Background
Tkach"s wife, Yeroslava, was born in Slatchev, Poland, and entered the United States. in 1913.
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Mikhail Tkach
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The Tkachs lived in New York City from 1922 onwards. Tkach became a naturalized United States citizen in New York City on December 8, 1936. Golos told Bentley much of the information was secured by Tkach from one West. J. Stepankowski, who for a time worked as an investigator for Golos.
In July 1944 Tkach was elected president of the Ukrainian Section of the International Workers Order, a communist-affiliated insurance and fraternal order.
The Ukraniain Daily News was by that time published by the Ukrainian Section of the IWO. Tkach supervised a small network of American communists working as agents of the Soviet Union. Tkach"s agent handler was SELIM KHAN, or KHAN, thought to be Avram Landy who also had contact with Albert Kahn, Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov, Walter Bernstein, and Bolesław Gebert.
Tkach was investigated under the Internal Security Acting by the Federal Bureau of Investigation New York Field Division, which considered him to be a key figure in Communist subversion. Tkach"s cover name as assigned by Soviet intelligence and deciphered in project transcripts is PERCH. Tkach is referenced in the following decrypts:
1056 Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) New York to Moscow, 3 July 1943.
823 Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) New York to Moscow, 7 June 1944.
881 Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) New York to Moscow, 20 June 1944. 1076 Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) New York to Moscow, 29 July 1944. 202 Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) New York to Moscow, 10 February 1945.
116 Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) Moscow to New York, 9 February 1945.
143 Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) Moscow to New York, 15 February 1945.
Politics
Elizabeth Bentley told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that in 1941 and 1942 Tkach had provided Jacob Golos with considerable information concerning the Ukrainian nationalism movement in the United States which Golos considered of great importance.
Membership
Tkach had long been active in the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and was editor of the Ukrainian Daily News, the leading Ukrainian Communist newspaper in the United States. As early as 1923, under the name M. Nastivsky, Tkach was an organization member of the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia.
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