Harry Freeman

Background

Freeman, Harry was born on March 2, 1906 in New York City. Son of Isaac and Stella (Lvovitch) Freeman.

Education

Freeman graduated from Cornell University with a degree in history.

Career

Freeman"s family came from Piratin near Lviv, part of the Poltava district in the Ukraine, then in the Russian empire. Later, Freeman took over the copy desk, while Chambers succeeded him on foreign news (later in turn succeeded by James South Allen). Chambers recalled Freeman"s guests included Sender Garlin, Abe Magill, James South. Allen, Joseph North (of the Daily Worker and New Masses), Anna Rochester, Grace Hutchins, Nadya Pavlov, and Kenneth Durant.

He also contributed to Pravda.

He was also a United Nations correspondent and from 1946 to 1948 served as vice president of the Foreign Press Association. Freeman appeared before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on February 21, 1956, on the scope of Russian intelligence operations in America.

He invoked the Fifth Amendment when declining to answer many questions. He did say that he had never spied against the United States. and had no association with the Communist Party since August 1941.

His testimony was the first of many Americans at Telegraphic Agency of the USSR, coming in response to a claim by defector Yuri Rastvorov in 1954.

Freeman died at age 72 on January 7, 1978 (Saturday).

Achievements

• Harry Freeman has been listed as a noteworthy journalist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member standing committee United Nations Corrs., 1946-1948. Member Foreign Press Association (Vice-President 1946-1948), United Nations Corrs. Association, Academy Political Science, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.

Club: National Press (Washington).

Connections

Married Vera Shapiro, October 7, 1927.

follower:

Sender Garlin

colleague:

Jay Lovestone