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Setting the Record Straight: Harry Dexter White and Soviet Espionage

by R. Bruce Craig

4-30-12

R. Bruce Craig is the author of "Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case" (University Press of Kansas, 2004). He is currently putting the finishing touches on his biography of Alger Hiss titled, "The Lives of Alger Hiss: The Myths, the Masks, The Man," due out in 2013.

*For purposes of clarity, "KGB" in this essay refers the Soviet intelligence secret police agency of that name from 1954-1991 and that organization's predecessors from 1917-1954.