...“Saks” [Solomon Adler], “Pik” [Frank Coe], and “Polo” [William Ullman] is at present the most efficient among the agent network[13] we possess. However, at present only “Pal” is our agent, all the rest are used by us blind. In early March of the current year, we... 2/
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...received a report... of great interest.... Our task is [to make] maximum use of them at present, and to shift them gradually completely into our channel.... In the wartime situation, the work of the War Production Board assumes great importance. To know in advance the... 3/
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...production plans, manufacturing and shipment terms; to know all the functioning leverages of this complicated capitalist machine…"<http://documentstalk.com/wp/vassilievs-notes-on-pavlov-orientation-a-comparison/#_ftn6 …> What I glean from this is: (a) In mid-1942 Harry Dexter White was a source not an agent—he was telling useful... 4/
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...information to Silvermaster, but did not think he was working for the USSR. (b) The hope was to either woo White into becoming an active agent or trap and then blackmail him. (c) What the NKVD was most interested in with respect to White was a window into U.S.... 5/
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...industrial capabilities and the course of mobilization. (d) This would be very useful: it would help Zhukov, Vasiliev & co. better guess what the "Second Front" might be and when; it would help Kosygin & co. figure out what they could realistically ask for in lend-lease... 6/
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...support. (e) But these are not things that threaten the national security of the United States. These are things that make the Grand Alliance more capable, at the price of giving the USSR a better position for bargaining within it. (f) It's a leak of information to an... 7/
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...ally outside of normal channels, and as such a mistake. It does not look to me to be a security risk. But I could be wrong in reading the situation here. 8/END
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I would say that Israel is a very different kind of ally—it is not performing all of the heavy lifting in an existential struggle. But I take your point: Harry Dexter White should have been much more close-mouthed, and not been an idiot with respect to his judgments about... 1/
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I think it's a mistake to see NKVD as competent. That might be our core disagreement.
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An organization that was pushing on an open door given that in the Great Depression so many people had thought that liberal capitalist democracy was over, and they had to choose between Hitler and Stalin as the lesser evil? (Cf. Alan Furst, _Dark Star_.) As I said, one... 1/
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