Harry Hopkins
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Harold Lloyd Hopkins was an American statesman, public administrator, and presidential advisor. A trusted deputy to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hopkins directed New Deal relief programs befor
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1933–1940
Harry Hopkins working at the American Red Cross (1917)
FDR and Hopkins (September 1938)
News photo of Hopkins departing for Britain in January 1941
Venona project
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The Venona project was a United States counterintelligence program initiated during World War II by the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service and later absorbed by the National Security Age
Harry Hopkins
…prevent the Soviets from making a deal with Hitler. It is currently considered likely that Laurence Duggan was the titular agent "19" mentioned in the Venona Project decryptions of Soviet cables. Hopkins may simply have been naïve in his estimation of Soviet intentions. The historian Robert Conquest wrote that…
Meredith Gardner (far left); most of the other code breakers were young women.