Vincent Reno

Franklin Vincent Reno (14 May 1911 – 1 May 1990) was a mathematician and civilian employee at the United States Army Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland in the 1930s.

Reno was a member of the "Karl group" of Soviet spies which was being handled by Whittaker Chambers until 1938.

[6] While doing graduate studies in astronomy at the University of Virginia in 1935 he joined the Communist Party under the name "Lance Clark.

"[5] He then took a job at the national office of the Works Progress Administration, after which he resigned to become a Communist Party organizer in Maryland.

[9] The judge gave Reno a month's delay in reporting for his sentence so he could finish his work on the book.