===Elizabeth Bentley===
In November 1945, Father Charles F. Cronin, a priest instructed by the [http://www.usccb.org/ United States Conference of Catholic Bishops] to prepare a study of the spread of Communism in the United States,<ref>John T. Donovan, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=xhN6dYI6SIcC Crusader in the Cold War: a biography of Fr. John F. Cronin, S.S. (1908-1994)]'' (Peter Lang, 2005) ISBN 0820474134, p. 33</ref> reported, "In the State Department, the most influential Communist has been Alger Hiss."<ref>John F. Cronin, S.S., "[http://mdhistory.net/hiss/cronin-report.pdf The Problem of American Communism in 1945]," p. 49 (PDF p. 58)</ref>
Meanwhile, an extensive FBI investigation helped develop a great deal of evidence verifying Chambers’ statements and [http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/january/a-byte-out-of-history-the-alger-hiss-story revealing Hiss’ cover-ups]. On November 27, the Bureau disseminated a secret report to the State Department, the Attorney General, and the Truman White House, reporting Chambers' identification of Hiss as a secret member of the Communist underground apparatus in contact with the Ware group.<ref>FBI Report: [http://www.education-research.org/PDFs/SOVIET%20REPORT.pdf Soviet Espionage Activities in the United States Between World War I and World War II], November 27, 1945, p. 13</ref> Three days later, defecting Soviet courier [[Elizabeth Bentley]] advised FBI investigators that [[Victor Perlo]] told her that [[Harold Glasser]] had been taken away from the “[[Perlo group]]” and turned over to a Russian “by some American in some governmental agency in Washington.”<ref>Statement of Elizabeth Terrell Bentley (FBI file: [[#refSilv6|Silvermaster, Vol. 6]]), [[#refSilv6.106|p. 105 (PDF p. 106)]]. Cf. [[#refHK99|Haynes, Klehr 1999]]: 173</ref>
[[Image:Red star order.jpg|thumb|125px|left|Alger Hiss and Harold Glasser were awarded the Order of the Red Star for their loyalty to the Soviet Union.]]
Bentley's unlikely account was corroborated by the previously-cited April 25, 1945 memo from [[Pavel Fitin]], head of [[NKVD]] foreign intelligence, to NKVD Chief Vsevolod Merkulov, noting that Glasser had worked for both the [[NKVD]] and [[GRU]]: