Word: perlo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought there was nothing odd about the fact that he knew several of the people accused by Elizabeth Bentley: George Silverman (a friend of his Harvard days), Victor Perlo, Harry White, Robert Talbot Miller III. Some were economists and he knew "literally hundreds of economists throughout the Government." One friend of Currie's who was no economist was Anatoli Gromov, onetime secretary of the Russian embassy. Miss Bentley testified last week that on one occasion Gromov had given her $2,000 for her information. Currie readily admitted knowing Gromov. "I met him at social occasions and was entertained...
...Shocker. Chambers gave a list of men he described as members of the apparatus. Three of them-John Abt (of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party), Victor Perlo (Wallace leader and onetime key worker for the War Production Board), and Charles Kramer (onetime researcher for Florida's Senator Claude Pepper and West Virginia's Harley Kilgore)-were among those previously named by Courier Elizabeth Bentley TIME, Aug. 9). Chambers had other names: Lee Pressman, onetime New Deal legal eagle, later C.I.O. counsel and currently one of Henry Wallace's left-hand men; Nathan Witt, onetime secretary...
...DDay. In the course of her testimony, Miss Bentley spilled more than 30 names. All were former employees of the Government and most of them, she said, were Communist Party members who supplied information through either Silvermaster or Victor Perlo, a WPB employee. She also told what kind of information she gathered. From agents in the hush-hush Office of Strategic Services "I got all types of highly secret information on what OSS was doing . . . secret negotiations in the Balkans, and that parachutists were being dropped." From George Silverman and one Ludwig Ullman, both in Air Force headquarters...