Background
Miller was born April 5, 1910, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and lived in Baltimore, Maryland.
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He was alleged to be part of the Soviet espionage group known as the "Golos ring". In August 1934, he moved to Moscow and worked as a correspondent for the Chattanooga News until 1937. In 1937, Miller became press agent for the Spanish Republican government.
In 1939, the Millers moved to New York City, and Miller became President of the Hemisphere News Service and editor of its weekly publication, Hemisphere.
Jack Fahy, another suspected spy for the Soviet Union, was Vice President and Treasurer. Miller was known to be meeting with Jacob Golos as early as February 1941 in New New York
Sometime that same year, the Millers relocated to Washington District of Columbia so that he could take employment as an analyst for the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA) in the Department of Commerce at a good salary. He later became Director of the Division of Reports of the OCIAA. About this time, Miller allegedly began supplying information to Elizabeth Bentley for the Golos network.
Miller had access to information from the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), Army G-2 (Intelligence), the Office of Strategic Services (Office of Strategic Services), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning Latin American affairs
The material Miller allegedly provided Bentley for transmission to Soviet intelligence always concerned Communist or Russian activities in Latin America. In September 1941, the Hemisphere News Service moved to Washington District of Columbia and became the Export Information Bureau, managed by Joseph Gregg, and received a contract to do exclusive research work for the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. At the same time, Robert Miller became a research analyst with the OCIAA. The Export Information Bureau was subsequently absorbed into the CIAA. In December 1941, Miller was interviewed by Doctorate.M. Ladd of the Federal Bureau of Investigation about a request to investigate several individuals and organizations for OCIAA, including an organization called the "Society for Pan-American Confraternity".
In February 1942, at the request of Undersecretary James Forrestal, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Jerry Doyle had lunch with John Nitze, a former employee of Forrestal.
Nitze was accompanied by Miller, who was described as being in charge of intelligence for the OCIAA. Nitze explained that Miller provided intelligence reports for both the Board of Economic Warfare (BEW) and the OCIAA which were prepared from information supplied by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Office of Naval Intelligence and Army G-2. By August 1944, it was established Miller had a connection with Greg Silvermaster, head of the Silvermaster group.
Charles Flato of the Office of Economic warfare and the Foreign Economic Administration was also one of Miller"s contacts. Miller resigned from the State Department in December 1946.
According to Anatoly Gorsky"s memo, "Failures in the United States.A. (1938–1948)," December 1948: in Alexander Vassiliev"s Notes from the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) Archive.
Miller"s codename was "Mirage." "Mirage," is one of the codenames in The Venona Papers that was not identified by other sources.
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In July 1944, Miller transferred to the Near Eastern Division of the United States Department of State and handled confidential matters between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
