14 Facts About Maurice Halperin

Maurice Hyman Halperin was an American writer, professor, diplomat, and accused Soviet spy.

Maurice Hyman Halperin was born on March 3,1906, in Boston, Massachusetts.

In 1930, Halperin lectured at the Sorbonne while studying there.

In 1935, Maurice Halperin traveled to Cuba with the League of American Writers to investigate possible human rights abuses.

Sometime during this period, Maurice Halperin joined the Communist Party of the USA.

Maurice Halperin taught at the University of Oklahoma, with summer 1941 as visiting professor at the University of Florida.

In late summer 1941, Maurice Halperin began working for the US federal government as a Latin American specialist.

Maurice Halperin distorted OSS reports with false information in order to reflect the views of Stalin, the Soviet Union, and the Communist Party of the United States.

Maurice Halperin was an advisor to the United Nations at the first conference in San Francisco.

Maurice Halperin helped establish a Hebrew language service for the UN, beamed to Palestine.

In 1946, Maurice Halperin resigned from the State Department to take the position of chair of Latin American studies at Boston University.

In 1953, after Soviet cables were secretly decrypted by US counter-intelligence, Maurice Halperin was called before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to defend himself on charges of espionage, at which time he lost his teaching position at Boston University.

Maurice Halperin denied the charges, but nevertheless fled to Mexico and taught at the National University of Mexico.

Maurice Halperin died age 88 on February 9,1995, of a stroke at the Royal Columbia Hospital just outside Vancouver, Canada.