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Jordan’s unlikely story would be corroborated by ex-NKVD agent<ref>[[#refSpies09|Haynes, Klehr, Vassiliev 2009]]: 191</ref> Anna Louise Strong (code-named "Map"),<ref>[[#refHaynes08|Haynes 2008]]: 21</ref> who boasted that&mdash;with the help of American millionaire<ref>[[#refHK99|Haynes, Klehr 1999]]: 232</ref> Louise Bransten, a secret member of the Communist Party<ref>[[#refSpies09|Haynes, Klehr, Vassiliev 2009]]: 88</ref> and Soviet agent<ref>[[#refRomerstein01|Romerstein, Breindel 2001]]: 263</ref> code-named ''Lyre''<ref>Gregg Herken, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=WCowSW6ZrywC Brotherhood of the Bomb]'' (Macmillan, 2002) ISBN 0805065881, 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>[[#refRomerstein01|Romerstein, Breindel 2001]]: 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’s unlikely story would be corroborated by ex-NKVD agent<ref>[[#refSpies09|Haynes, Klehr, Vassiliev 2009]]: 191</ref> Anna Louise Strong (code-named "Map"),<ref>[[#refHaynes08|Haynes 2008]]: 21</ref> who boasted that&mdash;with the help of American millionaire<ref>[[#refHK99|Haynes, Klehr 1999]]: 232</ref> Louise Bransten, a secret member of the Communist Party<ref>[[#refSpies09|Haynes, Klehr, Vassiliev 2009]]: 88</ref> and Soviet agent<ref>[[#refRomerstein01|Romerstein, Breindel 2001]]: 263</ref> code-named ''Lyre''<ref>Gregg Herken, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=WCowSW6ZrywC Brotherhood of the Bomb]'' (Macmillan, 2002) ISBN 0805065881, 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>[[#refRomerstein01|Romerstein, Breindel 2001]]: 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; 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:

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.<ref>[[Harry Hopkins and [[John Paton Davies]] recommended to Roosevelt that Kravchenko be forcibly returned to the Soviet Union. Dennis J. Dunn, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Cm6IH1a4oksC Caught Between Roosevelt & Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow]'' (University Press of Kentucky, 1998) ISBN 0813120233, p. 236</ref> 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 [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2960709.stm 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 [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2960709.stm SMERSH] assassination squad.</ref>}}