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...line-up: parsons, l.w; Jones, D., l.i.; Loring, d.f.' Guild, r.i.; Silverman, r.w.; Hughes, lhb; McCormick, chb; Johnson, rhb.; Jones C., fb.; Beatley, fb; Vincent...
...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...
Miss Bentley calmly said that Currie was one of those who had given her information, although she never had direct contact with him, and thought that he was not a Communist. She said Currie and one George Silverman, a former Government employee, were "very good friends-they went to Harvard together." Silverman, she said, reported Currie's information to Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, who worked at the Board of Economic Warfare and was the Communist she saw most frequently in Washington...
...recalled, "Silvermaster said that Currie dashed into Silverman's home and said the Americans were on the verge of breaking the Russian code." That information made the Russians "very excited." They asked her to find out which code; she never could...
...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, she got some details of the B-29 bomber, data on other new types of planes, and the destinations of planes to war theaters. Between nervous puffs on a cigarette, she said: "We knew about D-day long before...