Bela Gold

Bela Gold, also Bill Gold, (born 30 January 1915), was born in Cluj-Napoca (then Austria-Hungary, now Romania). He was the son of Esther (born 1891) and Leo Gold (born 1890), and had a brother, William Gold (born 1921). His father was a dry goods salesman, and the family had emigrated in 1920. He married Sonia Steinman Gold in 1938. In the early 40s he began work at the Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization and Sonya worked in government as well, for a time for Harry Dexter White. The Golds were spied upon by J Edgar Hoover's FBI for a time in the 1940s. The Golds came to testify at the House Unamerican Activities Committee because of the accusations of Elizabeth Bentley. The Golds denied working with the Soviets and denied they...