Maurice Hyman Halperin

In Exile
Date of birth:03. 03. 1906
Date of death:09. 02. 1995
Age:88† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1950s
State:Massachusetts
Support
Communism
Maurice Hyman Halperin

Biography

Maurice Hyman Halperin was a scholar, former State Department and Office of Strategic Services official, and Boston University professor. In 1953 the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee questioned him about allegations that he had supplied information to Soviet intelligence. Halperin denied the accusations, invoked the Fifth Amendment, lost his university position and moved to Mexico. With extradition a concern, he and his wife moved to the Soviet Union in December 1955, where he worked with the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He left for Cuba in 1962 and later settled in Canada. Later archival scholarship treated the espionage allegations as substantiated, but no U.S. criminal trial adjudicated them before his flight.

Case

Charges: Accused in Senate proceedings of assisting Soviet intelligence; the allegation was denied and was not resolved in a U.S. criminal trial before he left the country.
In exile since: Nov 28, 1953
Exile ended: 1962
Sentence: Left Mexico for the Soviet Union amid possible extradition; later moved from the USSR to Cuba. The State Department statement printed in the Congressional Record on August26,1960, pp17792–17793, dates his move to Mexico to November28,1953 and departure from Mexico to October13,1958; it reports his own statement that he had lived in the USSR since December1958. The exile start records departure from the United States for Mexico, rather than the later Soviet move. The existing1962 endpoint concerns his subsequent move to Cuba, not a verified return to the United States. Source: https://www.congress.gov/86/crecb/1960/08/26/GPO-CRECB-1960-pt13-7-1.pdf#page=54

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