Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remington and his wife, said Miss Bentley, were dues-paying Communists. She had met them with Golos in New York City. When she was in Washington she would telephone him and say, "This is Helen" (to some others she was "Joan" or "Mary") and arrange to meet him. Some times it was at a drugstore across from the Willard Hotel; some times it was at the National Gallery of Art. Did Remington understand what she wanted? Said Elizabeth Bentley: "Certainly." At their meetings, Remington was "very nervous, very jittery, obviously scared to death that anybody would find...
...Around the White House." That ended Miss Bentley's testimony before one committee. Next day she appeared before J. Parnell Thomas' House Un-American Activities Committee. There she got down to naming names. Who was that "man around the White House?" Elizabeth Bentley's reply startled her audience. He was, she said, Lauchlin Currie, one of Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisers, a White House special assistant for six years who had twice headed missions to China...
...Miss Bentley calmly said that Currie was one of those who had given her information, although she never had direct contact with him, and thought that he was not a Communist. She said Currie and one George Silverman, a former Government employee, were "very good friends-they went to Harvard together." Silverman, she said, reported Currie's information to Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, who worked at the Board of Economic Warfare and was the Communist she saw most frequently in Washington...
...added another once-big name to her list of informants: Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, one of the architects of the World Bank. Like Currie, said Miss Bentley, Harry White helped put Communists in strategic offices and supplied information to her through Silvermaster. She added: "Mr. White knew where it was going but preferred not to mention the fact...
...DDay. In the course of her testimony, Miss Bentley spilled more than 30 names. All were former employees of the Government and most of them, she said, were Communist Party members who supplied information through either Silvermaster or Victor Perlo, a WPB employee. She also told what kind of information she gathered. From agents in the hush-hush Office of Strategic Services "I got all types of highly secret information on what OSS was doing . . . secret negotiations in the Balkans, and that parachutists were being dropped." From George Silverman and one Ludwig Ullman, both in Air Force headquarters...