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Service also met with [[FDR]]'s personal emissary to [[Soviet]] dictator [[Josef Stalin]], [[Harry Hopkins]], whom Akhmerov called "the most important of all Soviet war-time agents in the United States," according to Oleg Gordievsky, the highest-ranking [[KGB]] agent ever to defect.<ref>Peter B. Niblo, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=kksbT33Cb6wC Influence: The Soviet Task Leading to Pearl Harbor, the Iron Curtain, and the Cold War]'' (Oakland, Ore.: Elderberry Press, 2002) ISBN 1930859147, p. 65. In 2008, Gordievsky would become [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7333382.stm partially paralyzed], as a result, he told Scotland Yard, of what he suspected was an assassination attempt.</ref> The late U.S. Air Force historian Eduard Mark identified [[Harry Hopkins|Hopkins]] as [[Venona project|Venona]]'s Soviet agent "19."<ref>Eduard Mark, “Venona’s Source 19 and the ‘Trident’ Conference of 1943: Diplomacy or Espionage,” ''Intelligence and National Security'', Summer 1998</ref>

Service also met with [[FDR]]'s personal emissary to [[Soviet]] dictator [[Josef Stalin]], [[Harry Hopkins]], whom Akhmerov called "the most important of all Soviet war-time agents in the United States," according to Oleg Gordievsky, the highest-ranking [[KGB]] agent ever to defect.<ref>Peter B. Niblo, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=kksbT33Cb6wC Influence: The Soviet Task Leading to Pearl Harbor, the Iron Curtain, and the Cold War]'' (Oakland, Ore.: Elderberry Press, 2002) ISBN 1930859147, p. 65. In 2008, Gordievsky would become [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7333382.stm partially paralyzed], as a result, he told Scotland Yard, of what he suspected was an assassination attempt.</ref> The late U.S. Air Force historian Eduard Mark identified [[Harry Hopkins|Hopkins]] as [[Venona project|Venona]]'s Soviet agent "19."<ref>Eduard Mark, “Venona’s Source 19 and the ‘Trident’ Conference of 1943: Diplomacy or Espionage,” ''Intelligence and National Security'', Summer 1998</ref>

In addition, Service met with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury [[Harry Dexter White]], the "most important member of the [[Silvermaster group|Silvermaster network]] and the most highly placed asset the Soviets possessed in the American government."<ref>John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America] (Yale University Press, 2009) ISBN 0300123906, p. 258</ref> Finally, Service also visited the Washington headquarters of the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]], which would be identified by the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] as "a vehicle used by the Communists to orientate American far eastern policies toward Communist objectives."<ref>Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, [http://ia360610.us.archive.org/0/items/instituteofpacif1952unit/instituteofpacif1952unit_bw.pdf Institute of Pacific Relations] (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1952), p. 225</ref>

In addition, Service met with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury [[Harry Dexter White]], the "most important member of the [[Silvermaster group|Silvermaster network]] and the most highly placed asset the Soviets possessed in the American government."<ref>John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=qCAVQ_cdomcC Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America]'' (Yale University Press, 2009) ISBN 0300123906, p. 258</ref> Finally, Service also visited the Washington headquarters of the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]], which would be identified by the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] as "a vehicle used by the Communists to orientate American far eastern policies toward Communist objectives."<ref>Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, [http://ia360610.us.archive.org/0/items/instituteofpacif1952unit/instituteofpacif1952unit_bw.pdf Institute of Pacific Relations] (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1952), p. 225</ref>

==Amerasia scandal==

==Amerasia scandal==