Frank Coe (government official)

Virginius Frank Coe
Born1907
Richmond, Virginia, United States
DiedJune 2, 1980(1980-06-02) (aged 73)
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Johns Hopkins University

Virginius Frank Coe (1907 – June 2, 1980) was a United States government official who was identified by Soviet defectors Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers as being an underground member of the Communist Party[1] and as belonging to the Soviet spy group known as the Silvermaster ring.

  1. ^ Harvey E. Klehr and Ronald Radosh, The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1996) ISBN 0-8078-2245-0, p. 21