Bela Gold was born on 30 January 1915, in Kolozsvár (then in Austria-Hungary, now Cluj-Napoca, in Romania).
[1] In the early 1940s, Gold began work at the Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization, while his wife Sonya worked in government as well, for a time for Harry Dexter White.
[2] The Golds were spied upon by J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation for a time in the 1940s.
[3][4] The Golds came to testify at the House Unamerican Activities Committee because of the accusations of Communist Party and Soviet intelligence defector Elizabeth Bentley.
[2] John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev wrote a book published in 2009 claiming that the Golds were recruited to give information to Soviet agents.