Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that greeted the 1948 charges against White and Alger Hiss. This time the fact of espionage was more or less admitted. Harry Truman acknowledged that White was disloyal, and even the New Republic said: "There can be little doubt that White was guilty of the actions described by Miss Bentley.'' i.e., passed secrets to the Communists and influenced U.S. policy according to Communists' wishes...
...four miles out of his way to do so. Ullmann's hobby was photography. He once advised an associate to buy an Exakta camera because it had an attachment that was most useful in photographing documents. Ullmann shared a house with Nathan Gregory Silvermaster. named by Elizabeth Bentley as the head of a Communist spy ring. Silvermaster and Ullmann have both refused to affirm or deny that they were Communists, or that they were spies...
Halperin's refusal to testify whether he was a Communist came during Senator Jenner's investigation last June. He also refused to testify if he knew Elizabeth Bentley, Alger Hiss, or others named in the espionage ring...
Sincere Regret. In reviving the case, Brownell said that the FBI in December 1945 sent to President Truman, through his aide, Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, a written report saying that former Communist Elizabeth Bentley had said that White was spying for the Russians. The next month Truman promoted White to executive director for the U.S. in the International Monetary Fund...
...April 1947, White left his Monetary Fund job in a hurry; Harry Truman accepted the resignation "with, sincere regret and considerable reluctance." Later that year, White was called to testify before a New York grand jury. After the Bentley and Chambers charges against White and others were made public in 1948, Harry Truman tried to shrug off the accusations as "Red herring...