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==The [[Silvermaster case]]==

==The [[Silvermaster case]]==

[[Image:Fbisilvermasterfilevol15p4.JPG|right|250px|thumb|CPUSA defector [[Louis Budenz]] testified he could name 400 individuals involved in the [[CPUSA#Secret_apparatus|Communist conspiracy]]; <ref>[http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft296nb15t&chunk.id=d0e6193&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e4718&brand=eschol FBI Headquarters File 100-63, Louis Francis Budenz, Internal Security—C, Serial 122.]</ref> Hayden Peake, Curator of the [[CIA]]'s Historical Intelligence Collection stated, "[[Venona]] makes absolutely clear that they had active agents in the [[U.S. State Department]], [[Treasury Department]], [[Justice Department]], Senate committee staffs, the military services, the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS), the [[Manhattan Project]], and the [[White House]], as well as wartime agencies. No modern government was more thoroughly penetrated."<ref>[[Hayen B. Peake]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20060820054409/http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/review/2000/summer/re2-su0.htm ''The Venona Progeny''], Naval War College Review, Summer 2000, Vol. LIII, No. 3. [http://intellit.muskingum.edu/alpha_folder/P_folder/peake.html]</ref>]]

[[Image:Fbisilvermasterfilevol15p4.JPG|right|250px|thumb|CPUSA defector [[Louis Budenz]] testified he could name 400 individuals involved in the [[CPUSA#Secret_apparatus|Communist conspiracy]]; <ref>[http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft296nb15t&chunk.id=d0e6193&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e4718&brand=eschol FBI Headquarters File 100-63, Louis Francis Budenz, Internal Security—C, Serial 122.]</ref> Hayden Peake, Curator of the [[CIA]]'s Historical Intelligence Collection stated, "[[Venona]] makes absolutely clear that they had active agents in the [[U.S. State Department]], [[Treasury Department]], [[Justice Department]], Senate committee staffs, the military services, the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS), the [[Manhattan Project]], and the [[White House]], as well as wartime agencies. No modern government was more thoroughly penetrated."<ref>[[Hayden B. Peake]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20060820054409/http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/review/2000/summer/re2-su0.htm ''The Venona Progeny''], Naval War College Review, Summer 2000, Vol. LIII, No. 3. [http://intellit.muskingum.edu/alpha_folder/P_folder/peake.html]</ref>]]

In November 1945 a courier from a very large [[CPUSA#Secret_apparatus|CPUSA underground apparatus]] which operated in numerous federal agencies throughout [[World War II]], including the [[White House]], defected to the [[FBI]].  The [[KGB]] had removed [[Elizabeth Bentley]] from overseeing at least 80 KGB sources late in the war.  When she realized she knew too much, was no longer of use to the KGB and her life was in danger, she told her story in a deposition.

In November 1945 a courier from a very large [[CPUSA#Secret_apparatus|CPUSA underground apparatus]] which operated in numerous federal agencies throughout [[World War II]], including the [[White House]], defected to the [[FBI]].  The [[KGB]] had removed [[Elizabeth Bentley]] from overseeing at least 80 KGB sources late in the war.  When she realized she knew too much, was no longer of use to the KGB and her life was in danger, she told her story in a deposition.

to the FBI. Bentley was assigned covername "Gregory" to protect her identity, and the highly secret investigation was referred to as "the Gregory Case."   

to the FBI. Bentley was assigned covername "Gregory" to protect her identity, and the highly secret investigation was referred to as "the Gregory Case."