Michael Greenberg (28 November 1914-19 April 1992) was a scholar of Chinese economics and history. For the town in Argentina, see 28 de Noviembre. Events Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich London. 1529 - At the Second Diet of Speyer Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) China has the second-largest economy in the world with a GDP of over $ 6 Chinese civilization originated in various city-states along the Yellow River ( valley in the Neolithic era He was alleged to have provided a Soviet spy with information during the 1940s, but was never charged with espionage.
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Greenberg was born as Michael Menahem Greenberg in Manchester, Lancashire, England, son of a Polish-born father. The Venona project was a long-running and highly secret collaboration between Intelligence agencies of the United States and United Kingdom that involved Elizabeth Terrill Bentley ( January 1 1908 &ndash December 3 1963) was an American spy for the Soviet Union The Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR was an international organization established in 1925 to provide a forum for discussion of problems and relations between nations of the Pacific Amerasia was a journal of Far Eastern affairs founded by "millionaire Communist" Frederick Vanderbilt Field (who was also Editorial Board Chairman England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland He attended Manchester Grammar School and won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge where he won first class honours. The Manchester Grammar School ( MGS) is an independent boys' school (ages 9-18 in Fallowfield, Manchester, England. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the
Greenberg arrived in the United States in 1939 to attend the Graduate School of Harvard University under a Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellowship from Trinity College, Cambridge. Joseph Hodges Choate ( January 24, 1832 - 1917 was an American lawyer and diplomat Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. He studied at Harvard from October 1939 to January 1941. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Greenberg also became editor of the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) publication, Pacific Affairs in 1939. The Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR was an international organization established in 1925 to provide a forum for discussion of problems and relations between nations of the Pacific In August 1941, Edward Clark Carter, General Secretary to the Pacific Council of the IPR, wrote Lauchlin Currie asking if letters to Owen Lattimore in China could be transmitted so that "they are not read by others before reaching him. Edward Clark Carter ( June 9, 1878 – November 9, 1954) Educator and officer of the YMCA, 1902-1922 of the Institute of Pacific Lauchlin Bernard Currie ( October 8, 1902 – December 23, 1993) was a Canadian -born Economist from New Dublin Owen Lattimore ( July 29, 1900 &ndash May 31, 1989) was a distinguished U " Currie promptly replied on a White House letterhead that "I will be glad to get the letters you mentioned to Lattimore uncensored. See also Executive Office of the President of the United States The White House, formerly known as the Executive Mansion, is the Official residence " Currie's assistant in the White House was Greenberg.
In 1942 Greenberg became a China specialist at the Board of Economic Warfare and an assistant to the agency's head, Lauchlin Currie. The Office of Administrator of Export Control was established in the United States by Presidential Proclamation 2413 July 2 1940, to administer export licensing provisions of Lauchlin Bernard Currie ( October 8, 1902 – December 23, 1993) was a Canadian -born Economist from New Dublin Greenberg later worked as a Foreign Affairs Economist in the Administrative Division, Enemy Branch, of the Foreign Economic Administration. The Foreign Economic Administration (FEA was an agency designed and run by Leo Crowley. Elizabeth Bentley, who had never met Greenberg (see Silvermaster file 2C page 18) stated that for a brief period Greenberg supplied information concerning principally China. Elizabeth Terrill Bentley ( January 1 1908 &ndash December 3 1963) was an American spy for the Soviet Union China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National The information was passed through Mary Price. Mary Wolfe Price (later Mary P Adamson) was an American who was accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union.
Civil Service Commission security officials wanted Greenberg dismissed upon learning of an alleged involvement with the Communist Party (see Silvermaster file 2C page 18). A Political party described as a communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of Communism through a communist form of Louis Budenz and an academic Karl Wittfogel who met Greenberg in Cambridge and stated that he "must have" been a Communist because of his associates. Louis Francis Budenz ( July 17, 1891 &ndash April 27, 1972) was an American activist and writer as well as a Soviet Karl August Wittfogel ( 6 September 1896 &ndash 25 May 1988) was a German-American Historian and Sinologist Upon appeal, the Civil Service Commission was overruled. Greenberg became a U. S. citizen in 1944 and transferred to the Department of State in 1945, resigning in 1946. Greenberg left the United States permanently in 1947 after being interviewed by the FBI so was never called before a Congressional Committee.
Greenberg's FBI file is highly redacted. A wiretap in 1945 revealed Greenbergs'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 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.
Upon return to England, Greenberg went back to Cambridge and completed work on his Ph. D. thesis, which was eventually published as a book "British Trade and the Opening of China" (ISBN 0-85345-497-3) (1947, Cambridge University Press, reissued in 1970, republished in the USA in 1979, and again in 2000 as part of an 8 volume set "China Trade : British Commerce and the Opening of China, 1635-1842"). Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP is a Publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534 This book, based on the then recently released archives of the Jardine Matheson Company, a major player in the development of Hong Kong, describes the forceful exploitation of China by British colonial power in establishing and maintaining the colony of Hong Kong (see also Opium War). Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited (,) often called Jardines or Jardine's (怡和 is a Multinational corporation that is incorporated in The Opium Wars ( also known as the Anglo-Chinese Wars, lasted from 1839 to 1842 and 1856 to 1860 the climax of a trade dispute between China under the Qing
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 USA and was denied a passport by the British Home Office, even as late as the 1970s. His British passport was never restored to him, and the accusations continued to hound him throughout the 1950s.
In 1958, he was recruited as Economic Advisor to the Central Bank of Ceylon, returning to the UK in 1961. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka is the Monetary authority of Sri Lanka. Shortly thereafter, he became, as Michael Green, assistant editor and then chief editor of The Banker, a monthly professional journal published by the Financial Times of London. The Financial Times ( FT) is a British international business Newspaper. 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 Marxist analysis of capitalism that he had learned in Cambridge in the 1930s, but that they were, by contrast, quite content with the implicit inequalities. Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Capitalism is the Economic system in which the Means of production are owned by private Persons and operated for Profit and where
His obituary appeared in The Times and The Independent. The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media. He was survived by his wife and three sons.
Sources
- FBI Silvermaster File
- FBI Silvermaster file
- Michael Greenberg interview, 7 June 1947, FBI Silvermaster file, serial 2583. The FBI’s Silvermaster file is a 162-volume compendium of some 26000 pages of documents relating to the Bureau’s investigation of Communist penetration of the Federal government during
- Washington Times-Herald, April l5, l951, p. 5.
- Elizabeth Bentley's Testimony in Institute of Pacific Relations, Hearings, Part 2, Exhibit No. 1ll, 112, pp. 433-434.
- Elizabeth Bentley deposition 30 November 1945, FBI file 65-14603.
- Earl Latham, The Communist Controversy in Washington: From the New Deal to McCarthy, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, (1966), 306–307.
- John Costello, Mask of Treachery, New York: Morrow, (1988), 380–381, 480–481.
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pgs. 111, 113, 114, 161, 374, 408, 409, 415, 421.
- Boughton, James M. and Sandilands, Roger J. "Politics and the Attack on FDR's Economists: From Grand Alliance to the Cold War", Intelligence and National Security, Spring 2002
- Michael Greenberg FBI FOIA
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