In 1945, defecting [[NKVD]] courier [[Elizabeth Bentley]] told the [[FBI]] of her impression that Currie had "[http://www.education-research.org/PDFs/splitfiles/splitprocessed/Silvermaster006_Folder/Silvermaster006_page21.pdf something to do]" with [[USSR|Soviet]] agent [[Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]] getting a position in the Bureau of Economic Warfare, and said Currie was "[http://www.education-research.org/PDFs/splitfiles/splitprocessed/Silvermaster006_Folder/Silvermaster006_page44.pdf actively assisting in passing information]" [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-diplo&month=9906&week=b&msg=QzpZF2kgcbL8dEBvU%2BfyYw&user=&pw= to her network]—including informing Soviet agent [[George Silverman]] that the United States was "[http://www.education-research.org/PDFs/splitfiles/splitprocessed/Silvermaster006_Folder/Silvermaster006_page26.pdf on the verge of breaking the Soviet code]."<ref>[http://www.education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster006.pdf Vol. 6: Statement of Elizabeth Terrill Bentley], November 30, 1945, FBI file: [http://www.education-research.org/CSR/Holdings/Silvermaster/summaries.htm Silvermaster], pp. 20, 25, 43 (PDF pp. 21, 26, 44) Cf. Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=9TWUAQ7Xof8C The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB]'' (New York: Basic Books, 2000), ISBN 0-465-00310-9, p. 130; Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, eds., ''[https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/venona.htm Venona: Soviet Espionage and The American Response, 1939-1957]'' (NSA/CIA, 1996), pp. xiv, xxiv; FBI memo: Belmont to Boardman, February 1, 1956, p. 9 ([http://foia.fbi.gov/venona/venona.pdf FBI file: Venona], p. 71)</ref> Currie was indeed an NKVD agent<ref>Robert J. Hanyok, ''[http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/publications/wwii/eavesdropping.pdf Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945]'', 2005, pp. 118-119 (PDF pp. 123-124), n. 185; John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=dIsmm_ZLHcIC Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America]'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), ISBN 0300077718, p. 146</ref> in the White House;<ref>Frank J. Rafalko, ed., [http://www.ncix.gov/issues/CI_Reader/Vol3/Vol3Chap1.pdf Vol. 3, Ch. 1: Cold War Counterintelligence], ''[http://www.ncix.gov/issues/CI_Reader/ A Counterintelligence Reader: An American Revolution Into the New Millennium]'' (NCIX), pp. 30-31 (PDF pp. 29-30); Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors]'' (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2001), ISBN 0895262258, p. 167</ref> he would later confess that he "might have heard about such codebreaking developments," and "would have had no problem telling Silverman that type of information."<ref>Robert Louis Benson and Cecil Phillips, ''[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB278/01.PDF History of Venona]'' (Fort George Meade, Md.: National Security Agency, 1995), p. 37; 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. 263; Kathryn S. Olmsted, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=kwQQDXs__wwC Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley]'' (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2002), ISBN 0807827398, p. 49</ref>
A senior government official who worked closely with Currie during the war told the FBI that in 1944 Currie admitted to him that he had “tipped off” the Russians that the U.S. had “broken the Soviet diplomatic code.” A second person who worked closely with Currie during the war recalled that Currie told her that the U.S. had broken the Soviet code.<ref>Robert Louis Benson and Cecil Phillips, ''[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB278/01.PDF History of Venona]'' (Fort George Meade, Md.: National Security Agency, 1995), pp. 37-38</ref>
[http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-diplo&month=9906&week=d&msg=lPD3vPuXuLZMFEHUHuo%2B5w&user=&pw= Soviet archives] likewise identify Currie as a Soviet intelligence source. In 1948, [[Anatoly Gorsky]] identified Currie in the "[[Gorsky memo]]"as the Soviet agent code-named "PAZh/Page,"<ref>Alexander Vassiliev, ''Black Notebook'', [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Black%20Notebook%20Original.pdf Orig.] p. 40; [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Black%20Notebook%20Translated1.pdf Trans.] p. 78; cf. Ronald Bachman and Harold Leich (tr.), with John Earl Haynes, [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-hoac&month=0503&week=b&msg=ycrsVT7M1e2L9EECiLFskg&user=&pw= Alexander Vassiliev's Notes on Anatoly Gorsky's December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks], History of American Communism (H-HOAC) Discussion Network, March 14, 2005; David Lowenthal with Svetlana A. Chervonnaya, [http://hnn.us/articles/11581.html Gorsky Report: Dec 23, 1949], History News Network (George Mason University), May 2, 2005</ref> who is recorded in [[Venona]] giving [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/14oct_pazh_eleron_albert_robert.pdf information to Akhmerov] and "handing over [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1945/20mar_illegal_albert.pdf documents" to Silvermaster].