Career
She worked at the Board of Economic Warfare in Washington District of Columbia during World World War World War II In November 1945, Keeney travelled to Europe to work with the Allied Staff on Reparations. She was alleged to be passing information to the Soviet Union through Joseph Milton Bernstein. After the war Keeney worked at the United Nations.
Keeney"s diary details that Sergey Kurnakov became their new Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) handler.
By the end of 1950, Keeney lost her position with the United Nations. She was convicted of contempt of Congress.
However, the decision was overturned upon appeal. The Keeneys then opened a theatre in Greenwich Village called Club Cinema to air mostly foreign-language titles, with occasional live performances.
Mary Jane died in 1969 at the age of seventy-one.