He joined the Communist Party of Australia during the depression of the 1930s and did many political cartoons for communist publications.
As well as Australian diplomat suspects abroad, Venona had revealed Wally Clayton (cryptonym 'KLOD'), a leading official within the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), as the chief organiser of Soviet intelligence gathering in Australia.
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Christian Jollie Smith (1885–1963), socialist lawyer and co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia