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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

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>}}

{{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, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=9TWUAQ7Xof8C 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:

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.}}

{{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.}}