He has variously given his birth date as November 17. 1907. and November 17. 1912. He claims derivative citizenship from his father. Isaac Lifshitz. who was naturalized February 21. 1929. but it is obvious that if Leon Davis was born in 1907. as he has formally stated on more than one occasion. he was more than 21 years old at the time of his fathers naturalization. Davis has claimed to have been granted citizenship in Bronx Supreme Court in May of 1927. but this claim cannot be verified from court records. A sergeant in the Communist Undercover Squad of the Detroit Police Department testified under oath before the Dies Committee. in 1938. that Leon Davis was one of the Detroit Communists who fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.
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