John Jacob Abt was an American lawyer and politician, who spent most of his career as chief counsel to the Communist Party USA and was a member of the Communist Party and the Soviet spy network "Ware
"Harry Sacher (left), and John Abt (center), attorneys for the Communist Party and the Daily Worker, are shown along with the paper's copy editor, Max Gordon, as they entered the office of the Director of Internal Revenue for Lower Manhattan." March 29, 1956