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4 unusual facts about Gerhart Eisler


Gerhart Eisler

Newsweek described him in its February 23, 1948, issue as the "number one Red agent".

When his last legal appeal had failed he jumped bail and secretly boarded the Polish liner MS Batory bound for London in May 1949.

From 1929 to 1931 he was a liaison between the Communist International and the Communist Parties in China and then from 1933 to 1936 to the United States.

Elli left him with their baby daughter Natasha in 1933, when she could no longer cope with the demands the Comintern made on him.



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