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...transmitted to Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan, military aide to the President, a report on the general subject of "Soviet Espionage in the United States." . . . This was a secret and highly important report of some 71 pages . . . This report . . . summarizes White's espionage activities in abbreviated form, but no reasonable person can deny that that summary, brief though it may be, constituted adequate warning to anyone who read it of the extreme danger to the security of the country in appointing White to the International Monetary Fund or continuing him in Government in any capacity...
...addition to that fact, I have here a letter from J. Edgar Hoover to General Vaughan a month before that, dated...
...first warning that Harry Dexter White and other Government employees were assisting a Communist espionage ring was sent to the White House on Nov. 8, 1945 by FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. Marked "top secret." the report was sent by special messenger to Brigadier General Harry Hawkins Vaughan...
...reported, the contact man made trips to Washington, D.C. once every two weeks, and would pick up on each occasion an average of 40 rolls of 35-mm. film." He concluded his letter: "An investigation of this matter is being pushed vigorously, but I thought the President and you [Vaughan] would be interested in the foregoing information immediately...
...second FBI report went to the White House. It contained further details and named more spies. A third report, concentrating on White with still more detail, was sent to the White House on Feb. 4, 1946. In his letter accompanying that report, Hoover observed that both Truman and Vaughan had "expressed interest" in the subject, indicating that the earlier reports had been noticed and considered...