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Lee Pressman (July 1, 1906 – November 20, 1969) was a labor attorney and a US government functionary publicly exposed in 1948 for having been a spy for the Soviet foreign intelligence network during the middle 1930s as a member of the Ware Group. Pressman lost his job as counsel for the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1948 as a result of a purge of Communist Party members and fellow travelers from that organization.
Lee Pressman was born July 1, 1906, on the Lower East Side of in New York City to Russian immigrants Harry and Clara Pressman.
Pressman received his Bachelor's degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and a law degree from Harvard Law School. At Harvard, he was in the same class as Alger Hiss, and they both served on the Harvard Law Review:
After graduation, he joined the law firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy (currently Chadbourne & Parke) in New York City.
On June 28, 1931, Pressman married the former Sophia Platnich. The couple had three daughters.
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