Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being in 1933. Others followed. The secret work of cell-members was sometimes pure spying, sometimes subtle influence of policy by advancing careerists. Accused of being early cell members were Alger Hiss, Harold Ware, Victor Perlo, John Abt, Charles Kramer, Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman, Henry Wadleigh '33, and Harry Dexter White. The last two, according to testimony, were not organizational Communists but were willing to play ball with the "apparatus." Other once-prominent government officials later accused of espionage activities were Harold Glasser, Nathan Silvermaster, V. Frank Coe and William L. Ullmann...
Hoover stressed the point that Truman did not adopt that course on his advice. "At no time was the FBI a party to an agreement to promote Harry Dexter White and at no time did the FBI give its approval to such an agreement. Such an agreement ...would be inconceivable." The FBI, he maintains, does not advise but informs However, it is clear that through his reports, and through private conversation with Vinson and Clark, Hoover did advise the Administration of White's dangerous activities and warned them against advancing the security risk to the highly sensitive post...
After Harry Dexter White entered the Treasury Department as a research assistant in 1934, he rose steadily into high position and gained the personal favor of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthan. On the heels of Pearl Harbor, White was empowered under Department Order 43 with "full responsibility for all matters with which the Treasury Department has to deal having a bearing on foreign relations." Under the same order he was to serve as liaison between Treasury and State and manage the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund in international exchange...
...gain the tool which will permit them to prosecute cases in which they lack other types of evidence. If Congress legalizes wiretap evidence, the Justice Department will undoubtedly try to avenge its failure to prove a case against Judith Coplon or to get the grand jury to indict Harry Dexter White...
Without naming Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., he said the Harry Dexter White case had been brought up "by the same politician who engineered the ruthless, reckless attack on the ethics of Senator Taft and his followers in the last Republican Convention." Apparently untroubled by taking the side of the Republican element he had often condemned as "the Old Guard," Stevenson went on to define his stand on the exposure of Communists in Government. "Root out, I say. agents .of this satanic worldwide conspiracy, disclose the mistakes and failures of the past, assess the responsibility, let the chips fall where...