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Michael Greenberg (economist)

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Blocked from academic promotion, most likely due to his left-leaning politics, he went on to work in a number of jobs in journalism, public relations, advertising and film criticism in England, Switzerland and France. He lost his U.S. citizenship due to absence from the US and was denied a passport
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Greenberg's FBI file is highly redacted. A wiretap in 1945 revealed Greenberg's co-workers discussing "the charges against him", and remarking that Greenberg would have been better off if he had worked, but that he had never turned out a piece of work in the three years he had been employed by the
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who met Greenberg in Cambridge and stated that he "must have" been a Communist because of his associates. Upon appeal, the Civil Service Commission was over-ruled. Greenberg became a U.S. citizen in 1944 and transferred to the
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Company, a major player in the development of Hong Kong, describes the forceful exploitation of China by British colonial power in establishing and maintaining the colony of Hong Kong (see also
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government. His FBI file concluded: "Investigations conducted thus far has failed to disclose any pertinent information to this case at this time." (Silvermaster file 2C page 50)
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by the British Home Office, even as late as the 1970s. His British passport was never restored to him, and the accusations continued to hound him throughout the 1950s.
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of London. He later became chief economist at the London stockbroking company De Zoete & Bevan. He commented that in the City of London most people shared the
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Memorial Fellowship from Trinity College. He studied at Harvard from October 1939 to January 1941. Greenberg also became managing editor of the
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letterhead that "I will be glad to get the letters you mentioned to Lattimore uncensored." Currie's assistant in the White House was Greenberg.
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Upon return to England, Greenberg went back to Cambridge and completed work on his Ph.D. thesis, which was eventually published as a book
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Boughton, James M. and Sandilands, Roger J. "Politics and the Attack on FDR's Economists: From Grand Alliance to the Cold War",
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that he had learned in Cambridge in the 1930s, but that they were, by contrast, quite content with the implicit inequalities.
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Elizabeth Bentley's Testimony in Institute of Pacific Relations, Hearings, Part 2, Exhibit No. 111, 112, pp. 433–434.
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Civil Service Commission security officials wanted Greenberg dismissed upon learning of an alleged involvement with the
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in China could be transmitted so that "they are not read by others before reaching him." Currie promptly replied on a
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in 1945, resigning in 1946. Greenberg left the United States permanently in 1947 after being interviewed by the
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to have provided a Soviet spy with information during the 1940s, but was never charged with espionage.
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Greenberg arrived in the United States in 1939 to attend the graduate school of
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Michael Greenberg interview, 7 June 1947, FBI Silvermaster file, serial 2583.
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The Communist Controversy in Washington: From the New Deal to McCarthy
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Elizabeth Bentley deposition 30 November 1945, FBI file 65-14603.
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China Trade: British Commerce and the Opening of China, 1635–1842
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so was never called before a Congressional Committee.
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In 1958, he was recruited as economic advisor to the
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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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Washington Times-Herald, April 15, 1951, p. 5.
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Index

Chinese economics
history
McCarthyism
Venona
Venona project
Myrna group
Institute of Pacific Relations
Amerasia
Manchester
Iași
Manchester Grammar School
Trinity College, Cambridge
Harvard University
Joseph Hodges Choate
Institute of Pacific Relations
Edward Clark Carter
Lauchlin Currie
Owen Lattimore
White House
Board of Economic Warfare
Lauchlin Currie
Foreign Economic Administration
Elizabeth Bentley
Mary Price
Communist Party
Louis Budenz
Karl Wittfogel
Department of State
FBI
ISBN

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