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In Spring 1948, Truman aide Stephen J. Spingarn questioned Whittaker Chambers, an admitted former Soviet espionage agent, about Harry Dexter White: "Chambers ... told me that he didn't believe Harry White was a Communist; he believed that he was a man who thought he was smarter than the Communists, and he could use them, but really they used him."
As does that of Harry Dexter White of the Treasury Department." [67] In his 1998 book, United States Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan expressed certainty about Hiss's identification by Venona as a Soviet spy, writing "Hiss was indeed a Soviet agent and appears to have been regarded by Moscow as its most important." [68]
In a twist of history, Harry Dexter White would participate in the Bretton Woods Conference, which created the American-led, post-war financial and economic order. [36] Although White was sympathetic to the Soviet Union, he was still capitalist in his economic thinking, and there was only so much he could do to benefit the Soviet Union at a ...
After early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938), ... Harry Dexter White: Director of Division of Monetary Research at the US ...
Harry Dexter White, [2] senior U.S. Treasury department official, primary designer of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Ruth Beverly Wilson [2] Ignacy Witczak** [2] [13] Ilya Elliott Wolston [2] Flora Don Wovschin [2] Jones Orin York [2] Daniel Abraham Zaret, Spanish Civil War veteran [2] Mark Zborovski, anthropologist [2]
Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, head of the IMF which he helped establish along with the World Bank; highest placed Soviet asset in U.S. government [48] Bill Weisband, U.S. Army Signals Security Agency; Nathaniel Weyl, joined Communist Party USA with Perlo at Columbia, confessed to espionage in Senate hearings
Harry Dexter White (below) contributed materials to Chambers but not as part of the Ware Group. Silvermaster spy ring: The Silvermaster Spy Ring was led by Harry Dexter White, assistant secretary of the Treasury and the second most influential member of the Treasury department. His job was to aid placement of Soviet spies within the United ...
The White House also ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle, based on the belief that the consulate was serving as a key base of operations for the Russian intelligence operations in the U.S. [42] U.S. officials at the time estimated over 100 Russian spies posing as diplomats in the United States prior to the order. [43]