Paul Wohl
Paul Wohl was a German-born journalist and political commentator.
Background
Paul Wohl was born in 1901 in Berlin.Career
In 1938, Wohl came to the United States as a correspondent for Czechoslovak newspapers. He worked for the Christian Science Monitor from 1941 until 1979, when he retired. He also contributed to the New York Herald Tribune, The Nation, Barron's, and Commonweal.In the mid-1920s, Wohl met Soviet spy Walter Krivitsky. Months after Krivitsky defected, Wohl left Europe for the States and became Krivitsky's literary agent. Wohl helped the non-English-speaking Krivitsky write his memoir In Stalin's Secret Service. At the time of its publication, they argued about fees owed to Wohl and severed their connection.