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Roosevelt biographer John T. Flynn remarked of Hopkins,
Roosevelt biographer John T. Flynn remarked of Hopkins,
{{Cquote|Men of high intellectual and spiritual caliber soon make themselves disagreeable to rulers who want abject subservience in their subalterns. They soon find the atmosphere of the court repulsive. They either depart or are dismissed. In the end, the only ones who remain are men of the type of Hopkins. ...one by one the abler men with some sense of personal dignity who were unequal to the role of [[sycophant]] drifted away ...The palace guard that survived were such men as Harry Hopkins... [[David Niles]] and [[Henry Wallace]]... men who were not interested in policy but only in discerning Roosevelt's pet mental drifts." <ref>''Roosevelt Myth'', Flynn, Book 1, Ch. 6.</ref>}}
{{Cquote|Men of high intellectual and spiritual caliber soon make themselves disagreeable to rulers who want abject subservience in their subalterns. They soon find the atmosphere of the court repulsive. They either depart or are dismissed. In the end, the only ones who remain are men of the type of Hopkins. ...one by one the abler men with some sense of personal dignity who were unequal to the role of [[sycophant]] drifted away ...The palace guard that survived were such men as Harry Hopkins... [[David Niles]] and [[Henry Wallace]]... men who were not interested in policy but only in discerning Roosevelt's pet mental drifts." <ref>''Roosevelt Myth'', Flynn, Book 1, Ch. 6.</ref>}}
===The Zarubin Affair===
In 1943, [[Vasily Zarubin]], NKVD station chief in the U.S. from 1941 to 1944, was transferred from the Soviet Embassy in Washington to the San Francisco consulate, under cover as a diplomat called "Zubilin." Shortly thereafter, Zubilin gave Soviet agent "Steve Nelson" ([[Stepan Mesarosh]]) ten bills of unknown denominations.<ref>Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 81st Cong., 1st sess., [http://ia311304.us.archive.org/1/items/hearingsregarding1949unit/hearingsregarding1949unit_bw.pdf Hearings Regarding Steve Nelson] (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949), pp VIII-IX (PDF pp. 12-13)</ref> This interaction was recorded an FBI "bug" planted in Nelson's residence.<ref>Athan G. Theoharis, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=C3_eAAAAMAAJ Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counter-Intelligence But Promoted the Politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War Years]'' (Ivan Dee, 2002) ISBN 1566634202, p. 62</ref> On May 7, 1943, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover informed Hopkins:
{{cquote|Through a highly confidential and reliable source it has been determined that on April 10, 1943, a Russian who is an agent of the Communist International paid a sum of money to Steve Nelson, National Committeeman of the Communist Party, USA, at the latter’s home in Oakland, California. The money was reportedly paid to Nelson for the purpose of placing Communist Party members and Comintern agents in industries engaged in secret war production for the United States Government so that information could be obtained for transmittal to the Soviet Union.<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/9.gif/image.gif 9. Hoover to Hopkins, 7 May, 1943], [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/9a.gif/image.gif Page 2], Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, eds., ''[https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/venona.htm Venona: Soviet Espionage and The American Response, 1939-1957]'' (NSA/CIA, 1996)</ref>}}
Instead of notifying the President of this atomic espionage, Hopkins immediately tipped off the Soviets that the FBI was onto them. A document in the KGB files copied by former KGB agent Vasili Mitrokhin and smuggled out of Russia by British intelligence in 1992 reveals that Hopkins
{{cquote|privately warned the Soviet embassy in Washington that the FBI had bugged a secret meeting at which Zarubin (also known as Zubilin) had passed money to Steve Nelson, a leading member of the U.S. Communist underground.<ref>Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, ''[ The Sword and the Shield, The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB]'' (Basic Books, 2000) ISBN 0465003125, p. 111</ref>}}
In an endnote (Note 64, p. 594), Mitrokhin and his co-author, [http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/cma1001@cam.ac.uk Cambridge University Professor] Christopher Andrew ("[http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2009/08/10/the-debate-over-soviet-espionage-what-nicholas-lemann-of-the-new-yorker-gets-wrong/ dean of British historians of Soviet espionage]") comment:
{{cquote|Hopkins had been personally briefed by Hoover on Zarubin’s visit to Nelson (Benson and Warner (Eds.), ''VENONA'', Document 9). Hoover would doubtless have been outraged had he known that Hopkins had informed the Soviet embassy.}}
This incident persuaded Ray Wannall, former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, that Hopkins was indeed a Soviet agent,<ref>Reed Irvine, "[http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/1999/10a.htm The Scandal Of The Century," ''AIM Report]'', October 1999</ref> Just as [[Iskhak Akhmerov]], the leading [[NKVD]] illegal in the [[United States]], had claimed in a lecture before a [[KGB]] audience.<ref>Allen Weinstein, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YRyoAAAAIAAJ&pgis Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case]'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978) ISBN 0394495462 p. 325</ref>
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