Henry Collins (official)

He was a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Washington D.C.–based Ware group, along with Alger Hiss, Lee Pressman, Harry Dexter White and others.

[3] During World War II, Collins served as a captain in the Army, fought at the Battle of the Bulge, and won three ribbons and "five European campaign stars."

Immediately after the war, he worked for six months as a district official for displaced persons in Germany as part of the States Department's division of occupied territories.

[2][3][7][8][9][10] In August 1948, as the Hiss Case began, he appeared under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and would answer no questions of substance.

[3][4] In 1950, Ware lived at the San Cristobal Valley Ranch near Los Alamos, New Mexico, and its atomic proving grounds.

[5] Collins died age 57 on May 25, 1961, at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx after a car crash two days earlier.