Mark Gayn

Mark Gayn (died 1981) was an American left wing journalist and a Soviet spy.^[1]

He was born in China to Russian-Jewish parents who had migrated from Russian Empire. He went to school in Vladivostok and was proponent of the Chinese Communists. Gayn wrote for Collier's and the Washington Post and was arrested in the FBI raid on the offices of the Institute for Pacific Relations (IPR) Amerasia office in June 1945. Almost 2000 U.S. Government documents, from various agencies and departments including the U.S. State Department and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) marked "Top Secret" were confiscated in the raid.^[2]

References

1. ^ Mark Gayn
2. ^ While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It, John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, pgs. 76, 135 - 136 pdf.

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