Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Analyzing White's motives, Chambers found that the Treasury man "enjoyed the feeling that he was in direct touch with 'big, important people.' " In his book, Witness, Chambers recalled White in this passage: "There is Harry Dexter White. I see him sauntering down Connecticut Avenue at night, a slight, furtive figure. I am loitering near the Ordway Theater, where he has insisted (probably out of laziness) that I meet him for the third time in a row. Yet he is nervous at the contact, and idles along, constantly peeping behind him, too conspicuously watchful...
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...
From the day he went to the Treasury, Harry Dexter White stopped pushing and scheming for only about a year. That was after the Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939, when he seemed to lose interest in the big political picture. His normally intense, hard-driving division relaxed. Before, he had guarded his staff jealously; in that year he began to lend his economists to other agencies. He explained to one of his unoccupied staff that his group had nothing to do with defense work...
...Monetary Fund. Truman blurted that he knew "nothing about" the FBI report that Brownell used as the basis of his charge. Then he said that "as soon as we found White was disloyal, we fired him." Three days later, a new witness entered the strange case of Harry Dexter White...
Harold Glasser, 48, was brought into the Treasury Department by Harry Dexter White, moved from one key job to another, was a top adviser to State Secretary Marshall on the explosive Trieste issue at the 1947 meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in Moscow. Chambers named Glasser as the Soviet agent assigned to "control" White and make him turn over to the Communists "everything of importance that came into his hands." Glasser resigned from Treasury in December 1947, was recommended by Dean Acheson and Treasury Secretary John Snyder for a place as economist with the Council of Jewish Federations...