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When the Nazi-Soviet alliance [http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/suvorov.html broke down], the FBI shifted from tracking Communists to focus resources on hunting for [http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/nazi/nazi.htm Nazi and fascist agents]. In 1941, the U.S. expanded its Lend-Lease program to the UK to [http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/geust/aircraft_deliveries.htm include the Soviet Union]. In 1943, Stalin reciprocated by officially dissolving the [[Comintern]],<ref>[[#refKHA98|Klehr, Haynes, Anderson 1998]]: 12</ref> gradually transferring its assets and networks to direct [[NKVD]] control.<ref>[[PrefaceBW96|Preface, NSA/CIA 1996]]</ref>
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When the Nazi-Soviet alliance [http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/suvorov.html broke down], the FBI shifted from tracking Communists to focus resources on hunting for [http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/nazi/nazi.htm Nazi and fascist agents]. In 1941, the U.S. expanded its Lend-Lease program to the UK to [http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/geust/aircraft_deliveries.htm include the Soviet Union]. In 1943, Stalin reciprocated by officially dissolving the [[Comintern]],<ref>[[#refKHA98|Klehr, Haynes, Anderson 1998]]: 12</ref> gradually transferring its assets and networks to direct [[NKVD]] control.<ref>[[#refPrefaceBW96|Preface, NSA/CIA 1996]]</ref>
    
[[Image: Soviet-poster.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|World War II U.S. propaganda poster proclaims Soviet Army "fights for FREEDOM." ''Courtesy [http://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/USSoviet Office of the Historian], U.S. Department of State'']]In March 1943, U.S. Army Air Corps Major George R. Jordan opened several [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,854011,00.html black suitcases] leaving the U.S. bound for the [[Soviet Union]]. He found "hundreds of maps, patent documents, blueprints of industrial plants, railroad tables, and top-secret [[U.S. government]] documents," including "five or six [[State Department]] folders, bound with stout rubber bands. Clipped to each was a tab." From one tab, said Jordan, he copied the legend: “From Hiss.” According to Jordan, "I had never heard of Alger Hiss, and made the entry because the folder bearing his name happened to be second in the pile. It contained hundreds of Photostats of what seemed to be military reports."<ref>George Racey Jordan with Richard L. Stokes, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Iu9HAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 From Major Jordan's Diaries]'' (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952), p. 42</ref>
 
[[Image: Soviet-poster.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|World War II U.S. propaganda poster proclaims Soviet Army "fights for FREEDOM." ''Courtesy [http://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/USSoviet Office of the Historian], U.S. Department of State'']]In March 1943, U.S. Army Air Corps Major George R. Jordan opened several [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,854011,00.html black suitcases] leaving the U.S. bound for the [[Soviet Union]]. He found "hundreds of maps, patent documents, blueprints of industrial plants, railroad tables, and top-secret [[U.S. government]] documents," including "five or six [[State Department]] folders, bound with stout rubber bands. Clipped to each was a tab." From one tab, said Jordan, he copied the legend: “From Hiss.” According to Jordan, "I had never heard of Alger Hiss, and made the entry because the folder bearing his name happened to be second in the pile. It contained hundreds of Photostats of what seemed to be military reports."<ref>George Racey Jordan with Richard L. Stokes, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Iu9HAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 From Major Jordan's Diaries]'' (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952), p. 42</ref>
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