Jacob Spolansky

Jacob Spolansky (born Jacob Sehpoliansky; c. 1890 – August 1966) was an American born Jew from the Russian Empire (today Ukraine) who rotated between government and private (corporate) investigative agencies as "part of a class of professional spies fostered by the growth of anticommunism during the First World War and first Red Scare, perhaps best known as "chief of the 'red squad'", a "professional enemy of communism," and a key player in the government raid on the 1922 Bridgman Convention.