted of
contempt of Congress . Afterward, Keeney and his wife reportedly opened a theatre inGreenwich Village called Club Cinema to air mostly foreign-language titles, with occasional live performances. He died in 1962 at the age of seventy-one.Sources
* John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, "Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America," Yale University Press (1999)
* Rosalee McReynolds, "The Progressive Librarians Council and Its Founders" http://www.libr.org/pl/2_McReynolds.htmlExternal links
* [http://www.libr.org/PL/2_McReynolds.html Rosalee McReynolds, "The Progressive Librarians Council and Its Founders"]
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