‘A Conspiracy So Immense’ — Was FDR Aide Harry Hopkins a Soviet Agent?

The Other McCain ^ | June 6, 2013 | Robert Stacy McCain

[2ndDivisionVet]

“A confidential message from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, reproduced in [Diana] West’s new book, told [White House aide Harry] 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 [former Soviet intelligence officer Vasili] Mitrokhin.”

– ViralRead, “Top FDR Aide Hopkins Was Soviet Agent; Book Examines ‘Betrayal’”

“Robert Stacy McCain has seized on the conclusion . . .” – Diana West, “American Betrayal: Making News”

Just doing my job, ma’am. “Seizing conclusions” is a fairly apt job description and, as was I reading through the book, my head nearly exploded when I saw the evidence against Harry Hopkins.....

[TADSLOS]

The Valerie Jarrett of his time.

[what's up]

Bump

[RobbyS]

More to the point, Joe’s indifference to the threat from Hitler was owing to his fear of The Soviets. Germany came close to a Red take-over in 1919-20 and Nazism, like Italian Fascism, was a counter-stroke. Of course, In totalitarian states, everything turned on the character of the men at the top, and Hitler, like Lenin, Mussolini, and Stalin cared about nothing except power. Looking back, I wonder how much Joe Kennedy suspected about Hopkins and Red Influence in the White House?

[SunkenCiv]

GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach	join list or digest view topics view or post blog bookmark post a topic subscribe
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. 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 [former Soviet intelligence officer Vasili] Mitrokhin. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.