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Victor Perlo, formerly with the War Production Board and the Foreign Economic Administration.
Donald Wheeler, formerly with the Office of Strategic Services.
Major Duncan Lee, OSS.
Julius Joseph, OSS.
Helen Tenney, OSS.
Maurice Halperin, OSS.
Charles Kramer, formerly associated with Senator Kilgore.
Captain William Ludwig Ullmann, U.S. Army Air Corps.
Lieut. Colonel John H. Reynolds, of the U.S. Army, a former contact of Gaik Ovakimian, former head of the Soviet Secret Intelligence (NKVD) in New York, is also apparently involved in the Soviet espionage activities stemming from Washington, D.C.
In addition to the foregoing group in the Government, it appears at this time that Mary Price, formerly secretary to Walter Lippmann, the newspaper columnist, and presently publicity manager of the United Office and Professional Workers of America, C.I.O., is also associated with the foregoing group.
The Government documents were furnished to Gregory Silvermaster, who thereafter photographed them and turned over the undeveloped but exposed film to a contact of the Soviets in either Washington, D.C. or New York City. In the past, it is reported, the contact man made trips to Washington, D.C. once every two weeks and would pick up on such occasions an average of 40 rolls of 35-millimeter film.
Investigation of this matter is being pushed vigorously, but I thought that the President and you would be interested in having the foregoing preliminary data immediately . . .
/S/ J. Edgar Hoover
It is a blunt fact from which there is no escape that, in the teeth of the Nov. 8 warning from the FBI, the developing evidence indicated a substantial spy ring operating within the Government and involving Harry Dexter White and the documented report delivered to the White House on Dec. 4. Some six weeks later President Truman, on Jan. 23, 1946, publicly announced his nomination of Harry Dexter White for appointment to the International Monetary Fund. I just do not understand this. It still seems completely incredible to me.
But the matter does not end there. Because of this development, the FBI compiled a special report devoted exclusively to Harry Dexter White and his espionage activities and delivered it, together with a covering letter, by special messenger on Feb. 4, 1946 to General Vaughan for the attention of the President, to the Attorney General, Tom Clark, and to Secretary of State James Byrnes . . . I will now read into the record the FBI letter, now officially declassified, transmitting the White report:
Dear General Vaughan:
As of interest to the President and you, I am attaching a detailed memorandum hereto concerning Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury Department.
As you are aware, the name of Harry Dexter White has been sent to Congress by the President for confirmation of his appointment as one of the two United States delegates on the International Monetary Fund under the Bretton Woods Agreement.
In view of this fact, the interest expressed by the President and you in matters of this nature, and the seriousness of the charges against White in the attachment, I have made every effort in preparing this memorandum to cover all possible ramifications.
As will be