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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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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