Juliet Stuart Poyntz
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Juliet Stuart Poyntz (originally 'Points') (25 November 1886 ā c. 1937) was an American suffragist, trade unionist and communist spy. As a student and university teacher, Poyntz espoused many radical causes and went on to become a co-founder of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA). Later she began working as an intelligence agent for the Soviet Union, travelling secretly to Moscow just as some of her comrades were being executed in Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, after which she resigned from the party. This is widely assumed to have led to her unexplained disappearance in New York City in June 1937 as the likely victim of an assassination squad, possibly because she had been associating with Trotskyists.
Juliet Stuart Poyntz | |
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Born | Juliet Stuart Points November 25, 1886 |
Disappeared | June 3, 1937 New York City, U.S. |
Status | Missing for 86 years, 10 months and 21 days |
Died | presumably June 3, 1937 (age 50) |
Education | Barnard College (BA) Columbia University (MA) |
Alma mater | Barnard College |
Occupation(s) | suffragist, feminist, trade unionist, socialist, communist, political activist, spy |
Years active | 1909ā1937 |
Employer(s) | various including Barnard College and Communist Party USA |
Agent | GRU |
Known for | unexplained disappearance |
Political party | Socialist Party of America, Communist Party USA |
Spouse | Friedrich Franz Ludwig Glaser |
Relatives | Eulalie Poyntz McClelland (sister) |