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Hi. Mark here and welcometo the Kensington Minute.
Born to a poor Jewish family in Boston, he was a late bloomer in academia beginning Columbia at age 29. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard and moved into the Roosevelt administration where he shone. He caught the eye of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau and became one of his trusted minions. He was an outspoken internationalist with a particular distaste for Germany. His plan to deindustrialize Germany after the Allies conquered it was shelved but some of his ideas helped shape the post-war global economic system. He became Director of the international Monetary Fund in 1946. He was also a spy for the Soviet Union.
Who was he? He was Harry Dexter White whom Elizabeth Bentley accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. And she would have known. She was a courier for the secrets. This Red Spy Queen-come-clean accused White of giving valuable Treasury plates to the Soviets and provided drafts of position plans for international meetings. He had a dramatic, some say heroic death, for those who maintained his innocence. In August 1948 he testified to the House Unamerican Activities Committee. He concluded his testimony with assurances of his innocence, and then had a heart attack.
Two days later, he had another heart attack and died. Was he guilty? I say, yes he was. Soviet cables referred to him as “lawyer” and “jurist.” He was under the Soviet’s operational control. But, what do you think? Thank you from Kensington Security Consulting. Out here.
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Hi. Mark here and welcometo the Kensington Minute.
Born to a poor Jewish family in Boston, he was a late bloomer in academia beginning Columbia at age 29. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard and moved into the Roosevelt administration where he shone. He caught the eye of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau and became one of his trusted minions. He was an outspoken internationalist with a particular distaste for Germany. His plan to deindustrialize Germany after the Allies conquered it was shelved but some of his ideas helped shape the post-war global economic system. He became Director of the international Monetary Fund in 1946. He was also a spy for the Soviet Union.
Who was he? He was Harry Dexter White whom Elizabeth Bentley accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. And she would have known. She was a courier for the secrets. This Red Spy Queen-come-clean accused White of giving valuable Treasury plates to the Soviets and provided drafts of position plans for international meetings. He had a dramatic, some say heroic death, for those who maintained his innocence. In August 1948 he testified to the House Unamerican Activities Committee. He concluded his testimony with assurances of his innocence, and then had a heart attack.
Two days later, he had another heart attack and died. Was he guilty? I say, yes he was. Soviet cables referred to him as “lawyer” and “jurist.” He was under the Soviet’s operational control. But, what do you think? Thank you from Kensington Security Consulting. Out here.