Isaac "Pop" Folkoff (also known as "Volkov", "Folconoff", and "Uncle"; 1881 – March 27, 1975), was a senior founding member of the Communist Party of California and West Coast liaison between Soviet intelligence and the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

Biography

Folkoff was born in 1881, in Ludza. In 1904, he arrived San Francisco, where he ran an embroidery business.

He helped found the California Communist Party and had gone as a delegate for the founding of the Communist International ("Comintern") in Moscow in 1919.

  • May 18, 1945: "According to information from Uncle..."

See also

  • Whittaker Chambers
  • Grigory Markovich Kheifitz
  • James Walter Miller

References

Sources

  • John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pgs. 234, 235, 239.