The origin of the claim that White was a KGB agent is in the book on the KGB by Andrew and Gordievsky, one of the most accurate such volumes. Skidelsky also confirmed the likelihood of this to me privately. He has been spending a lot of time in Russia talking to various bigwigs recently.
White's role was apparently mostly one of being an informant on high-level policy. Certainly his positions at Bretton Woods and elsewhere strongly supported US capitalist interests. Skidelsky noted, however, that at Bretton Woods he supported a higher quota for the USSR. Barkley Rosser On Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:54:04 -0400 Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> wrote:
> > Harry Dexter White of the US (curiously enough a Soviet
> > agent).
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> Has this been documented?
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> MBS
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-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu