Noel Field
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Noel Field, American citizen, worked in the Western European Division of the United States Department of State in the 1930's. Field told Hede Massing who attempted to recruit him for the OGPU, that he preferred to work with his old friend Alger Hiss who was part of a GRU network.
The Comintern apparatus ordered Field to leave his position at the Department of State and join the a League of Nations program in Geneva, Switzerland where he came in contact with its Allen Dulles. In October 1940 Field resigned his position in Geneva and went to work for the Unitarian Service Committee in Marsailles. Field used this position to serve as a courier for the underground German Communist party and convey mesages to and from Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian and Yugoslav communist party organizations as he traveled Europe ostensibly on refugee business.
He fled to Communist Hungary when his espionage activities became known to the West and he and his family spent years in Hungarian prison cells and torture chambers. He was freed from prison in 1961 but never lost his commitment to his Communist beliefs and died in Hungary in 1970.
Sources
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press
- Cold War Counterintelligence (http://www.nacic.gov/history/CIReaderPlain/Vol3Chap1.pdf.)
