Abraham A. Heller

)[6] In 1910, Heller co-founded the International Oxygen Company[5] in New York City and served as its general manager.

"[2] In late 1919, Heller boasted that 2,500 American firms had expressed interest in doing business with the new USSR,[11] while meatpackers in Chicago (including Swift & Co.) denied that they would trade with "enemies of the United States.

"[3] In 1924, Heller co-founded, financed, and owned International Publishers, which printed or imported books and pamphlets from the USSR, while Alexander Trachtenberg served as "manager, editor, salesman.

[5] In 1927, Philip Fried, general manager, said that Samuel Heller, president of Heller & Son, had signed a contract with the Russky Samotzvet (Soviet State Trust) for rights to mine the "vast emerald fields" in the Urals mountains in the USSR, in return for American capital and management of a joint mining operation.

[15] In 1938, Heller ("of Chappaqua, New York") served as purchasing agent for the North American Committee to Aid Spain, which had raised more than $1 million in cash and materials.

[5] In 1950, Heller was a director of the Jefferson School of Social Sciences (successor to the New York Workers School as well as president of People's Radio Foundation, Inc. Directors of People's Radio included Joseph R. Brodsky as well as Rockwell Kent and Peter Shipka of the International Workers Order.

[19] During testimony to the Dies Committee, Trachtenberg stated the Heller was a "very wealthy man" and "a millionaire before the Russian Revolution.