Word: dexter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When I was first invited to appear before this subcommittee, I thought from what I had read in the newspapers that there was some issue of fact involved on the question of whether Mr. Truman knew about Harry Dexter White's espionage activities at the time he appointed him as executive director for the United States of the International Monetary Fund. I read in the newspapers that after being advised of my speech in Chicago, Mr. Truman stated to the press that he had never read any of the derogatory reports concerning Harry Dexter White to which I referred...
...name of Harry Dexter White was the second name mentioned in the list of names furnished . . . In the meantime, our investigation of White and others mentioned by Miss Bentley and Whittaker Chambers, as well as those individuals on whom we had adverse information from equally reliable sources, continued...
From Nov. 8, 1945 until July 24, 1946, seven communications went to the White House bearing on espionage activities, wherein Harry Dexter White's name was specifically mentioned . . . The FBI, of course, has a duty to evaluate its sources of information. In the 28-page summary concerning White, dated Feb. 1, 1946, delivered to General Vaughan on Feb. 4, 1946, the information contained therein came from a total of 30 sources, the reliability of which had previously been established...
...return to Harry Dexter White. In a conversation on Feb. 21, 1946, the Attorney General [Tom Clark] informed me that he had spoken with the then Secretary of the Treasury, the late Chief Justice Fred Vinson, and the President about White. The Attorney General stated he felt the President should personally tell White that it would be best for him not to serve...
...advised on Feb. 26, 1946 by the Attorney General that he had seen the President and that an effort would be made to remove Harry Dexter White, although the Attorney General expressed" doubt that this would work...