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[[File:The Red Dawn (George) cover.jpg|thumbnail|Cover of ''The Red Dawn'' by Harrison George.]]
The [[Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat]] (PPTUS) was established by the [[Profintern|Red International of Labor Unions]] (Profintern) in 1927, with [[Earl Browder]] as its [[General Secretary]]. Documents from the Comintern Archive in Moscow reveal the relationship between Browder and George, who at the time was an [[Industrial Workers of the World]] leader and
Intercepted [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]] traffic is alleged to reveal a covert relationship George had as a [[Agent handling#Fronts and cutout|cutout]] transmitting information from [[James Walter Miller]], who worked in the U.S. Post Office's [[Office of Censorship]] to the San Francisco KGB.<ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999; pg. 229.</ref>
Harrison's role receives mention in the memoir of [[Whittaker Chambers]]:
<blockquote>The "Old Man" {[[Isaac Folkoff]]} is a California businessman and lifelong Communist of Russian birth, very active in party affairs on the West Coast . At the time I met him, he was also connected with my old comrade from the ''[[Daily Worker]]'', Harrison George, who was then heading the West Coast office of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, an international Communist organization, which among other activities, was running couriers on the ships to Australia, Japan and Asiatic mainland ports.<ref name=Witness>{{cite book|last=Chambers|first=Whittaker|title=Witness|publisher=Random House|year=1952|location=New York|pages=257 (brother-in-law), 369 (PPTUS)|id=|lccn=52005149}}</ref></blockquote> ==Personal life==
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▲* "Hitting the Trail in the Lumber Camps," ''International Socialist Review,'' vol. 17, no. 8 (February 1917), pp. 455–457.
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* Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, ''The Secret World of American Communism
▲* Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, ''The Secret World of American Communism.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
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