-Harry Hopkins
Q: What is the source of your insistence that Akhmerov never met with Harry Hopkins and with Alger Hiss?
Pavlov, KGB, in charge of Akhmerov : First, beginning in early 1939, as deputy head of the American section, I naturally read the materials which came from our residencies [stations] in the United States, including the illegal station headed by Akhmerov. After Akhmerov was recalled from the United States at the end of 1939 and particularly after he had been assigned to my section in early 1940…, he would tell me in great detail about his meetings in the United States. I was, naturally, interested in his intelligence capabilities…. Further, I was directly involved in the preparations for Akhmerov’s return to the United States – and supervised his operations in the first months of 1942, before I left for Canada in the summer of 1942…. During my time in Canada as NKGB “legal resident,” I was well-informed on the situation in the United States, because I used to come to New York from Canada from time to time…. At the time of [Gordievsky’s] allegation about Hopkins [1990], we made a detailed check into Akhmerov’s circumstances in that period [and concluded]: there was no chance that Akhmerov had ever participated in any meeting at which Hopkins could have been present. Due to his [Akhmerov’s] low social standing [in the United States] – petty businessman – there was no chance of his ever meeting Hopkins. … The nonsense [of Gordievsky’s allegations] was obvious. …
… To facilitate the Soviet Government’s relationship with the Roosevelt Administration [during World War II – S.Ch.] we did use our agents in U.S. government agencies … to obtain information on positions of certain individuals. … [For instance,] we were interested in people who came [to Russia] on missions – like Hopkins – [to ascertain] what their position and role was. But there was never any talk of their recruitment. …
Q: Speaking of the World War II period: to what extent was intelligence used as [a] back channel of communication between Stalin and Roosevelt? … Was there any participation of your intelligence service … to facilitate Stalin’s contacts with people like Hopkins?
Pavlov: Intelligence – no. Intelligence could have played a preliminary role by providing information about these people – their attitudes, their position, the chances of establishing cooperation with them, etc. http://documentstalk.com/wp/harry-hopkins-a-glimpse-into-the-russian-records/
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Combined with his taste for luxury and the cost of his vices, those expenses are likely to have outstripped his meager government income. A common acronym for the main four reasons that people get involved in espionage is “MICE,” Money, Ideology, Compromised, and Ego. Often it only takes one of them, but Hopkins would appear to have been vulnerable on all four points....
Communist defector Whittaker Chambers had told Roosevelt’s security adviser, Adolf Berle, all about Harold Ware’s spy nest, which included the infamous Alger Hiss, in 1939. Berle had relayed the information to Roosevelt, and Roosevelt had blown him off. Spying for the Reds under Roosevelt was essentially risk free. The results are well summed up by historian Thomas Fleming on page 319 of his 2001 book, The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War within World War II:
There was scarcely a branch of the American government, including the War, Navy, and Justice Departments, that did not have Soviet moles in high places, feeding Moscow information. Wild Bill Donovan's Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, had so many informers in its ranks, it was almost an arm of the NKVD. Donovan's personal assistant, Duncan Chaplin Lee, was a spy.
The spy ring also reached into the White House in the person of economic adviser, Lauchlin Currie, according to Chambers. ...
The following passage is from page 275 of The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tzouliadis (2008):
Victor Kravchenko* had been a Soviet Lend-Lease official who defected in 1944, while stationed in New York. At the time, the Soviet embassy had tried hard to force Kravchenko’s extradition as a war-time “deserter,” and had engaged the willing intervention of Ambassador Joseph Davies to its cause. What followed was the farce of the FBI having to call up Kravchenko anonymously to tip him off that “the heat was on” from the State Department, and warn him that he should “carefully hide himself.” But Kravchenko’s English was not yet up to such head-spinning machinations, and the FBI agent had to repeat the whole conversation to a friend, who took the appropriate evasive action on Kravchenko’s behalf. Joseph Davies, meanwhile, appealed directly to the president and secretary of state to have Kravchenko sent back to Russia. The moral issue of Kravenchenko’s inevitable execution was elegantly sidestepped by Harry Hopkins, who argued that if he was returned, no one would know what happened to him. Only President Roosevelt had sensed a fast-approaching political calamity; “Will you tell Joe that I cannot do this?” he instructed his secretary, and the defector’s life was spared. (emphasis added) ...
