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the F.B.I. didn't altogether believe, and by Elizabeth Bentley, whom the F.B.I., you remember, didn't believe at all when she first came to them. They thought she was a crack-pot. They didn't believe her, you see. In her case, she had to prove to the satisfaction of the F.B.I. that she had received money from the Russians and would receive it again, and she met a couple of Russians on the street-corner way over on the West side of New York City and the F.B.I. was looking at them from a secret spot, and she handed the Russians some papers, something or other that had been agreed upon in advance. She conversed with them for several minutes and they handed her an envelope which contained $72, which she took and brought back and gave to the F.B.I.

That convinced the F.B.I., who knew who these men were. They say they did. I mean, they recognized them as being among the agents of the Russian Government. And that convinced them that she was telling the truth when she said that she had had this kind of a relationship with the Russian Government.

But all these things were still absolutely bidden, and the world knew nothing about them, and I don't know the extent to which the F.B.I. had brought forth anything significant. Nothing significant enough so that anybody in the Attorney General's office was in a position to make an issue of it or take action on it. But there was this undercurrent of belief that the Communists had made considerable