Sonia Steinman Gold (December 17, 1917 in

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– August 31, 2009) was a United States government employee in the 1930s and 1940s, who has been alleged to be part of the Silvermaster spy ring in Washington D.C., spying for the

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during

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Prior to World War II she worked for the

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Select Committee on Interstate Migration and in the United States Bureau of Employment Security. Sonia Gold received an appointment after Assistant

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was asked by the

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underground secret apparatus to place her within his office. The appointment within the Treasury Department Division of Monetary Research was to help facilitate the transmission of stolen documents to the Soviet Union. Much of the information dealt with the Treasury Departments's views and recommendations about applications for loans made by the Chinese and French governments. There was also political information regarding

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, leader of the French National Committee. Her office was one block from the

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. Gold was the wife of Bela Gold. She left the

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in late 1944 on maternity leave. Sonia Gold's code name in Soviet intelligence according to the Venona project was "Zhenya".

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FBI Silvermaster group
1917 births 2009 deaths American people in the Venona papers American spies for the Soviet Union {{Soviet-stub

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