The following passage is from pp. 118-119 of Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein (2012):
Hopkins’s pro-Soviet leanings would be on further display in the Yalta records, where his handwritten comments are available for viewing. Though seriously ill at the time of the meeting, he continued to ply his influence with FDR, who himself was mortally sick and susceptible to suggestion in ways that we can only guess at. After FDR had made innumerable concessions to Stalin, there occurred a deadlock on the issue of “reparations.” At this point, Hopkins passed a note to Roosevelt that summed up the American attitude at Yalta. “Mr. President,” this said, “the Russians have given in so much at this conference I don’t think we should let them down. Let the British disagree if they want—and continue their disagreement at Moscow [in subsequent diplomatic meetings]” (Emphasis added by Evans and Romerstein).
One may search the Yalta records at length and have trouble finding an issue of substance on which the Soviets had “given in” to FDR—the entire thrust of the conference, as Roosevelt loyalist [Robert] Sherwood acknowledged, being in the reverse direction. http://www.dcdave.com/article5/110211.htm
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The extended 1949 trial in France featuring hundreds of witnesses was dubbed "The Trial of the Century". The Soviet Union flew in Kravchenko's former colleagues to denounce him, accusing him of being a traitor, a draft dodger, and an embezzler. His ex-wife appeared as well, accusing him of being physically abusive and sexually impotent. When a KGB officer alleged that he had been found mentally deficient, Kravchenko jumped to his feet and screamed, "We are not in Moscow! If you were not a witness, I'd tear your head off!". In a convincing case, Kravchenko's lawyers presented witnesses who had survived the Soviet prison camp system, including Margarete Buber-Neumann, the widow of German Communist Heinz Neumann, who had been shot during the Great Purge. As a survivor of both Soviet and Nazi concentration camps, her testimony corroborated Kravchenko's allegations concerning the essential similarities between the two dictatorships. The court ultimately ruled that Kravchenko had been unfairly libeled, and was awarded only symbolic damages. In the view of one close observer, Alexander Werth,
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By September these parts of Hopkins’s top-secret memo were in the hands of Stalin and the NKVD, allegedly transmitted by Lauchlin Currie, a Canadian-born U.S. economist who at the time was working for Hopkins in Washington as a lend-lease administrator. -David L. Roll, The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler, p. 133
And who, one might ask, chose Currie for such a sensitive position? We would never be told this by Roll, but Currie was among those who had been identified by Whittaker Chambers, who had defected from the Communists by that time, in 1939 as a Soviet spy to Roosevelt’s security chief Adolf Berle, and Berle had immediately passed the information on to Roosevelt. The details can be found in “FDR Winked at Soviet Espionage.” ...
US Ambassador to Soviet Union 1936-8 Joseph Davies is right up there with Hopkins as a cementer of the vital alliance with the Soviet Union throughout the war. Roll never tells us, though, that Davies might as well have been on Stalin’s payroll, such an enthusiastic publicist for the Soviet dictator was he. Not even Walter Duranty of The New York Times did as much to give the American people a favorable misimpression about Stalin’s genocidally oppressive regime. His book, Mission to Moscow, written at FDR’s insistence and published in 1941 endorsed the Moscow show trials and executions—actions that had so disgusted Whittaker Chambers that it drove him out of the Communist Party at the risk of his life. ...
the massacre of the Polish officer corps at Katyn Forest. This is from page 268 of Roll. Up to this point, the Germans had been blamed for the massive war crime: Churchill and the exiled Polish government in London believed the German claims [of Soviet guilt] were true—as they were—whereas Davies, Roosevelt, and Hopkins tended to side with the Soviet Union’s denials. (Indeed, when the Poles exiled in London publicly denounced the Soviets for the massacre, Hopkins responded that they were troublemakers, interested only in preventing their large estates from falling into Russian hands.) ...
A confidential message from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, reproduced in West’s new book American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, told Hopkins that a “continuing” investigation had discovered that Russian diplomat (and Comintern agent) Vasily Zarubin had made a payment to U.S. Communist Party official Steve Nelson to help place espionage agents “in industries engaged in secret war production … so that information could be obtained for transmittal to the Soviet Union.” This information had come from a “bug” at Nelson’s home in Oakland, California, through which the FBI first learned of the Soviet effort (code-named “Enormous”) to obtain the atomic secrets of the Manhattan Project. Instead of warning President Roosevelt, however, Hopkins “privately warned the Soviet embassy in Washington that the FBI had bugged a secret meeting” between Nelson and Zarubin, according to documents from the KGB archives smuggled out by Mitrokhin. http://www.dcdave.com/article5/140121.htm
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https://books.google.com/books?id=9-aWT--8erwC&pg=PA188&dq=American+Betrayal+nelson+zarubin&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjViOmk4ezYAhUY6WMKHQirBFEQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=American%20Betrayal%20nelson%20zarubin&f=false
at page 182 of above link:
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