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After the Nazi-Soviet alliance broke down with the German attack, the FBI shifted resources from tracking Communists to focus on hunting for Nazi and fascist agents. In 1941, the U.S. extended its Lend-Lease program from the UK [http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/geust/aircraft_deliveries.htm include to the Soviet Union]. In 1943, Stalin reciprocated by officially dissolving the [[Comintern]]&mdash;although he secretly transferred its supervision of foreign Communist parties to the newly-created "International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union."<ref>Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Kirill Mikhaĭlovich Anderson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nHKvFVnBLGYC The Soviet World of American Communism]'' (Yale University Press, 1998) ISBN 0300071507, p. 12</ref>

After the Nazi-Soviet alliance broke down with the German attack, the FBI shifted resources from tracking Communists to focus on hunting for Nazi and fascist agents. In 1941, the U.S. extended its Lend-Lease program from the UK [http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/geust/aircraft_deliveries.htm include to the Soviet Union]. In 1943, Stalin reciprocated by officially dissolving the [[Comintern]]&mdash;although he secretly transferred its supervision of foreign Communist parties to the newly-created "International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union."<ref>Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Kirill Mikhaĭlovich Anderson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nHKvFVnBLGYC The Soviet World of American Communism]'' (Yale University Press, 1998) ISBN 0300071507, p. 12</ref>

In March 1943, U.S. Army Air Force Major George R. Jordan [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,854011,00.html opened several diplomatic cases] leaving the U.S. bound for the [[Soviet Union]]. He found "hundreds of maps, patent documents, blueprints of industrial plants, railroad tables, and [http://www.missoulian.com/specials/salute/Salute3-espionage.html top-secret] [[U.S. government]] documents," including "five or six [[State Department]] folders, bound with stout rubber bands. Clipped to each was a tab." From one tab, said Jordan, he copied the legend: “From Hiss.” According to Jordan, "I had never heard of Alger Hiss, and made the entry because the folder bearing his name happened to be second in the pile. It contained hundreds of Photostats of what seemed to be military reports."<ref>George Racey Jordan with Richard L. Stokes, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Iu9HAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 From Major Jordan's Diaries]'' (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952), p. 42</ref>

In March 1943, U.S. Army Air Corps Major George R. Jordan opened several [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,854011,00.html black suitcases] leaving the U.S. bound for the [[Soviet Union]]. He found "hundreds of maps, patent documents, blueprints of industrial plants, railroad tables, and [http://www.missoulian.com/specials/salute/Salute3-espionage.html top-secret] [[U.S. government]] documents," including "five or six [[State Department]] folders, bound with stout rubber bands. Clipped to each was a tab." From one tab, said Jordan, he copied the legend: “From Hiss.” According to Jordan, "I had never heard of Alger Hiss, and made the entry because the folder bearing his name happened to be second in the pile. It contained hundreds of Photostats of what seemed to be military reports."<ref>George Racey Jordan with Richard L. Stokes, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Iu9HAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 From Major Jordan's Diaries]'' (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952), p. 42</ref>

[[Image: Soviet-poster.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|World War II U.S. propaganda poster proclaims Soviet Army "fights for FREEDOM." ''Courtesy [http://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/USSoviet Office of the Historian], U.S. Department of State'']]Jordan’s unlikely story would be corroborated by ex-NKVD agent<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. 191</ref> Anna Louise Strong ([http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Vassiliev_Notebooks_Concordance1.pdf code-named "Map"]), who boasted that&mdash;with the help of American millionaire<ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=M8p00bTFvRkC Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America]'' (Yale University Press, 1999) ISBN 0300077718, p. 232</ref> Louise Bransten, a secret member of the Communist Party<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. 88</ref> and Soviet agent<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors]'' (Regnery Publishing, 2001) ISBN 0895262258, p. 263</ref> code-named ''Lyre''<ref>Gregg Herken, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=WCowSW6ZrywC Brotherhood of the Bomb]'' (Macmillan, 2002) ISBN , p. 129 (cf. [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/18mar_pash.pdf 132 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 18 March 1944; [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/7jun_corday.pdf 257 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 7 June 1944; [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/22jun_greeting_charlotte_corday.pdf 270 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 22 June 1944</ref> (and mistress<ref>Herbert Romerstein, and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors]'' (Regnery Publishing, 2001) ISBN , p. 257</ref>  of [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-diplo&month=0208&week=d&msg=2UO5GGvif1xPsNJ1mNou7A&user=&pw= NKVD San Francisco Station Chief] Gregory Kheifitz),  and other “friends of the American Russian Institute” (a [[Attorney General's list|Communist-front]])&mdash;she passed at least one shipment of material (sealed “under the supervision of the Russian consulate,” hence protected by diplomatic immunity from FBI searches) to Moscow via Lend-Lease from Gore Field, Montana<ref>Tracy Strong and Helene Keyssar, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=sapZAAAAMAAJ Right in Her Soul: The Life of Anna Louise Strong]'' (Random House, 1983), ISBN 0394516494, pp. 206-208</ref>&mdash;the same base where Maj. Jordan was stationed as a Lend-Lease expediter.<ref>Katherine A. S. Sibley, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=HNd4AAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Red Spies in America]'' (Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2007) ISBN 0700615555, p. 94</ref>

