[La Lydia]

According to Wiki, which I know isn't infallible, Wallace was endorsed by the Communist Party (USA), and his subsequent refusal to publicly disavow any Communist support cost him the backing of many anti-Communist liberals and socialists, such as Norman Thomas. Christopher Andrew, a University of Cambridge historian working with evidence in the famed Mitrokhin Archive, has stated publicly that he believed Wallace was a confirmed KGB agent.

[Bernard Marx]

Christopher Andrew, a University of Cambridge historian working with evidence in the famed Mitrokhin Archive, has stated publicly that he believed Wallace was a confirmed KGB agent.

Thanks for that -- I thought I'd researched Wallace pretty well. I just finished Weinstein's "The Haunted Wood" (among many books I've read on Soviet spying) and while Wallace's Soviet sympathies were clearly evident Weinstein stopped short of calling him an agent. (I confess I feel Weinstein's sympathies often seem to be more aligned with the Russian spies he writes about than with the Americans whose safety they endangered, but that's just an impression).

There's no question in my mind that Wallace was a full-bore Communist and I give FDR a point or two for booting him out in favor of Truman even though he probably did it for crass political reasons. Can you imagine what would have happened had Wallace become President after Roosevelt's death instead of Truman?