Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is corroboration of Chambers' word on White. Ex-Communist Agent Elizabeth Bentley told congressional committees that White was a key man in the Red spy ring; that he not only delivered information to her associates, but also pushed Communists into strategic jobs. At a hearing of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on May 29, 1952, there was this exchange between Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson and Miss Bentley...
...Miss Bentley: I would say that two of our best ones were Harry Dexter White and Lauchlin Currie [who was a presidential assistant]. They had an immense amount of influence, and knew people and their word would be accepted when they recommended someone...
...files, the FBI has additional, independent information about White that confirms the Chambers-Bentley testimony. This evidence shows repeated contacts between White and Gregory Silvermaster. One of Attorney General Herbert Brownell's problems: much of this evidence was obtained by wire tapping, and it is inadmissible in court...
...Double Play. On one international policy question in 1945, White found himself playing one hand under the table and one above board. The Russians wanted to print, for use in Germany, occupation marks that would be identical to American occupation currency. Elizabeth Bentley testified that White turned a sample of the currency over to the Communist espionage ring. When that sample failed to serve their purpose, the Russians put pressure on to get the U.S. printing plates released to them officially. White did that too, and the Russians printed millions of occupation marks, some of which were redeemed...
...August 1948, after he had been denounced publicly by Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley, White demanded and got an opportunity to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He sparred magnificently and arrogantly with the committee, got applause from the spectators, all the while admitting that he had been a close friend of at least ten Government workers who had been named as spies. Three days later, at his farm in New Hampshire, White suddenly died of a heart attack. Liberals cried that he was a martyr and used his case as the supreme example of 'witch-hunting...