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In a unanimous report, the [[United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security|McCarran Committee]] classified Lattimore as a "conscious articulate instrument of the Soviet conspiracy". <ref>US Senate, 82nd Congress, 2nd Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Report No. 2050, p. 224.</ref>
In a unanimous report, the [[United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security|McCarran Committee]] classified Lattimore as a "conscious articulate instrument of the Soviet conspiracy". <ref>US Senate, 82nd Congress, 2nd Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Report No. 2050, p. 224.</ref>
Lattimore wrote a letter of introduction for [[Haakon Chevalier]] to [[KGB]] operative, [[Lauchlin Currie]]. Chevalier was attempting to obtain a Government job during this period of time. Chevalier is a known Soviet Secret Intelligence Service ([[KGB]]) contact and was associated with numerous members of the Communist Party on the West Coast. Currie also recommended Lattimore to [[Franklin Roosevelt|President Roosevelt]] to serve as a special advisor to [[Chiang Kai-shek]]. Currie gave evidence in New York to a grand jury investigating Lattimore's role in the publication by ''[[Amerasia]]'' magazine of secret State Department documents. In December 1952, Lattimore was indicted for perjury.<ref>{{cite book
Lattimore wrote a letter of introduction to [[KGB]] operative [[Lauchlin Currie]] for [[Haakon Chevalier]], who was attempting to obtain a government job. (Chevalier would later try to recruit [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] into the conspiracy to supply the Soviets with the secret of is the atomic bomb.) Currie also recommended Lattimore to [[Franklin Roosevelt|President Roosevelt]] to serve as a special advisor to [[Chiang Kai-shek]]. Currie gave evidence in New York to a grand jury investigating Lattimore's role in the publication by ''[[Amerasia]]'' magazine of secret State Department documents. In December 1952, Lattimore was indicted for perjury.<ref>{{cite book
| last = Buckley, Jr., William F. and Bozell, L. Brent
| last = Buckley, Jr., William F. and Bozell, L. Brent
| year = 1954, 1995 Printing
| year = 1954, 1995 Printing