"As Assistant Secretary of the Navy, FDR also began cultivating his own intelligence sources. Among the most prominent was multi-millionare publisher and property developer Vincent Astor. In 1927, Astor had set up an informal intelligence group known as "The Room" that met monthly in New York City in an apartment building at 34 East 62d Street with a mail drop and an unlisted telephone number.
Prominent members of Yhe Room included FDR's cousin, Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt; Banker Winthrom W. Aldrich; Judge Frederic Kernochan; Philanthropist William Rhinelander Stewart; the assistant secretary of air F. Trubee Davison; and David Bruce, who later served in London both as wartime chief of the OSS and as postwar ambassador."
Perhaps some old explosive secrets lying around??
"Prominent members of Yhe Room included FDR's cousin, Kermit"
I knew that frog gig was a front. Nothing but puppetry propaganda. Some even say Charlie McCarthy started the red scare while U.S. Senator.