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The '''Nye Committee''' more formally known as the '''Special Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry''' or sometimes the '''Senate Munitions Committee''' was established on April 12, 1934 because of continuing public disillusionment over the final outcome of [[World War I]] and distrust of those who had profited from the war.  These weapons’ suppliers had reaped enormous profits at the cost of more than 53,000 American battle deaths.  As local conflicts reignited in Europe through the early 1930s, suggesting the possibility of a second world war, concern spread that these “merchants of death” would again drag the United States into a struggle that was none of its business. Although World War I had been over for 16 years, the inquiry promised to reopen an intense debate about whether the nation should ever have gotten involved in that costly conflict.

The '''Nye Committee''' more formally known as the '''Special Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry''' or sometimes the '''Senate Munitions Committee''' was established on April 12, 1934 because of continuing public disillusionment over the final outcome of [[World War I]] and distrust of those who had profited from the war.  These weapons’ suppliers had reaped enormous profits at the cost of more than 53,000 American battle deaths.  As local conflicts reignited in Europe through the early 1930s, suggesting the possibility of a second world war, concern spread that these “merchants of death” would again drag the United States into a struggle that was none of its business. Although World War I had been over for 16 years, the inquiry promised to reopen an intense debate about whether the nation should ever have gotten involved in that costly conflict.

[[Alger Hiss]], an agent of [[Soviet Military Intelligence]] (GRU), served as legal assistant to the committee. [[Lee Pressman]], another Soviet agent who at that time was the General Counsel for the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administratiodddybbascabbsbcjasbjckbsakjbcjkabsfdbsn]], got Hiss the appointment.<ref>Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky, ''Seeds of Treason'', NY: Funk and WagnalKFNKDSSUBUKVDBVSKUBKUVDBSUVSDVSUDSDKUVBDUVKSDBJBSDls, 1950, [http://www.americandeception.com/index.php?action=downloadpdf&photo=/PDFsml_AD/Seeds_Of_Treason-Ralph_de_Toledano_and_Victor_Lasky-1950-278pgs-POL.sml.pdf&id=343&PHPSESSID=b964065077a1de195DSVDSDVFVDDSCDSVS38c4c7b1cf9e825 pgs. 56 - 72] pdf.</ref>

[[Alger Hiss]], an agent of [[Soviet Military Intelligence]] (GRU), served as legal assistant to the committee. [[Lee Pressman]], another Soviet agent who at that time was the General Counsel for the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]], got Hiss the appointment.<ref>Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky, ''Seeds of Treason'', NY: Funk and Wagnalls, 1950, [http://www.americandeception.com/index.php?action=downloadpdf&photo=/PDFsml_AD/Seeds_Of_Treason-Ralph_de_Toledano_and_Victor_Lasky-1950-278pgs-POL.sml.pdf&id=343&PHPSESSID=b964065077a1de19538c4c7b1cf9e825 pgs. 56 - 72] pdf.</ref>

==Purpose==

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