Miller, Robert Talbott, III (1910-1999)

American journalist and later State Department official who, according to the allegations of Elizabeth Bentley, was part of Jacob Golos‘ spy network.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the family of a prominent New England physician, Miller lived in Baltimore, Maryland and then, from 1934 to 1937, was a correspondent for the Chattanooga News in Moscow. While there, he married Jenny Levy, who was also working in Moscow. In 1937-1938, Miller was in Spain as a press agent for the Spanish Republican government. After his return to New York in 1939, he became president of the Hemisphere News Service and editor of its weekly, Hemisphere. In 1941, he moved to Washington, D.C. to work as an analyst for the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) in the Department of Commerce, and later became director of its Division of Reports. In July 1944, Miller transferred to the Near Eastern Division of the U.S. Department of State, from which he resigned in December 1946.
According to FBI surveillance records, Robert Miller had been in contact with Jacob Golos as of February 1941. Elizabeth Bentley claimed that Miller provided information “from the files” of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, but that he “never furnished any information from the files of the State Department.” ¹