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On June 6 1945, 6 persons, including three U.S. government officials, were arrested on conspiracy and espionage charges related to possession of roughly 1000 stolen classified Government documents in the offices of ''[[Amerasia]]'' magazine.  ''Amerasia'' had published classified materials verbatim from the United States wartime intelligence service, the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS). FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover believed he had an "airtight case," and Justice Department officials were ready to prosecute.  [[Thomas Corcoran]] (Tommy the Cork), a former [[Franklin Roosevelt]] personal adviser who lived in the [[White House]] at the President's side and afterward became a prominent Washington lawyer and fixer, worked with the Truman administration to cover up the case.  Soviet agent [[Duncan Lee]], counsel to OSS head General William Donovan, was the highest ranking [[KGB]] operative among nearly two dozen known Soviet agents who penetrated the OSS, worked in Corcoran's Washington law firm. <ref>FBI Silvermaster file [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster092.pdf Vol. 92, pgs. 20 - 21] pdf, January 26, 1947. Biographical details and extended wrap-up on Duncan C. Lee, formerly of OSS, [[Elizabeth Bentley]]'s allegations concerning him, his contacts with [[Donald Wheeler]] and [[Mary Price]], and his employment by the law firm of President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] adviser [[Thomas Corcoran]]. </ref>

On June 6 1945, 6 persons, including three U.S. government officials, were arrested on conspiracy and espionage charges related to possession of roughly 1000 stolen classified Government documents in the offices of ''[[Amerasia]]'' magazine.  ''Amerasia'' had published classified materials verbatim from the United States wartime intelligence service, the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS). FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover believed he had an "airtight case," and Justice Department officials were ready to prosecute.  [[Thomas Corcoran]] (Tommy the Cork), a former [[Franklin Roosevelt]] personal adviser who lived in the [[White House]] at the President's side and afterward became a prominent Washington lawyer and fixer, worked with the Truman administration to cover up the case.  Soviet agent [[Duncan Lee]], counsel to OSS head General William Donovan, was the highest ranking [[KGB]] operative among nearly two dozen known Soviet agents who penetrated the OSS, worked in Corcoran's Washington law firm. <ref>FBI Silvermaster file [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster092.pdf Vol. 92, pgs. 20 - 21] pdf, January 26, 1947. Biographical details and extended wrap-up on Duncan C. Lee, formerly of OSS, [[Elizabeth Bentley]]'s allegations concerning him, his contacts with [[Donald Wheeler]] and [[Mary Price]], and his employment by the law firm of President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] adviser [[Thomas Corcoran]]. </ref>

A transmission from [[Soviet Military Intelligence]] (GRU) agents in New York to Moscow read,

A transmission from [[Soviet Military Intelligence]] (GRU) agents in New York<ref>Venona 927-928 GRU New York to Moscow, June 16, 1943,

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[[Joseph Bernstein]] has established friendly relations with [[T.A. Bisson]] . . who has recently left [[BEW]]; he is now working in the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR) and in the editorial offices of Bernsteins’ periodical [[Amerasia]]. . . Bisson passed to Bernstein . . . copies of four documents: <br>

[[Joseph Bernstein]] has established friendly relations with [[T.A. Bisson]] . . who has recently left [[BEW]]; he is now working in the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR) and in the editorial offices of Bernsteins’ periodical [[Amerasia]]. . . Bisson passed to Bernstein . . . copies of four documents: <br>

(b) a report by the Chinese embassy in Washington to its government in China. . . . <br>

(b) a report by the Chinese embassy in Washington to its government in China. . . . <br>

(c) a brief BEW report of April 1943 on a general evaluation of the forces of the sides on the Soviet-German front. . . . <br>

(c) a brief BEW report of April 1943 on a general evaluation of the forces of the sides on the Soviet-German front. . . . <br>

(d) a report by the American consul in Vladivostok. . ."<ref>Venona 927-928 GRU New York to Moscow, June 16, 1943,

(d) a report by the American consul in Vladivostok. . ."

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