[gaspar]

You probably mean Harry Dexter White, Department of the Treasury number 2 man, Communist spy, advisor to Henry Morganthau, and first chief of the International Monetary Fund. Another very likely candidate was David Niles, Truman advisor on Palestine and Jewish affairs. Niles had the unusual habit of cleaning his desk (i.e., destroying everything) at the close of every year.

[ExpandNATO]

No, he means Harry Hopkins.

One of the Venona books had a discussion on why Hopkins was probably a Soviet spy. The one reason is that Hopkins met the illegal rezident (the second Soviet spymaster who is in the US not as an embassy employee, but uncover just in case the embassy is every closed down) and no one other than Soviet spies are supposed to know who this is or meet with him.

[cwb]

I believe it was Harry Hopkins who was one of FDR's closest friends. I believe was in charge of FDR's Lend-Lease, that gave the Soviet's everything we had. He was quoted by the Soviet's as being "the most important of all." Hopkins: "Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect, because people are too damn dumb to know the difference." Although, Harry White was right there with the rest of the 'rats.

Heck, I just got done reading some quotes from FDR's chief economic advisor (Rexford Tugwell) and the fact that these people were almost out in the open with some of their views is scary.