“The spies in history who can say from their graves, the
infomation I supplied to my masters, for better or worse,
altered the history of our planet, can be counted on the fingers
of one hand. Richard Sorge was in that group.” Born Moishe
Chilovsky in Kiev in 1902, grew up in Chicago, changing his name
to Morris Childs and taking part in a growing left wing movement
within the city. Became one of the charter members of the
American Communist Party in 1919. In 1929 was selected by the
Soviet Communist Party to attend the prestigious Lenin School in
Moscow where he learned about the concepts of developing
revolution and the fundamental principles of Communism. Among
his schoolmates were future Soviet premiers Nikita Khrushchev
and Leonid Brezhnev and Morris Ponomarov who would go on to
serve as a member of the politburo and as the international head
of the Communist Party. Childs headed the Illinois district of
the American Communist Party, a key position and ran for the
United States Senate seat under the poli