By John Koster

Lately declassified facts and never-before-translated records inform the true tale of the day that FDR memorably declared might dwell in infamy, exploring how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used an enormous community of double brokers and communist sympathizers—most particularly Harry Dexter White—to lead Japan into struggle opposed to the USA, offering Soviet involvement at the back of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

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Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor

Lately declassified proof and never-before-translated files inform the true tale of the day that FDR memorably declared may reside in infamy, exploring how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used an enormous community of double brokers and communist sympathizers—most particularly Harry Dexter White—to lead Japan into conflict opposed to the us, providing Soviet involvement at the back of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

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In moments of tension, Bykov would sometimes lurch into desperate outbursts in German, even when they were conversing on the street. Chambers found this nerve-racking. When Bykov suggested that the underground informers in the United States government be paid for their information, Chambers was aghast. Chambers felt—and he may have been right—that the Soviet agents were supplying information out of loyalty to Marxism or disdain for snobbish upper-class America, rather than out of simple greed. “Money!

S. military maneuvers. He also urged an embargo against any country at war with Russia—Britain was the only candidate—and wanted to require that Russia place an embargo on Germany and the countries the Germans 61 had captured a year before. Russia was then selling Germany the oil that powered the Luftwaffe’s bombing of London and the U-boats that sank British and neutral ships. One of White’s stated goals was to “ . . ” Another was to weaken Germany. But after the whole world had condemned Russia for the destruction of Poland and the amputation of a large piece of Finland, Roosevelt and Morgenthau were in no mood to accommodate Stalin—still a nominal ally of Hitler and a non-combatant enemy of Britain.

Next the mail brought an engraved invitation to a reception at the embassy. The astounded carpenter soon received a 34 telephone call from Harry Dexter White, who had discovered that a black carpenter who shared two-thirds of his name was receiving expensive gifts from the Soviet embassy. White the federal bureaucrat timidly suggested that White the black carpenter keep half of the largesse and return the other half. “I was going to send them all back to him, but I thought: he’s the kind of fellow, that if I send them all back, will still think that I kept half.

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