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Louise Rosenberg Bransten was a member of the Communist Party and a suspected Soviet spy.

Biography
Bransten was born in San Francisco, the daughter of Abraham Rosenberg and Alice Greenbaum. Bransten inherited a fortune from her family's dried fruit importing business, which operated in sixty-five countries. The family's business had previously been sold to a grocery chain for twenty million dollars.

In 1929 she married Richard Bransten, heir to the MJB Coffee fortune, and their first child was born in 1938.

She became the lover of Soviet vice-consul Grigorii Markovich Kheifetz. J. Robert Oppenheimer met Kheifetz at a cocktail party hosted by Bransten.

Personal life
Her first husband was the writer Richard Bransten and she later married Communist Party activist Lionel Berman (1906-1968).