When Elizabeth Bentley began naming names from her Communist past, no one was more indignant than William Henry Taylor, onetime U.S. Treasury Department official who had found a comfortable postwar roost with the International Monetary Fund (as an adviser on Middle Eastern affairs). Upon learning that Witness Bentley had cited him as a member of the Nathan Gregory Silvermaster-Harry Dexter White spy ring in the Treasury Department, Taylor angrily fired off letters and an affidavit denying that he was or ever had been a Communist. Last week, after hearings on Taylor's fitness...
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