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Samuel HOCHSTEDT, aliases HOCHSTADT, HOCHSTETTER: Romanian, German. HOCHSTADT (the...

Catalogue reference: KV 2/2672

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This record is about the Samuel HOCHSTEDT, aliases HOCHSTADT, HOCHSTETTER: Romanian, German. HOCHSTADT (the... dating from 1937 Nov 18 - 1949 Sep 16 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
KV 2/2672
Date
1937 Nov 18 - 1949 Sep 16
Description

Samuel HOCHSTEDT, aliases HOCHSTADT, HOCHSTETTER: Romanian, German. HOCHSTADT (the spelling he adopted in the USA) was born in Romania but moved to Vienna at an early age. He joined the Austrian Communist Party in 1922. Between 1927 and 1934 he worked for the Austro-Russian Trading Co. According to Krivitsky he was recruited in 1934 as a Russian military intelligence (4th Dept) agent, and went to Moscow in 1935. Thereafter Krivitsky said that he had been involved in attempts to buy arms for the Republicans in Spain. HOCHSTADT emigrated to the USA in 1938 as Chief Accountant for the cover firm Oriental Trading and Engineering. Thereafter he worked for various diamond companies in New York

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
PF 60318
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Access conditions
Retained Until 2007
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11377561/

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