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== Communist connections ==
 
== Communist connections ==
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[[Whittaker Chambers]], a defector from Soviet intelligence and [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] award recipient, informed the [[FBI]] that [[Comintern]] operative [[John Herrmann]] reported to him Niles was involved in an inappropriate relationship with another Soviet agent as early as 1934.<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''The Venona Secrets, Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors,'' (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997), p. 181. [https://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC&pg=PA181&dq=davis+niles%2Bromerstein%2Bhomosexual]</ref>
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In 1943, Congressman Fred Bradley accused Niles of having communist connections while involved with the Ford Hall Forum. [http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hstpaper/niles.htm]  More recent allegations of Communist connections to Niles have arisen:
 
In 1943, Congressman Fred Bradley accused Niles of having communist connections while involved with the Ford Hall Forum. [http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hstpaper/niles.htm]  More recent allegations of Communist connections to Niles have arisen:
 
:"An NKVD [[Venona]] document, a decrypted Soviet message, from New York to Moscow reported on a plan to send a husband and wife team of NKVD 'illegals' to Mexico.[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/01_Jun_1944_R3_m1_p1.gif] The message said, 'Through CAPITAN'S (Roosevelt’s) advisor David Niles –will take 3-4 days, will cost 500 dollars.... [A]round Niles there is a group of his friends who will arrange anything for a bribe. Through them TENOR ([[Michael W. Burd]]) obtains priorities and has already paid them as much as 6000 dollars. Whether NILES takes a bribe himself is not known for certain.' Burd was a Soviet agent and an officer of the [[Midland Export Corporation]] in New York City."
 
:"An NKVD [[Venona]] document, a decrypted Soviet message, from New York to Moscow reported on a plan to send a husband and wife team of NKVD 'illegals' to Mexico.[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/01_Jun_1944_R3_m1_p1.gif] The message said, 'Through CAPITAN'S (Roosevelt’s) advisor David Niles –will take 3-4 days, will cost 500 dollars.... [A]round Niles there is a group of his friends who will arrange anything for a bribe. Through them TENOR ([[Michael W. Burd]]) obtains priorities and has already paid them as much as 6000 dollars. Whether NILES takes a bribe himself is not known for certain.' Burd was a Soviet agent and an officer of the [[Midland Export Corporation]] in New York City."
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(Romerstein and Breindel, p. 180.)
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(Romerstein and Breindel, p.&nbsp;180.)
    
== References ==
 
== References ==
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== Sources ==
 
* Michael J. Cohen, ''Truman and Israel,'' (Berkeley, CA:  University of California Press, 1990).
 
* Michael J. Cohen, ''Truman and Israel,'' (Berkeley, CA:  University of California Press, 1990).
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*[http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster123.pdf FBI Silvermaster file] v.123
 
*[http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster123.pdf FBI Silvermaster file] v.123
 
*[http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster130.pdf FBI Silvermaster file] v.130
 
*[http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster130.pdf FBI Silvermaster file] v.130
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[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]
 
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]
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