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==Operation Snow==

==Operation Snow==

In May of 1941 Pavlov met for lunch with [[Harry Dexter White]], longterm [[Comintern]] and [[KGB]] agent who infiltrated the v[[New Deal]]v administration of President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] and rose to the position of Undersecretary of the Treasury. White had been carefully selected to approach by [[Iskhak Akhmerov]], who had served in the United States running the [[Silvermaster group]].  The purpose of "Operation Snow" was to present a series of policy initiatives which involved Soviet efforts to worsen U.S. Japanese relations. The Soviets' intent was for White to inject them into the Roosevelt administration's [[foreign policy]] discussions on Japan.  The objective was to encourage Japan's war party to view the United States, not Russia, as its main enemy. Pavlov handed White an outline of themes for White to promote among key U.S. policymakers, among them was a demand, to be wrapped in tough rhetoric, that Japan recall its armed forces from China. <ref>Vitali Pavlov, "Operation Snow," News of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence, Moscow, August 1995, pgs. 5-6.</ref><ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200101/ai_n8935656 Soviet penetration of the U.S. gets fresh look], Allan H Ryskind, ''Human Events'', Jan 29, 2001. Review of Romerstein and Breindel, ''The Venona Secrets''.</ref>   

In May of 1941 Pavlov met for lunch with [[Harry Dexter White]], longterm [[Comintern]] and [[KGB]] agent who infiltrated the v[[New Deal]]v administration of President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] and rose to the position of Undersecretary of the Treasury. White had been carefully selected to approach by [[Iskhak Akhmerov]], who had served in the United States running the [[Silvermaster group]].  The purpose of "Operation Snow" was to present a series of policy initiatives which involved Soviet efforts to worsen U.S. Japanese relations. The Soviets' intent was for White to inject them into the Roosevelt administration's [[foreign policy]] discussions on Japan.  The objective was to encourage Japan's war party to view the United States, not Russia, as its main enemy. Pavlov handed White an outline of themes for White to promote among key U.S. policymakers, among them was a demand, to be wrapped in tough rhetoric, that Japan recall its armed forces from China. <ref>Vitali Pavlov, "Operation Snow," News of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence, Moscow, August 1995, pgs. 5-6.</ref><ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200101/ai_n8935656 Soviet penetration of the U.S. gets fresh look], Allan H Ryskind, ''Human Events'', Jan 29, 2001. Review of Romerstein and Breindel, ''The Venona Secrets''.</ref>   

White wrote proposals for economic sanctions against Japan which President Roosevelt implemented on July 26, 1941. All Japanese financial assets in the U.S. were frozen, virtually ending trade between the two countries. Japan found itself in a position where its oil reserves would soon be exhausted asw well as other necessary resources.  The Japanese Cabinet sought desperately to reach an agreement in Washington. <ref>[http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119975.pdf ''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time''], Carroll Quigley, Collier-Macmillan, 1966, pg. 739. ISBN 0-945001-10-X</ref> Japan abandoned all plans against the Soviet Union and looked to the south instead for  resources it needed. Due to Soviet influence, the United States set up a foreign policy that placed the [[Kremlin]]'s interests ahead of the White House's.<ref> Schecter and Schecter, Sacred Secrets, pp. 31, 33.</ref>

White wrote proposals for economic sanctions against Japan which President Roosevelt implemented on July 26, 1941. All Japanese financial assets in the U.S. were frozen, virtually ending trade between the two countries. Japan found itself in a position where its oil reserves would soon be exhausted asw well as other necessary resources.  The Japanese Cabinet sought desperately to reach an agreement in Washington. <ref>[http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119975.pdf ''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time''], Carroll Quigley, Collier-Macmillan, 1966, pg. 739. ISBN 0-945001-10-X</ref> Japan abandoned all plans against the Soviet Union and looked to the south instead for  resources it needed. Due to Soviet influence, the United States set up a foreign policy that placed the [[Kremlin]]'s interests ahead of the White House's.<ref> Schecter and Schecter, Sacred Secrets, pp. 31, 33.</ref>

==Cold War career==

==Cold War career==