Jacob Spolansky

Background Jacob Spolansky was born around 1890 near Kyiv, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire). He studied two years at university in Kiev and another year at the University of Zurich. In September 1922 during the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 (AKA the Railway Shopmen's Strike), Spolansky led a group of BI and Secret Service staff who protected US Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty. and personally arrested William Z. Foster. ) On January 23, 1924, Spolansky submitted his letter of resignation to BI director William J. Burns; soon after, articles appeared in the Chicago Daily News under his name with information believed to have come from the BI. The paper ridiculed him: "Spolansky Exposes Own Plots." In late October 1924, the newspaper reported that "Jake" had joined the Burns Detective Agency in Chicago, run by his former BOI boss Burns, "King of Dicks." In February 1926, the a Philadelphia businessman informed the FBI that Spolansky was working for the National Clay Products Industries Association in Chicago. Spolansky also helped track Comintern agent Mikhail Borodin in the USA. In the fall of 1941, Spolansky unsuccessfully tried to launch a Nonsectarian League for Americanism.

On October 12, 1938, while serving as a Wayne County detective, Communist Party Convention: Day 2 — Sept. 2, 1919 (September 4, 1919) Communist Party of America Convention Day 3 — Sept. 3, 1919 (September 4, 1919) In Re: Communist Meeting at West Side Auditorium, Chicago, Sept. 21, 1919 (September 26, 1919) “The Red Evening”: Bureau of Investigation Report on the Mass Meeting Held at West Side Auditorium, Chicago, Nov. 1, 1919 (November 3, 1919) The Martens Controversy in the Russian Federation of the CPA: Undercover Report of a Meeting in Chicago (December 1, 1919) Military Intelligence Department Undercover Surveillance Reportof the Communist Labor Party (January 12, 1920)

Articles "Hunt $250,00.00 Smuggled Jews Here," Chicago Daily News (February 7, 1924) "Chicago Plots of the Reds Exposed by a United States Secret Service Agent,"Chicago Daily News (date?) The Communist Trail in America (1951)