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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>[https://archive.is/8z4ky Time Magazine, ''The White Case Record'', Nov. 30, 1953]. ''Time Magazine'' via ''archive.is''. Retrieved July 6, 2021.</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). ''Federation of American Scientists''. Retrieved July 6, 2021.</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:<ref>[http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/moynihan/appa7.html Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy, Appendix A, 7. The Cold War] (1997). ''Federation of American Scientists''. Retrieved July 6, 2021.</ref>

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>[https://archive.is/8z4ky Time Magazine, ''The White Case Record'', Nov. 30, 1953]. ''Time Magazine'' via ''archive.is''. Retrieved July 6, 2021.</ref> Although 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). ''Federation of American Scientists''. Retrieved July 6, 2021.</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 Sen. [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]] of New York, states in its findings:<ref>[http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/moynihan/appa7.html Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy, Appendix A, 7. The Cold War] (1997). ''Federation of American Scientists''. Retrieved July 6, 2021.</ref>

{{quotebox-float|The complicity of [[Alger Hiss]] of the State Department seems settled. As does that of Harry Dexter White of the Treasury Department.}}

{{quotebox-float|The complicity of [[Alger Hiss]] of the State Department seems settled. As does that of Harry Dexter White of the Treasury Department.}}