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Friends of Truman circulated the report that the former President--with the advice and connivance of FBI Chief J. Edger Hoover--allowed White's promotion in order not to tip off the Soviet spy apparatus and allow the FBI to collect more evidence. The story sounded plausible and Truman did not contradict it. But Hoover...
...that Truman was wrong, as Hoover implied, is not the same thing as saying he was disloyal, as some would wish it," Willman added...
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...
...their two hours on the stand, Brownell and Hoover solidly supported Brownell's original statement as to what Truman had known about White, and thoroughly riddled Harry Truman's new explanation-that keeping White was an evidence-seeking operation...
...record of the Brownell-Hoover testimony...