Anyone read the "Hitler´s secret war"?
I mean most is rather "known" info but one part is rather upsetting ( at least to me...): ex-journalist David Whittaker Chambers gave a list of communist contacts inside Roosevelt´s adminstrationin in mid-1939 to US Assistant Secretary of the State Adolf Berle but the memo was shelved because that would have meant Roosevelt would not have been selected.. (??) Anyone have more on this?
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/proj...testimony.html
Mr. CHAMBERS. Almost exactly 9 years ago-that is, 2 days after Hitler and Stalin signed their pact-I went to Washington and reported to the authorities what I knew about the infiltration of the United States Government by Communists.
For a number of years I had myself served in the under-ground, chiefly in .Washington, D. C. The heart of my report to the United States Government consisted of a description of the apparatus to which I was attached. It was an underground organization of the United States Communist Party developed, to the best of my knowledge, by Harold Ware, one of the sons of the Communist leader known as "Mother Bloor." I knew it at its top level, a group of seven or so men, from among whom in later years certain members of Miss Bentley's organization were apparently recruited. The head of the underground group at the time I knew it was Nathan Witt, an attorney for the National Labor Relations Board. Later, .Tohn Abt became the
leader. Lee Pressman was also a member of this group, as was Alger Hiss, who, as a member of the State Department, later organized the conferences at Dumbarton Oaks, San Francisco, and the United States side of the Yalta Conference.
The purpose of this group at that time was not primarily espionage. Its original purpose was the Communist infiltration of the American Government. But espionage was certainly one of its eventual objectives.
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Chambers had accused Hiss of being a Communist before his 1948 HUAC appearance. Following the signing of the non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the USSR in August of 1939--a disillusioning event for American Communists, who believed the Soviet Union would remain a sworn enemy of Hitler's regime--Chambers approached Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle and told him about "fellow travelers" in the government, including Hiss. Chambers recounted his Communist activities to the FBI in several interviews during the early 1940s, but little happened.
http://www.thehistorynet.com/ah/blalgerhiss/
