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The F.B.I. Log
    The F.B.I.’s version of events. If you have a warm bone in your body, you will disregard it.
    —G. L.
    Teletype June 20, 1950. The following information obtained by Special Agent Tabackin on subject Solomon Rubell. Born November 3, 1919, New York City. Father: Ben Rubell, same address, born Russia. Came to U.S. at age fifteen and naturalized five or six years before World War I. Mother: Sarah Rubell, nee Goldberg, came to U.S. and naturalized through husband.
    First job: Frederick Electric Company, 25 East 63rd Street, New York City. Next job: soda clerk, 1938, Joffe’s Pharmacy, Seventh Avenue and 132nd Street, New York City. May to June 1942: tool designer, Richards Company, 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, New York City.
    Married Dolores Stern, April 1942 in New York City. First marriage for both. Her parents, both born in Russia, are naturalized. Subject claimed to own no property and to possess personal property worth $180. Maintains joint savings account with wife at Manhattan Savings Bank, Delancey and Essex streets, New York City. 1942 balance about $203. Only income is from salary. No debts. Avocations of subject given as aviation, radio, attending movies, folk dancing, playing checkers and chess, Ping-Pong and tennis. Physical description: 5 feet 71/2 inches, weight 142, no physical defects.
    Subject denied membership in the Communist Party or any subversive group, though admitted sometimes feeling “moony” about the contributions made by the Soviet Union to the war effort.
    Teletype June 23, 1950. Interview with Hershie Stem. Solomon Rubell asked Hershie Stern’s wife, Jelly, if he, Hershie Stern, would give information to the Soviet Union. The USSR was fighting the enemy and was entitled to the info.
    Hershie Stern is the brother of Dolores Rubell, Solomon’s wife. Stern has stated that on or about October 3, 1944, his wife Jelly arrived in New Mexico from New York City and advised him that Solomon had requested that he furnish information to the Soviet Union. Hershie agreed.
    Hershie Stern advised that Rubell had two apartments for microfilming in New York City, one in Greenwich Village. Joe Klein rented the apartment at 29 Perry Street from Rubell, maintaining it until 1947. Klein turned it over to Robert Metzger in 1947.
    Stern identified Sid Smorg from newspaper pictures as the individual who contacted him sometime during the summer of 1945 for information. Hershie admitted to having received $800 from Smorg on this occasion. Hershie furnished Smorg with a list of persons who he thought could be approached for information. Hershie said he gave Smorg a sketch of the bomb. Smorg advised Stern that he would come back to see him again. However, no further contact was made by Smorg.
    Stern furnished the following information regarding Solomon Rubell: he resides at 110 Catherine Street with his two children and his wife Dolores (or Dolly), who is Hershie Stern’s sister. Rubell is the owner of Great Machine Products, 389 Madison Street, New York City. Solomon Rubell is thirty years of age, a graduate student in engineering at City College. Stern knows that Smorg has positively identified himself as the soldier he met in June 1945 in New Mexico.
    Teletype July 5, 1950. Solomon Rubell interviewed by agent Tabackin for 80 minutes. Rubell appeared to be frightened but was unresponsive. After calling his lawyer and being advised he could leave, he politely departed.
    Teletype July 7, 1950. In view of Hershie Stern’s confession and Solomon Rubell’s imminent arrest, it is deemed advisable to interview Robert Metzger, Joe Klein, and Jed Levine regarding their possible involvement in espionage as part of Rubell’s network. With respect to these three, it is desired you give careful consideration and preparation for these interviews and institute them as soon as possible. You should in the course of these interviews attempt to secure consent to search individuals’