In 1940, Paul Crouch (later an FBI informant) met with Peters (also Jack Stachel and William Weiner) in Memphis, Tennessee regarding "underground matters," according to his SSIS testimony on October 26, 1951. Of Peters, Crouch said: Mr. CROUCH: I came to Memphis because I had just had discussions in New York with Fred Brown, alias Alpi, J. Peters. <br> Senator EASTLAND: J. Peters was the Communist boss of this country who was over Earl Browder, was he not? <br> Mr. CROUCH: On underground matters, things of that kind, yes. <br> Senator EASTLAND: In fact, he was a Soviet military agent? <br> Mr. CROUCH: Yes, an intelligence agent. He was in charge of all the intelligence work in this country for the international Communist movement. <br> Senator EASTLAND: A direct representative of the Communist International in Moscow? <br> Mr. CROUCH: Yes. <br> Senator EASTLAND: On their payroll? <br> Mr. CROUCH: Yes. <br> Senator EASTLAND: On the payroll of the Russian military secret service? <br> Mr. CROUCH: That is correct. He represented them in this country. Peters continued to work on the CPUSA's Central Committee staff on what a 1947 Soviet Communist party personnel report, called "special assignments." An examination of the Comintern's records turned up two 1943 messages from the GRU referring to a GRU officer in Washington as having come across "a group of workers singled out by the American Comparty CC Committee for informational work and headed by the CC worker 'Peter.'" Though usually called "Peters" in the United States, in Comintern archives, his name is often rendered as "Peter." "Informational work" was GRU parlance for clandestine activity.