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I seem to remember that Ann Coulter (sorry no picture) wrote in one of her books that Harry Hopkins, FDR's special advisor and key go between him and Churchill, was actually a KGB spy! Can this be true?

Hopkins, Hiss et al were who I had in mind when I posted. Here is an article from year 2000 about Hopkins. From http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/1/5/163140. You can find lots of other references by running a google on "Harry Hopkins Communist."

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Some day historians will have to acknowledge that Harry Hopkins was the greatest traitor in American history, overshadowing Benedict Arnold by far. Arnold, at least, was open in his betrayal, and his potential for damaging the American cause was small by comparison. Hopkins was a Soviet agent who pretended to put America’s interests first while secretly advancing the interests of Stalin.

In his 1990 book "KGB: The Inside Story," Oleg Gordievsky, a high-level KGB defector, reported damning information about Hopkins he heard from Iskhak Akhmerov, an undercover spymaster who controlled the KGB’s "illegal" agents in the U.S. during World War II. He said that Akhmerov had described Harry Hopkins as "the most important of all Soviet wartime agents in the United States." He said that other KGB officers in the directorate in charge of illegals and the U.S. experts in the KGB’s code section, "all agreed that Hopkins had been an agent of major significance."

Gordievsky’s co-author, Christopher Andrew, was not comfortable in publishing this charge. He said Gordievsky had gradually come to believe that Hopkins was an "unconscious" agent, meaning that Hopkins did not realize that Akhmerov was a Soviet spymaster. Akhmerov, who served as a liaison between Hopkins and Stalin, had no open connection with the Soviet embassy or any official Soviet organization in the U.S.

His cover is believed to have been running a clothing store in New York. He used at least three different aliases in dealing with the agents under his control. Hopkins was not so naive as to think that a small businessman who could deliver and receive messages from Stalin was anything other than a high-ranking Soviet intelligence agent. Hopkins never told anyone about this strange little man who was in close touch with the Soviet dictator. He didn’t ask the FBI to investigate him because he knew he was dealing with a Soviet spy.

Further confirmation of Hopkins’ conscious collaboration with the KGB came with the publication last year of "The Sword and the Shield: the Mitrokhin Archive." This was based on copies of KGB files spirited out of Russia by retired KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin. One of them disclosed that Hopkins had informed the Soviet embassy that the FBI had bugged a secret meeting between Steve Nelson, a member of the U.S. Communist underground, and a Soviet embassy official.

The official had gone to California to give Nelson money to finance his espionage operations. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover informed Hopkins in writing that the FBI had planted bugs in both Nelson’s home and in the Communist Party headquarters in New York City. In passing this information to the Soviet embassy, Hopkins proved that he put the interests of the U.S.S.R. above those of the U.S.

Further confirmation of Hopkins’ treachery has been found in a Venona intercept in which Akhmerov reports that an agent identified as "19 " reported a conversation between Roosevelt and Churchill. An endnote in the Mitrokhin book says that "it is probable almost to the point of certainty that Hopkins was ‘19.’"

Over strong opposition, Hopkins persuaded the ailing Roosevelt to go to Yalta, where the fate of Poland and other countries under Soviet occupation was sealed. Hopkins said the Russians had been "reasonable and farseeing." Robert Sherwood, a Roosevelt speechwriter, called Yalta "a monstrous fraud." Hopkins had been instrumental in our supplying, with no conditions, the arms that enabled Stalin to defeat the Germans. He helped seal their control of Eastern Europe, and he is suspected of having authorized shipments of uranium that helped them develop their A-bomb.

No wonder Akhmerov considered Hopkins his most important agent. According to Gordievsky, the KGB believed he helped it triumph "over American imperialism." Hero of the Soviet Union? Yes. American hero? No way!