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How was Glasser's access to classified materials limited? As far as we have been able to determine, it was not. Records in the department indicate that late in 1946 Glasser, described as a member of the espionage ring, received a copy of the FBI report on Victor Perlo which described him as a member of the Soviet espionage ring. Perlo stayed on in the Treasury Department until March 27, 1947.
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster in March 1946 was promoted to become the Chief Economist of the War Assets Administration's Division of Economic and Market Research . . .
A New Approach
As members of this subcommittee know, this Administration is trying an entirely different approach to security problems.
Despite difficulties stemming from past laxity, 1,456 employees have actually been separated from Federal Government payrolls since January 1953 on the grounds that they are security risks . . .
The White case illustrates that it is not enough for men in high Government positions to be loyal. They must also be vigilant to combat the dangers to our Government and our free institutions.
HOOVER:
THERE is more involved here than the charges against one man. This situation has a background of some 35 years of infiltration of an alien way of life into what we have been proud to call our constitutional republic.
Our American way of life, which has flourished under our republic and has nurtured the blessings of a democracy, has been brought into conflict with the godless forces of Communism. These Red fascists distort, conceal, misrepresent and lie to gain their point. Deceit is their very essence. This can never be understood until we face the realization that to a Communist there are no morals except those which further the world revolution directed by Moscow.
The Harry Dexter White and related cases are in point...
In the pertinent time period, our national climate was one conducive to the so-called "united front." Communist-front organizations flourished to the point where it appeared that to belong, in certain circles, was to be stylish.
Even today, the feeling is rife in some quarters that the FBI should not even be investigating the loyalty of Government employees. Over the years, the FBI has been the target of attack from persons both in & out of Government because of its investigations of subversive activities.
Even Harry Dexter White, when we interviewed him in March 1942, spent more time in denouncing investigations of Government employees . . . than he did in furnishing facts. He observed that if the chairman of one congressional committee "was one-tenth as patriotic as I am, it would be a much better country."
Miss Bentley and 29 Others
On Nov. 7, 1945, Miss Elizabeth Bentley advised special agents of the FBI in considerable detail of her own career as an espionage agent. On Nov. 8, 1945, a letter bearing that date was delivered to Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan, wherein it