Harry Hopkins, FDR's closest advisor, a Soviet Agent with cover as "Agent 19" in decrypted secret Soviet cables from US to Moscow

[PJ OD]

Harry Hopkins, FDR's closest advisor, a Soviet Agent with cover as "Agent 19" in decrypted secret Soviet cables from US to Moscow

Published December 11, 2014

"..Harry Hopkins, FDR's alter ego and the most important Soviet agent in his administration. The fact that Hopkins was a Soviet agent has been known for a long time (though perhaps not as widely known as it deserves to be).....

...the statement of George Marshall, the wartime US Army's Chief of Staff and Hopkins's friend, who told his official biographer: "Hopkins's job with the president was to represent the Russian interests. My job was to represent the American interests." That includes the episode documented in the Mitrokhin archive about Hopkins tipping off the Soviets about the FBI surveillance of certain Soviet spies; and so on, and so forth....."

...the mysterious Soviet agent identified in Venona cables only as "Agent 19" was none other than Hopkins...."

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On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 5:30:48 AM UTC-7, PJ OD wrote:
> Harry Hopkins, FDR's closest advisor, a Soviet Agent with cover as "Agent 19"

On the other hand:
It is likely that any Soviets who spoke to Hopkins would have been routinely required to report the contact to the NKVD, the Soviet national security agency. Some Soviets, such as master-spy Iskhak Akhmerov, thought Hopkins was pro-Soviet, while others thought he was not. Verne W. Newton, author of FDR and the Holocaust, said that no writer discussing Hopkins has identified any secrets disclosed, nor any decision in which he distorted American priorities in order to help Communism. As Mark demonstrates, Hopkins was not in fact pro-Soviet in his recommendations to FDR; he was anti-German and pro-U.S.

Any "secrets" disclosed were authorized. Mark says that at the time, any actions were taken specifically to help the American war effort, and to prevent the Soviets from making a deal with Hitler.

John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr concluded in 2013:
"The case advanced for Hopkins' guilt has two parts. The first is a highly specific claim that Hopkins was a Soviet agent code-named "19," a high level source who appears in a Soviet cable deciphered by the U.S. National Security Agency. That claim, however, is entirely mistaken. The fallback position is that even if Hopkins is not "19," there is nonetheless convincing evidence that he was a Soviet agent. That claim is based on evidence too weak to be the basis for a confident conclusion."