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An outspoken opponent of [[communist]] sedition, Brownell recommended to Eisenhower in 1953 that calls to give clemency to [[Julius Rosenberg|Julius]] and [[Ethel Rosenberg]] be rejected.<ref name=chicagotribune/> The Rosenbergs were ultimately executed for conspiring to hand U.S. nuclear secrets to the [[Soviet Union]].   

An outspoken opponent of [[communist]] sedition, Brownell recommended to Eisenhower in 1953 that calls to give clemency to [[Julius Rosenberg|Julius]] and [[Ethel Rosenberg]] be rejected.<ref name=chicagotribune/> The Rosenbergs were ultimately executed for conspiring to hand U.S. nuclear secrets to the [[Soviet Union]].   

Brownell and Sen. [[Joseph McCarthy]], a Wisconsin Republican senator who exposed communist infiltration of the [[United States State Department]] and the [[U.S. Army]], alleged that [[President Truman]] had known that Treasury Undersecretary [[Harry Dexter White]] was a Soviet spy when Truman appointed him as the first head of the [[International Monetary Fund]].<ref>[http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,823119,00.html Time Magazine, ''The White Case Record'', Nov. 30, 1953].</ref>  This has now been refuted by declassified documents through the [[Freedom of Information Act]] which attest Truman and the White House had not known of the existence of the Venona project which identified Soviet spies in government.<ref>[http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/moynihan/foreword.html Chairman's Forward, Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy] (1997).</ref>  The 1997 [[bipartisan]] [[Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy]], chaired by Senator [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], states in its findings,

Brownell and Sen. [[Joseph McCarthy]], a Wisconsin Republican senator who exposed communist infiltration of the [[United States State Department]] and the [[U.S. Army]], alleged that [[President Truman]] had known that Treasury Undersecretary [[Harry Dexter White]] was a Soviet spy when Truman appointed him as the first head of the [[International Monetary Fund]].<ref>[http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,823119,00.html Time Magazine, ''The White Case Record'', Nov. 30, 1953].</ref>  This has now been refuted by declassified documents through the [[Freedom of Information Act]] which attest Truman and the White House had not known of the existence of the [[Army Signals Intelligence]] (forerunner of the [[NSA]]) [[Venona project]] which identified Soviet spies in government.<ref>[http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/moynihan/foreword.html Chairman's Forward, Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy] (1997).</ref> [[FBI]] director [[J. Edgar Hoover]] did warn Truman that White was under suspicion, but Truman dismissed Hoover's allegations.   The 1997 [[bipartisan]] [[Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy]], chaired by Senator [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], states in its findings,

:''The complicity of [[Alger Hiss]] of the State Department seems settled. As does that of Harry Dexter White of the Treasury Department.''<ref>[http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/moynihan/appa7.html  Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy, Appendix A, 7. The Cold War] (1997).</ref>

:''The complicity of [[Alger Hiss]] of the State Department seems settled. As does that of Harry Dexter White of the Treasury Department.''<ref>[http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/moynihan/appa7.html  Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy, Appendix A, 7. The Cold War] (1997).</ref>

Brownell also worked secretly to undermine some of the "excesses" of McCarthy.<ref name=encyclopedia.com/>

Brownell also worked secretly to undermine some of the "excesses" of McCarthy.<ref name=encyclopedia.com/>