AAA, La Follette Committee, United States Attorney General's office, CIO
Known for
membership in Ware Group, Perlo Group, IJA, NLG
Notable work
CIO union collective bargaining
Political party
Communist Party of the United States of America, American Labor Party, Progressive Party
Spouses
Jessica Smith Ware
Vita Barsky
John Jacob Abt (May 1, 1904 – August 10, 1991) was an American lawyer and politician, who spent most of his career as chief counsel to the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and was a member of the Communist Party and the Soviet spy network "Ware Group" as alleged by Whittaker Chambers.
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Abt, John; Myerson, Michael (1993). Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. pp. 78 (Amalgamated), 99 (CIO-PAC), 273 (Angela Davis). ISBN 9780252020308.
John Jacob Abt (May 1, 1904 – August 10, 1991) was an American lawyer and politician, who spent most of his career as chief counsel to the Communist Party...
known meeting of the Ware Group occurred in late 1933 with eight members: JohnAbt, Henry Collins, Alger Hiss, Victor Perlo, Lee Pressman, Nathaniel Weyl...
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regularly attended a 6:30 a.m. daily Mass for over a decade. Opus Dei member C. John McCloskey said he also occasionally attended the daily noontime Mass at the...
Ware withdrew his objections and I resigned from AAA. JohnAbt: In his 1993 autobiography, * JohnAbt, later long-time attorney for the Communist Party,...
1940s and before JohnAbt Joel Barr Elizabeth Bentley Earl Browder Boris Bukov Whittaker Chambers Lona Cohen Morris Cohen Judith Coplon Noel Field Klaus...
Freedom recipients List of American spies JohnAbt Jacob Burck Chambers (surname) Noel Field Harold Glasser John Herrmann Alger Hiss Donald Hiss Nathan Levine...
Union are Guy Burgess and Donald D. Maclean of Great Britain in 1951, Otto John of West Germany in 1954, William H. Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, U.S. cryptographers...
possibility of a thermonuclear weapon; one month later, he filed a patent with John von Neumann, describing a thermonuclear weapon design the two had collaborated...
University Press: Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, written by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev; Vassiliev's notebooks...
insight into White.) Svetlana Chervonnaya List of American spies JohnAbt Noel Field John Herrmann Donald Hiss J. Peters Ward Pigman Lee Pressman Vincent...
1940s and before JohnAbt Joel Barr Elizabeth Bentley Earl Browder Boris Bukov Whittaker Chambers Lona Cohen Morris Cohen Judith Coplon Noel Field Klaus...
1940s and before JohnAbt Joel Barr Elizabeth Bentley Earl Browder Boris Bukov Whittaker Chambers Lona Cohen Morris Cohen Judith Coplon Noel Field Klaus...
charges which have been leveled against me by the state of California." JohnAbt, general counsel of the Communist Party USA, was one of the first attorneys...
and explorer St John Philby and his wife, Dora Johnston. A member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) at the time of Philby's birth, St John later became a...
obtained confessions from Anthony Blunt (1907–1983, codename Johnson) and then John Cairncross (1913–1995, codename Liszt), who have come to be seen as the last...
secretary; he later admitted that he had been a member of the Communist party. JohnAbt served as legal counsel to the convention's permanent chairman, Albert...
Irving Kaplan Irving Lerner Jacob Golos Jane Foster Zlatovski JohnAbtJohn Herrmann John Anthony Walker Julian Wadleigh Juliet Stuart Poyntz Julius Rosenberg...
1940s and before JohnAbt Joel Barr Elizabeth Bentley Earl Browder Boris Bukov Whittaker Chambers Lona Cohen Morris Cohen Judith Coplon Noel Field Klaus...
Christopher John Boyce (born 16 February 1953) is a former American defense industry employee who was convicted of selling United States spy satellite...
JohnAbt, Lee Pressman, Alger Hiss, Donald Hiss, Nathan Witt, Henry Collins, Marion Bachrach (husband Howard Bachrach was also an AAA employee), John...
Saturday, he declined their services, saying he wanted to be represented by JohnAbt, chief counsel to the Communist Party USA, or by lawyers associated with...
1940s and before JohnAbt Joel Barr Elizabeth Bentley Earl Browder Boris Bukov Whittaker Chambers Lona Cohen Morris Cohen Judith Coplon Noel Field Klaus...
administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This group included Alger Hiss, JohnAbt, and Lee Pressman (Pressman admitted participation in the group, but denied...
1940s and before JohnAbt Joel Barr Elizabeth Bentley Earl Browder Boris Bukov Whittaker Chambers Lona Cohen Morris Cohen Judith Coplon Noel Field Klaus...