Solomon Adler
Solomon Adler (August 6, 1909 – August 4, 1994) worked as U.S. Treasury representative in China during World War II.
Adler was identified by
From the early 1960s, Adler was also affiliated with the
Early life
Solomon Adler was born on August 6, 1909 in Leeds, England. The Adler family was of Jewish ancestry and originally from Karelitz, Belarus, moving to Leeds in 1900. Solomon Adler was the fifth of ten children; the oldest was Saul Adler, who became a well-known Israeli parasitologist.[2] Adler studied economics at Oxford and University College, London. He moved to the United States in 1935 to do research.
Career
In 1936, he was hired at the Works Progress Administration's National Research Project but soon moved to the Treasury Department's Division of Monetary Research and Statistics, where he worked with Harry Dexter White for the next several years.[3]
Adler became a naturalized
In 1949, Adler became the subject of a Loyalty of Government Employees investigation. He resigned before the case was resolved and returned to Britain, where he taught for several years at Cambridge University. When his US passport expired, he was
Later life
When the United States re-established diplomatic contacts with China in 1971, Adler renewed his US citizenship[citation needed]. He died in Beijing on August 4, 1994, two days before his 85th birthday.
Espionage
In 1939,
In addition to his contacts with US espionage groups, while he was serving as Treasury attache in
Together with
A Chinese work published in 1983 stated that from 1963 on Adler worked for China's
References
- .
- ^ Gavron 12.
- ^ Craig 87.
- ^ Craig 87.
- ^ Craig 87.
- ^ Gavron 167; Rittenberg and Bennet 251.
- ^ Rittenberg and Bennett 251–256.
- ISBN 0-89526-571-0.
- ^ Weinstein 238.
- ^ Olmstead 99-100.
- ^ Haynes "Archival Identification"
- ^ Klehr and Radosh 21.
- ^ Haynes and Klehr 142–143.
- ^ Haynes and Klehr 144
- ^ Craig 88
Sources
- Solomon Adler: The Chinese Economy (London, Routledge & Paul 1957)
- Joan Robinson, Sol Adler: China: an economic perspective, foreword by Harold Wilson (London, Fabian International Bureau 1958)
- Sol Adler: A Talk to Comrades of the English Section for the Translation of Volume V of Chairman Mao's Selected Works (Guānyú "Máo xuǎn" dì-wǔ juǎn fānyì wèntí de bàogào 关于《毛选》第五卷翻译问题的报告; Beijing, Foreign Languages Press 1978).
Further reading
- Craig, R. Bruce. Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
- Gavron, Daniel. Saul Adler: Pioneer of Tropical Medicine. Rehovot, Israel: Balaban, 1997.
- Haynes, John Earl. "Russian Archival Identification of Real Names Behind Cover Names in VENONA." http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page59.html
- Haynes, John Earl and Harvey Klehr. Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. Yale University Press, 1999.
- Klehr, Harvey and Ronald Radosh. The Amerasia Spy Case. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
- Olmsted, Kathryn S. Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
- Rittenberg, Sidney and Amanda Bennett. The Man Who Stayed Behind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
- Weinstein, Allen. Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. New York: Knopf, 1997.
External links
- Funeral of Sol Adler (China News Digest, September 7, 1994)
- Vassiliev, Alexander (2003), Alexander Vassiliev's Notes on Anatoly Gorsky's December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks, retrieved 2012-04-21