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[[Philip Jaffe]], who in 1945 would plead guilty to "conspiracy to embezzle, steal and purloin" government property in the ''Amerasia'' case,<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,812633-3,00.html The Strange Case of Amerasia]," ''Time'', Monday, June 12, 1950</ref> said he was converted to Communism by Chi,<ref>Philip J. Jaffe, ''The Amerasia Case from 1945 to the Present'' (New York: Philip J. Jaffe, 1979), p. 1</ref> whom he judged "an exceptionally able propagandist for the cause of Chinese Communism."<ref>Philip J. Jaffe, ''The Amerasia Case from 1945 to the Present'' (New York: Philip J. Jaffe, 1979), p. 2</ref> American Communist [[Sidney Rittenberg]] (who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s and remained after the country fell to the Communists) concurred, describing Chi as “the best revolutionary propagandist of the lot,” who focused on making his English “smooth, appealing, and convincing to the Western reader.”<ref>Sidney Rittenberg and Amanda Bennett, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=_vTLJpWj-0wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22%27%27The+Man+Who+Stayed+Behind%22&sig=Q5cPux6I4-IK0xjw3mfAX991GAI#PPA253,M1 The Man Who Stayed Behind]'' (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001), ISBN 0822326671, p. 253</ref>

[[Philip Jaffe]], who in 1945 would plead guilty to "conspiracy to embezzle, steal and purloin" government property in the ''Amerasia'' case,<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,812633-3,00.html The Strange Case of Amerasia]," ''Time'', Monday, June 12, 1950</ref> said he was converted to Communism by Chi,<ref>Philip J. Jaffe, ''The Amerasia Case from 1945 to the Present'' (New York: Philip J. Jaffe, 1979), p. 1</ref> whom he judged "an exceptionally able propagandist for the cause of Chinese Communism."<ref>Philip J. Jaffe, ''The Amerasia Case from 1945 to the Present'' (New York: Philip J. Jaffe, 1979), p. 2</ref> American Communist [[Sidney Rittenberg]] (who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s and remained after the country fell to the Communists) concurred, describing Chi as “the best revolutionary propagandist of the lot,” who focused on making his English “smooth, appealing, and convincing to the Western reader.”<ref>Sidney Rittenberg and Amanda Bennett, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=_vTLJpWj-0wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22%27%27The+Man+Who+Stayed+Behind%22&sig=Q5cPux6I4-IK0xjw3mfAX991GAI#PPA253,M1 The Man Who Stayed Behind]'' (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001), ISBN 0822326671, p. 253</ref>

Through the influence of U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury [[Harry Dexter White]] (who was also a Soviet agent),<ref>[http://Ultra-Secret.info/PDFs/venona.pdf FBI Memorandum: Ladd to Hoover, October 16, 1950 (PDF p. 16)]</ref> Chi secured an appointment as confidential secretary to China's Finance Minister H. H. Kung,<ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), ISBN 0300077718, p. 140; John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''In Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage'' (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003), p. 289</ref> in which post "Chi no doubt exercised considerable influence over the KMT's disastrous monetary policy"<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, ''The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), p. 22</ref> and "disrupted Chiang Kai-shek's regime from within."<ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), ISBN 0300077718, p. 140</ref>

Through the influence of U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury [[Harry Dexter White]] (who was also a Soviet agent),<ref>[http://Ultra-Secret.info/PDFs/venona.pdf FBI Memorandum: Ladd to Hoover, October 16, 1950 (PDF p. 16)]</ref> Chi secured an appointment as confidential secretary to China's Finance Minister H. H. Kung,<ref>[[John Earl Haynes]] and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), ISBN 0300077718, p. 140; John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''In Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage'' (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003), p. 289</ref> in which post "Chi no doubt exercised considerable influence over the KMT's disastrous monetary policy"<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, ''The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), p. 22</ref> and "disrupted Chiang Kai-shek's regime from within."<ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), ISBN 0300077718, p. 140</ref>

In 1944, Chi shared a house in Chungking with U.S. Treasury attaché (and Soviet agent) <ref>[http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page53.html Alexander Vassiliev’s Own Translation of his Notes on Anatoly Gorsky’s December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks], October 2005</ref><ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/04_Jan_1945_R3_m3_p2.gif 14 KGB New York to Moscow 4 January 1945, p. 2]</ref> [[Solomon Adler]] and U.S. State Department Foreign Service Officer and so-called "China Hand" [[John Stewart Service]],<ref>S. Rpt. 2050, 82d Cong., 2d sess., Serial 11574, pursuant to S. Res. 306, Institute of Pacific Relations (Hearings July 25, 1951–June 20, 1952 by the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary)</ref> who would be arrested the following year in the ''Amerasia'' scandal after passing confidential government documents to Jaffe.<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996) ISBN 0-8078-2245-0, p. 131</ref>

In 1944, Chi shared a house in Chungking with U.S. Treasury attaché (and Soviet agent) <ref>[http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page53.html Alexander Vassiliev’s Own Translation of his Notes on Anatoly Gorsky’s December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks], October 2005</ref><ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/04_Jan_1945_R3_m3_p2.gif 14 KGB New York to Moscow 4 January 1945, p. 2]</ref> [[Solomon Adler]] and U.S. State Department Foreign Service Officer and so-called "China Hand" [[John Stewart Service]],<ref>S. Rpt. 2050, 82d Cong., 2d sess., Serial 11574, pursuant to S. Res. 306, Institute of Pacific Relations (Hearings July 25, 1951–June 20, 1952 by the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary)</ref> who would be arrested the following year in the ''Amerasia'' scandal after passing confidential government documents to Jaffe.<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996) ISBN 0-8078-2245-0, p. 131</ref>