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In April, 1944, an anonymous letter was received by the FBI, the writer was subsequently identified as [[Katherine Perlo]], wife of [[Victor Perlo]]. This letter, directed to the White House, listed the names of approximately twenty-five persons whom the writer designated as members of the Communist group in Washington or contacts thereof. Among those names listed was that of [[George Silverman]] with the following parenthetical notation along side this name: "Railroad Retirement Brd. — works thru close friends who are indebted to him — Lauchlin Currie - [[Harry White]], etc. –"  
 
In April, 1944, an anonymous letter was received by the FBI, the writer was subsequently identified as [[Katherine Perlo]], wife of [[Victor Perlo]]. This letter, directed to the White House, listed the names of approximately twenty-five persons whom the writer designated as members of the Communist group in Washington or contacts thereof. Among those names listed was that of [[George Silverman]] with the following parenthetical notation along side this name: "Railroad Retirement Brd. — works thru close friends who are indebted to him — Lauchlin Currie - [[Harry White]], etc. –"  
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In late 1945, the FBI opened an investigation of [[Anatoly Gorsky]], a KGB officer operating out of the Soviet embassy in Washington under the guise of being a Soviet diplomat. A report on the investigation in February 1946 cited several meetings between Gorsky and Currie. Currie admitted to the FBI in 1947 he had met at least four times with Gorsky in 1945.  Years later it was discovered that Currie also met with [[Vasily Zarubin]] in August 1943 which coincides with mysterious [[Vasily_Zarubin#Markov|"Mr. Guver" letter]] in which a Soviet KGB officer stated that Zarubin “has some high level agent in the office of the White House.” <ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), p. 146-147.</ref>   
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In late 1945, the FBI opened an investigation of [[Anatoly Gorsky]], a KGB officer operating out of the Soviet embassy in Washington under the guise of being a Soviet diplomat. A report on the investigation in February 1946 cited several meetings between Gorsky and Currie. Currie admitted to the FBI in 1947 he had met at least four times with Gorsky in 1945. <ref>Report on Currie interview, 31 July 1947, FBI Silvermaster file, serial 2794.</ref> Years later it was discovered that Currie also met with [[Vasily Zarubin]] in August 1943 which coincides with mysterious [[Vasily_Zarubin#Markov|"Mr. Guver" letter]] in which a Soviet KGB officer stated that Zarubin “has some high level agent in the office of the White House.” <ref>John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), p. 146-147.</ref>   
    
Lauchlin Currie was one of the Federal employees listed as an affiliate of subversive organizations by the [[Dies Committee]] in a memorandum submitted to the Attorney General. It was stated he was a member of the Washington Committee to Aid China.  
 
Lauchlin Currie was one of the Federal employees listed as an affiliate of subversive organizations by the [[Dies Committee]] in a memorandum submitted to the Attorney General. It was stated he was a member of the Washington Committee to Aid China.  
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