1889: Birthdate of Yakov Naumovich Reizen aka Jacob Golos, who | This day in jew history

1889: Birthdate of Yakov Naumovich Reizen aka Jacob Golos, who was a Soviet spy and high value communist.
In 1927 he was involved in creating a Communist Party-sponsored travel agency, called World Tourists, Inc.
By 1933, Reizen was heading the World Tourists venture, which generated funds for various CPUSA activities.
He was also involved in coordinating the CPUSA's operation to produce false passports and in the acquisition and supply of American naturalization papers and birth certificates, which were used to obtain American passports to "legalize" Soviet intelligence agents around the world — initially in Europe and Asia, but later in the Americas as well.
He was the business manager of Novyi Mir (New World), the CP's Russian-language newspaper, based in New York.
Throughout the 1930s Reizen was a member of the CPUSA's Central Control Commission.
Vassiliev's notes revealed that in late 1940, Reizen recruited author Ernest Hemingway, assigning him the code name: "Argo"; the author had offered to work covertly for the Soviets.
By 1942, Reizen was an NKVD operative who assisted a Communist cell of engineers headed by Julius Rosenberg gain direct contact with Soviet intelligence operatives in New York.
His office was raided by Fbi but was still somewhat active until his death in 1943.