district death_date death_place predecessor birth_place successor party article_title office birth_date term_start order image state term_end name
new york 19 19th new york 12 12th 22 april 1954 new york city , new york , u.s. sol bloom meyer london vilna vilnius , republic of lithuania -rrb- governorate , lithuania , russian empire -lrb- present-day arthur g. klein john j. rooney democratic samuel dickstein -lrb- congressman -rrb-
 justice , new york state supreme court 05 february 1885 1946 1919 january 3 , 1945 march 4 , 1923 new york state assemblyman samuel dicksten.jpg new york new york 1954 december 30 , 1945 january 3 , 1945 samuel dickstein
samuel dickstein -lrb- congressman -rrb-

samuel dickstein -lrb- february 5 , 1885 -- april 22 , 1954 -rrb- was a democratic congressional representative from new york and a new york state supreme court justice .
he played a key role in establishing the committee that would become the house committee on un-american activities , which he used to attack fascists , including nazi sympathizers , and suspected communists .
authors allen weinstein , and alexander vassiliev learned in 1999 that soviet files indicate he was a paid agent of the nkvd .
the `` boston globe '' stated : `` dickstein ran a lucrative trade in illegal visas for soviet operatives before brashly offering to spy for the nkvd , the kgb 's precursor , in return for cash . ''
sam roberts in `` the brother : the untold story of the rosenberg case '' wrote that '' `` not even julius rosenberg knew that samuel dickstein had been on the kgb 's payroll . '' ''
kurt stone wrote that dickstein '' `` was , for many years , a ` devoted and reliable ' soviet agent whom his handlers nicknamed ` crook . ' '' ''
