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Max Weiss

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:New York
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Communism Communist Party USA
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Biography

Max Weiss was a Communist Party leader, formerly of Chicago, arrested in New York City on September 19, 1955 under a sealed 1954 Smith Act indictment, even though he had been living openly with his family for years. The FBI had planted stories that he had gone underground.

Case

Charges: Smith Act membership clause
Sentence: Held for transfer to Chicago
Convicted: Arrested September 1955 under a sealed indictment