In 1939, defecting [[GRU]] courier [[Whittaker Chambers]] identified Currie to Assistant Secretary of State (in charge of security) Adolf Berle as a "[[fellow traveller|fellow traveler]]" who "helped various Communists" in the underground but "never went the whole way"<ref>[http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page100.html Adolf Berle’s Notes on his Meeting with Whittaker Chambers] (John Earl Haynes, Historical Writings)</ref> of becoming a Communist Party member.<ref>John Earl Haynes, [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Vassiliev%20Notebooks%20Concordance2.pdf Vassiliev Notebooks Concordance: Cover Names, Real Names, Abbreviations, Acronyms, Organizational Titles, Tradecraft Terminology], 2008, p. 39</ref>
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 the 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> who tipped the Kremlin off in 1944 that the U.S. was on the verge of breaking the Soviet code,</ref>Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhinhe would later confess that he "might have heard about such codebreaking developments, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=9TWUAQ7Xof8C The Sword " and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History "would have had no problem telling Silverman that type of the KGB]'' (New York: Basic Books, 2000), ISBN 0-465-00310-9, pinformation. 130; "<ref>Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, eds.Cecil Phillips, ''[httpshttp://www.ciagwu.govedu/library~nsarchiv/center-for-the-study-of-intelligenceNSAEBB/csi-publicationsNSAEBB278/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/venona01.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> as Currie confessed he had done.)<ref>Robert Louis Benson and Cecil Phillips, ''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>
[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].