Stalin's Secret Agents.

• Author: Sempa, Francis P.
• Position: Joseph Stalin

Stalin's Secret Agents

By M. Stanton Evans, Contributing Editor of Human Events

Video: http://www.heritage.org/events/2012/11/stalins-secret-agents

In a speech at the Heritage Foundation, longtime journalist M. Stanton Evans discussed his new book (authored with Herbert Romerstein) about Soviet infiltration of the U.S. government during the Franklin Roosevelt administration. The topic is not new, but Evans contends that the extent of Soviet infiltration and its consequences for U.S. foreign policy were much more significant than is commonly believed.

Some Soviet agents operated near the highest level of U.S. policymaking. Launchlin Currie was a member of the White House staff; Harry Dexter White was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Alger Hiss was a high-level State Department employee. These and other communists' greatest impact was not in the area of spying or espionage, but in their influence on policymaking.

According to Evans, communists within the U.S. government significantly influenced U.S. policy toward China and Yugoslavia which helped communist...