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Is there a connection between Ickes and Albany?

Got any sources about the elder Ickes being a mole (of the Soviets, I take it) in the FDR administration? I knew he was a red-hot leftist, but the big shot in that administration that has been most identified as a mole is Harry the Hop Hopkins (who actually lived in the White House all through WWII).

Got no sources for my theories. That's why I said "I bet". The sources for the Albany connection are just the Wall Street Journal and American Spectator stories about all the union/leftist organizations that were involved in Clinton campaign corruption. Ickes turned out to be at the bottom of it all, but Betty Jo White "declined to prosecute". Like his Dad, Ickes was deep into union organizing and union leftist ties.

Clinton and Ickes went to lots of trouble to make it look like Ickes was fired and banished from the White House, but he then magically turned up back in NY and running Hillary's Senate run. Few papers reported this.

My theory has always been that Ickes was the true evil power behind the Clintons. Check, "Who is Harold Ickes?" in the Wall Street Jounal.

"Got any sources about the elder Ickes being a mole (of the Soviets, I take it) in the FDR administration? "

I don't know how many history books you've read, but I've read of it many.