I am currently reading Witness by Whittaker Chambers and he cites how he met with and outlined the Washington, DC spy apparatus with names to the Deputy Secretary of State for Security prior to WWII and when, during the war, he finally was contacted by two FBI agents while working at Time he called the Deputy Secretary and asked permission to talk to them. The Secretary had said that Roosevelt had been given the report of the original disclosure and dismissed it as unimportant.
The original meeting, ten years before the hearings and trials that pitted Chambers against Hiss's denials, had the Under Secretary of States critical notes, in re-typed form, finally surface.
Additionally, after Chambers outlined the Soviet apparatus to the FBI agents, he was never contacted again until long after the war. Meanwhile, Hiss sat at Roosevelt's elbow at Yalta. White, another member of the apparatus, founded the World Bank.
When Hiss died not too long ago at the age of 93 the LameStream Media still promoted it as a "accused" communist. This was after the Soviet era papers had been long public confirming yet again, the fact that Hiss was a Soviet agent of Soviet Military Intelligence.
Chamber's outlined in his biography from the fifties why he thinks Roosevelt and others in the Democratic Party didn't concern themselves about the communist activity. As I recall, he attributes it to two reasons. Prior to the Soviet Pact, the Soviets were seen as another opponent of Fascism. Secondly, the world socialist goals were similar to Democrat tendencies, it was felt that the revolutionary nature made it better to change from within and the Bolsheviks were seen as fringe elements.
That point is much the same as Hillary's Masters Thesis that has recently come to light.
Chambers was clearly a gifted writer and a singular intellect. Despite his eccentricities and proclivities, he was a man of courage who wittingly forsook what he regarded to be the winning side and selflessly came over to the side of anti-communism, which he regarded to be the losing side, because he was a patriot and because he saw the evil they do.
I found this to be very revealing of Chambers' character.
