Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 on the part of the FBI would be inconceivable...
...been the intent of the FBI to handle the Harry Dexter White and other related cases solely as an intelligence operation, the widespread dissemination of information that was furnished to various branches of the Government by the FBI would not have been undertaken...
...Harry Dexter White case, one of the most important dramas of recent U.S. politics, reached a climax-and firm ground-last week with the testimony of Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. The case was not settled or ended because the basic conflict underlying it still goes on. But it had come to a point where the nation could take stock...
...Diversionary Tactic. The uproar began on Nov. 6 when Brownell, in a speech, told the Executives Club of Chicago: "Harry Dexter White was known to be a Communist spy by the very people who appointed him to the most sensitive and important position he ever held in Government service." This, added Brownell, was evidence of the "persistent delusion that Communism in the Government of the U.S. was only a red herring," and of the "blindness which inflicted the former Administration on this matter...
When Brownell finished, G-Man Hoover took the stand. In an eight-month period beginning Nov. 8, 1945> he said, the FBI had sent seven communications to the White House discussing Harry Dexter White's espionage activities. Hoover had also told his direct superior, Attorney General Tom C. Clark, that it would be unwise to permit White to serve in the international monetary job. Snapped the FBI chief: "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...