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4 unusual facts about Gerhart Eisler


Gerhart Eisler

Newsweek described him in its February 23, 1948, issue as the "number one Red agent".

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When his last legal appeal had failed he jumped bail and secretly boarded the Polish liner MS Batory bound for London in May 1949.

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From 1929 to 1931 he was a liaison between the Communist International and the Communist Parties in China and then from 1933 to 1936 to the United States.

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Elli left him with their baby daughter Natasha in 1933, when she could no longer cope with the demands the Comintern made on him.



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