Morris Childs
Morris Childs (born May 28, jul. / 10. June 1902 greg. In Kiev , Russian Empire as Moishe Iosifovich Tschilowski ; † 2. June 1991 in Chicago ) was an American double agent .
His father emigrated from Russia to the USA in 1910, and in December 1911 his mother and children also arrived on Ellis Island . After the Russian October Revolution , Morris Childs became involved in the communist movement in the USA. From 1929 to 1932 he was sent to the International Lenin School in Moscow, after his return to the USA Childs continued to work for the communist movement. In the 1938 congressional elections , he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate as a representative of the state of Illinois .
In 1952 he was hired by the FBI as a double agent. From 1958 to 1977 he made 52 trips to Moscow, where, among other things, he received cash to finance the Communist Party of the USA .
When the Senate Church Committee examined the activities of the intelligence services in 1975, Morris Childs was named to the committee as the most important agent the United States had ever had. Childs received the Order of the Red Banner from the Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev in 1977 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from US President Ronald Reagan in 1987 .
literature
- John Barron: Operation SOLO: The FBI's man in the Kremlin. Regnery, Washington 1996.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bill Gertz: Breakdown: How America's intelligence failures led to September 11. Regnery, Washington 2012, p. 90.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Childs, Morris |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tschilowski, Moische Iossifowitsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American double agent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Kiev , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 1991 |
| Place of death | Chicago |