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'''Alice Prentice Barrows''' was a secretary of Dr. William A. Wirt, who headed the U.S. [[Department of Education|Office of Education]] in the early days of the [[New Deal]] of President [[Franklin Roosevelt]]. Barrows had been a member of the [[Communist Party of the United States]] since 1919, the same year she began working for the Office of Education. During [[World War II]] Barrows was the Executive Secretary of the the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship.
In 1934, a Congressional Investigation was held to examine statements Dr. Wirt made regarding a meeting in Alice Barrows home a year earlier. The "Wirt Incident" was widely reported and provoked much controversy. Barrows and several other government employees revealed to Wirt they were members of the Communist party. Wirt testified,
:"I was told they believe that by thwarting our then evident economic recovery, they would be able to prolong the country’s destitution until they had demonstrated to the American people that the Government must operate business and commerce. By propaganda, they would destroy institutions making long term capital loans—and then push Uncle Sam into making these loans. Once Uncle Sam becomes our financier, he must also follow his money with control and management.
Wirt further testified they told him,
:"We believe we have Roosevelt in the middle of a swift stream, and that the current is so strong, that he cannot turn back or escape from it. We believe that we can keep Mr. Roosevelt there until we are ready to supplant him with a [[Stalin]]. We all think that Mr. Roosevelt is only the [[Kerensky]] of this [[World Revolution|revolution]]. We are on the inside. We can control the avenues of influence. We can make the President believe that he is making decisions for himself." <ref>Hearings, House Select Committee To Investigate Certain Statements of Dr. William Wirt, 73rd Congress, 2nd Session, April 10 and 17, 1934. </ref>
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,
:"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."
==References==
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==Sources==
*Hearings, Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments, [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]], June 23, 1953, pp. 823-840.
*United States. Subversive Activities Control Board. [http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=usfexec;cc=usfexec;q1=Barrows;rgn=full%20text;idno=81242.0001.001;didno=81242.0001.001;view=image;seq=511;page=root;size=s;endseq=3;frm=frameset Reports of the Subversive Activities Control Board.] Washington. United States Government Printing Office. 1966. Vol. 1, p. 501.
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)
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'''Alice Prentice Barrows''' was a secretary of Dr. William A. Wirt, who headed the U.S. [[Department of Education|Office of Education]] in the early days of the [[New Deal]] of President [[Franklin Roosevelt]]. Barrows had been a member of the [[Communist Party of the United States]] since 1919, the same year she began working for the Office of Education. During [[World War II]] Barrows was the Executive Secretary of the the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship.
In 1934, a Congressional Investigation was held to examine statements Dr. Wirt made regarding a meeting in Alice Barrows home a year earlier. The "Wirt Incident" was widely reported and provoked much controversy. Barrows and several other government employees revealed to Wirt they were members of the Communist party. Wirt testified,
:"I was told they believe that by thwarting our then evident economic recovery, they would be able to prolong the country’s destitution until they had demonstrated to the American people that the Government must operate business and commerce. By propaganda, they would destroy institutions making long term capital loans—and then push Uncle Sam into making these loans. Once Uncle Sam becomes our financier, he must also follow his money with control and management.
Wirt further testified they told him,
:"We believe we have Roosevelt in the middle of a swift stream, and that the current is so strong, that he cannot turn back or escape from it. We believe that we can keep Mr. Roosevelt there until we are ready to supplant him with a [[Stalin]]. We all think that Mr. Roosevelt is only the [[Kerensky]] of this [[World Revolution|revolution]]. We are on the inside. We can control the avenues of influence. We can make the President believe that he is making decisions for himself." <ref>Hearings, House Select Committee To Investigate Certain Statements of Dr. William Wirt, 73rd Congress, 2nd Session, April 10 and 17, 1934. </ref>
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,
:"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."
==References==
<references/>
==Sources==
*Hearings, Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments, [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]], June 23, 1953, pp. 823-840.
*United States. Subversive Activities Control Board. [http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=usfexec;cc=usfexec;q1=Barrows;rgn=full%20text;idno=81242.0001.001;didno=81242.0001.001;view=image;seq=511;page=root;size=s;endseq=3;frm=frameset Reports of the Subversive Activities Control Board.] Washington. United States Government Printing Office. 1966. Vol. 1, p. 501.
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)
[[Category:Biographies|Barrows, Alice]]
[[Category:History]]