Maxim Lieber
| Maxim Lieber | |
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| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
| Service | espionage |
| Active | 1930s, 1940s |
| Codename(s) | Paul |
| Roland F. Kapp (?) | |
| Other work | Maxim Lieberman |
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| Born | October 15, 1897 Warsaw, Congress Poland |
| Died | April 10, 1993 (aged 95) East Hartford, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American, Polish |
| Spouse | Irma Cohen (first), Sally Tannenbaum (second), Minna Zelinka Lieber (third) |
| Children | three |
| Occupation | literary agent, book publishing, spy |
Maxim Lieber (October 15, 1897 – April 10, 1993) was a prominent American literary agent in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. Whittaker Chambers named him as an accomplice in 1949, and Lieber fled first to Mexico and then Poland not long after Alger Hiss's conviction in 1950.
Lieber was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family of Jewish origin. Both parents came from Opoczno, Poland. His family left Hamburg, Germany for New York City aboard the S. S. Pennsylvania in 1907 and lived in the Bronx. Lieber's father served as a typesetter for the Yiddish social-democratic newspaper The Jewish Daily Forward, suggesting that one parent (if not both) was secularist. Young Maxim attended public schools, including Townsend Harris Hall (then part of New York City College) and Morris High School (Bronx, New York).
In 1918, Lieber joined the West Ontario Regiment of the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force. In 1919, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. In 1920, he received an honorable discharge as a Sergeant. (In 1951, Lieber testified that he had served in World War I, stationed at Camp Meade in the replacement battalion in medical service, that he received U. S. naturalization in Washington in 1919, and that he left the U.S. Army as a sergeant in the Army Medical Corp at Walter Reed Hospital.)
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