Ludwig Lore (June 26, 1875July 8, 1942) was an
American socialist magazine editor, newspaper writer, lecturer, and politician, best remembered for his tenure as editor of the socialist
New Yorker Volkszeitung and role as a factional leader in the early American
communist movement. During the middle 1930s, he wrote the daily foreign affairs column "Behind the Cables" for the
New York Post. Later still, he was charged with having secretly worked recruiting potential agents and gathering information on behalf of the
Soviet foreign intelligence network.