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==Post war==

==Post war==

[[Image:Washeveningstarmay41946.JPG|right|thumb|''Washington Evening Star'' May 4, 1946 announcement of White's appointment to head the [[IMF]].  President Truman said, "I am confident that in your new position you will add distinction to your already distinguished career with Treasury."  The appointment came after the [[White House]] had been alerted to White's espionage activity.]]

[[Image:Washeveningstarmay41946.JPG|right|thumb|''Washington Evening Star'' May 4, 1946 announcement of White's appointment to head the [[IMF]].  President Truman said, "I am confident that in your new position you will add distinction to your already distinguished career with Treasury."  The appointment came after the [[White House]] had been alerted by [[J. Edgar Hoover]] to White's suspected espionage activity.]]

On December 4, 1945, the FBI transmitted to President Truman a report entitled "Soviet Espionage in the United States." The report summarized White's espionage activities. Copies of the report were sent to Attorney General [[Tom C. Clark|Thomas Clark]] too. The evidence indicated a substantial spy ring operating within the Government and involving White. Six weeks later President Truman, on Jan. 23, 1946, publicly announced his nomination of Harry Dexter White for appointment to head the International Monetary Fund.

On December 4, 1945, the FBI transmitted to President Truman a report entitled "Soviet Espionage in the United States." The report summarized White's espionage activities. Copies of the report were sent to Attorney General [[Tom C. Clark|Thomas Clark]] too. The evidence indicated a substantial spy ring operating within the Government and involving White. Six weeks later President Truman, on Jan. 23, 1946, publicly announced his nomination of Harry Dexter White for appointment to head the International Monetary Fund.

In a memorandum dated 15 October 1950 White was [[conclusive]]ly identified in the [[Venona]] papers as a Soviet agent code named "Jurist".<ref>Posthumous [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/FBI_Memorandum_identifying_Harry_Dexter_White_as_agent_Jurist  FBI Memorandum conclusively identifies Harry Dexter White as KGB Agent Jurist] (1950).</ref> Venona ciphers quote him as saying he was willing for any self-sacrifice on behalf of the [[KGB]], but was afraid that his activities, if exposed, might lead to a political scandal and have an effect on the 1944 Presidential election. In 1953 [[J. Edgar Hoover]] convinced [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] [[Herbert Brownell, Jr.|Brownell]] that White was a spy. White's bronze bust was ignominiously removed to the IMF's basement.

In a memorandum dated 15 October 1950 White was [[conclusive]]ly identified in the [[Venona]] papers as a Soviet agent code named "Jurist".<ref>Posthumous [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/FBI_Memorandum_identifying_Harry_Dexter_White_as_agent_Jurist  FBI Memorandum conclusively identifies Harry Dexter White as KGB Agent Jurist] (1950).</ref> Venona ciphers quote him as saying he was willing for any self-sacrifice on behalf of the [[KGB]], but was afraid that his activities, if exposed, might lead to a political scandal and have an effect on the 1944 Presidential election. In 1953 [[J. Edgar Hoover]] convinced [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] [[Herbert Brownell, Jr.|Brownell]] that White was a spy. White's bronze bust was ignominiously removed to the IMF's basement.

In 1953, Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] and Attorney General [[Herbert Brownell, Jr.]] alleged that Truman had known White was a Soviet spy when he appointed him to the IMF.<ref>[http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,823119,00.html Time Magazine, ''The White Case Record'', Nov. 30, 1953].</ref> However, this has now been refuted by declassified documents through the [[Freedom of Information Act]] which attest President Truman and the White House had not known of the existence of the Venona project.<ref>[http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/moynihan/foreword.html Chairman's Forward, Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy] (1997).</ref>  

In 1953, Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] and Attorney General [[Herbert Brownell, Jr.]] alleged that Truman had known White was a Soviet spy when he appointed him to the IMF.<ref>[http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,823119,00.html Time Magazine, ''The White Case Record'', Nov. 30, 1953].</ref> However, this has now been refuted by declassified documents through the [[Freedom of Information Act]] which attest President Truman and the White House had not known of the existence of the the [[Army Signals Intelligence]] (forerunner of the [[NSA]]) Venona project.<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,

The 1997 [[bipartisan]] [[Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy]], chaired by Senator [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], states in its findings,