 In New York City the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky was looking for an English-speaking secretary to assist Trotsky in Mexico.Wolfe’s friend Arthur Mizener, a professor at Yale, provided funds, and in 1937 Wolfe travelled to Mexico, where he worked for eight months as Trotsky’s bodyguard and secretary, acting as the liaison between Trotsky and the John Dewey Commission investigation into the Moscow Trials.Between 1937 and 1939 Wolfe occasionally worked in the Merchant Marines.