[[Image: Soviet-poster.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|World War II U.S. propaganda poster proclaims Soviet Army "fights for FREEDOM." ''Courtesy [http://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/USSoviet Office of the Historian], U.S. Department of State'']]Jordan’s unlikely story would be corroborated by ex-NKVD agent<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. 191</ref> Anna Louise Strong ([http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Vassiliev_Notebooks_Concordance1.pdf code-named "Map"]), who boasted that&mdash;with the help of American millionaire<ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=M8p00bTFvRkC Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America]'' (Yale University Press, 1999) ISBN 0300077718, p. 232</ref> Louise Bransten, a secret member of the Communist Party<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. 88</ref> and Soviet agent<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors]'' (Regnery Publishing, 2001) ISBN 0895262258, p. 263</ref> code-named ''Lyre''<ref>Gregg Herken, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=WCowSW6ZrywC Brotherhood of the Bomb]'' (Macmillan, 2002) ISBN , p. 129 (cf. [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/18mar_pash.pdf 132 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 18 March 1944; [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/7jun_corday.pdf 257 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 7 June 1944; [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/22jun_greeting_charlotte_corday.pdf 270 KGB San Francisco to Moscow], 22 June 1944</ref> (and mistress<ref>Herbert Romerstein, and Eric Breindel, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=mVpWH51F7toC The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors]'' (Regnery Publishing, 2001) ISBN , p. 257</ref>  of [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-diplo&month=0208&week=d&msg=2UO5GGvif1xPsNJ1mNou7A&user=&pw= NKVD San Francisco Station Chief] Gregory Kheifitz),  and other “friends of the American Russian Institute” (a [[Attorney General's list|Communist-front]])&mdash;she passed at least one shipment of material in [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brotherhoodofthebomb.com%2Fbhbmedia%2Fnotes_chap6.doc&ei=GjZfSqfFCcH7tgfb15jgAw&rct=j&q=notes+chapter+6+%22black+suitcases%22&usg=AFQjCNHIVVq-2CkXrloDTagYMB4uLzQGhw black suitcases] (sealed “under the supervision of the Russian consulate,” hence protected by diplomatic immunity from FBI searches) to Moscow via Lend-Lease from Gore Field, Montana<ref>Tracy Strong and Helene Keyssar, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=sapZAAAAMAAJ Right in Her Soul: The Life of Anna Louise Strong]'' (Random House, 1983), ISBN 0394516494, pp. 206-208</ref>&mdash;the same base where Maj. Jordan was stationed as a Lend-Lease expediter.<ref>Katherine A. S. Sibley, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=HNd4AAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Red Spies in America]'' (Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2007) ISBN 0700615555, p. 94</ref>

Jordan was U.S. liaison to the Soviet Purchasing Commission, an agency of the Soviet Union; in April 1944, Victor Kravchenko, economic attaché of that bureau,<ref>Richard Rhodes, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=f113iCcn87wC Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb]'' (Simon and Schuster, 1996) ISBN 0684824140, p. 101</ref> defected to the U.S. He released a statement warning:

Jordan was U.S. liaison to the Soviet Purchasing Commission, an agency of the Soviet Union; his story would be further corroborated in April 1944, when Victor Kravchenko, economic attaché of that bureau, defected to the U.S. He described preparing a shipment of "black suitcases" carrying industrial espionage to the Soviet Union via Lend-Lease,<ref>Richard Rhodes, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=f113iCcn87wC Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb]'' (Simon and Schuster, 1996) ISBN 0684824140, p. 101</ref> and released a statement warning:

{{cquote|I cannot keep silent any longer.... I can no longer support double-faced political maneuvers... toward collaboration with the [[United States]] and [[Britain]] while pursuing aims incompatible with such collaboration.

{{cquote|I cannot keep silent any longer.... I can no longer support double-faced political maneuvers... toward collaboration with the [[United States]] and [[Britain]] while pursuing aims incompatible with such collaboration.

The [[Soviet]] Government has dissolved the [[Communist International]] but only in form.... The new democratic terminology is only a maneuver... to promote the inclusion of [[Communist]]s, obedient to the [[Kremlin]], in the future Governments... of Italy, Austria and [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,885439,00.html other countries].<ref>In 1966, Kravchenko would be found [http://www.americansterling.com/ASPL_Film_Defector.asp shot] to death in his Manhattan apartment. Although his [[death]] would be ruled a [[suicide]], his son Andrew maintains that he was executed by a SMERSH assassination squad.</ref>}}

The [[Soviet]] Government has dissolved the [[Communist International]] but only in form.... The new democratic terminology is only a maneuver... to promote the inclusion of [[Communist]]s, obedient to the [[Kremlin]], in the future Governments... of Italy, Austria and [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,885439,00.html other countries].<ref>In 1966, Kravchenko would be found [http://www.americansterling.com/ASPL_Film_Defector.asp shot] to death in his Manhattan apartment. Although his [[death]] would be ruled a [[suicide]], his son Andrew maintains that he was executed by a SMERSH assassination squad.</ref>}}