Floyd Miller
Floyd Cleveland Miller (March 20, 1912 – June 4, 1988)[1] was a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), who confessed in 1954 to having worked for the Soviet intelligence agencies.
Miller was born in
Miller's primary KGB contacts, as noted in
In the first half of 1944, Miller met in New York with Jack Soble who provided the KGB with microfilm of the page proofs of Leon Trotsky's biography of Joseph Stalin. Miller carried the microfilm to Mexico for the SWP to present to Natalia Sedova, Trotsky's widow. While in Mexico, Miller spent six weeks living in the Trotsky household. When he returned to New York, Miller delivered a written report to the KGB.
Miller confessed his covert activities to the
Venona
Floyd Cleveland Miller is referenced in the following Venona project decryptions:
727 KGB New York to Moscow, 20 May 1944; 751–752 KGB New York to Moscow, 26 May 1944; 826 KGB New York to Moscow, 7 June 1944; 846 KGB New York to Moscow, 14 June 1944; 851 KGB New York to Moscow, 15 June 1944; 1143–1144 KGB New York to Moscow, 10 August 1944.
References
- ^ "MILLER, FLOYD C. thru MILLER, FLOYDE". Archived from the original on 2018-04-20. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
- FBI Venona file
- International Committee of the Fourth International, How the GPU Murdered Trotsky, New Park Publications, London, 1976, pgs. 146–153.
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pgs. 263–266, 276.