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A June 1945 [[Venona project]] decryption of the Washington, D.C. [[KGB]] Office to Moscow's Eighth Department, the political intelligence wing, relayed information on matters regarding [[President Truman]] and Attorney General Francis Biddle.  KGB agent [[Charles Kramer]], who served on the staff of several U.S. Senate Subcommittees, and Barrows are the sources of the information.  Mary Van Kleek who headed the Russell Sage Foundation and also served on the Board of the National Council, visited Washington visited Washington weekly to meet with Barrows and [[Greg Silvermaster|Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]].

A June 1945 [[Venona project]] decryption of the Washington, D.C. [[KGB]] Office to Moscow's Eighth Department, the political intelligence wing, relayed information on matters regarding [[President Truman]] and Attorney General Francis Biddle.  KGB agent [[Charles Kramer]], who served on the staff of several U.S. Senate Subcommittees, and Barrows are the sources of the information.  Mary Van Kleek who headed the Russell Sage Foundation and also served on the Board of the National Council, visited Washington visited Washington weekly to meet with Barrows and [[Greg Silvermaster|Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]].

The organization Barrows served as Director was found in 1953 to be a [[Communist front]] organization by the [[Subversive Activities Control Board]] (SACB). In its Findings of Fact, the SACB said the National Council of American-Soviet Firendship,  

The organization Barrows served as Director was found in 1953 to be a [[Communist front]] organization by the [[Subversive Activities Control Board]] (SACB). In its Findings of Fact, the SACB said the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship,  

:"advances positions...markedly pro-Soviet and...anti-United States Government...is a Communist-action organization which has as its primary purpose to advance the objectives of the world Communist movement under the [[hegemony]] of the Soviet Union; it has the policy to support and defend the Soviet Union under any and all circumstances...We conclude that the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., is substantianlly directed, dominated, and controlled by the Communist Party of the United States...and is primarily operated for the purpose of giving aid and support to...the Soviet Union, a Communinst foreign government."

:"advances positions...markedly pro-Soviet and...anti-United States Government...is a Communist-action organization which has as its primary purpose to advance the objectives of the world Communist movement under the [[hegemony]] of the Soviet Union; it has the policy to support and defend the Soviet Union under any and all circumstances...We conclude that the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., is substantially directed, dominated, and controlled by the Communist Party of the United States...and is primarily operated for the purpose of giving aid and support to...the Soviet Union, a Communist foreign government."

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