Spies

Lady on ladder with a sign and microphone asking President Harry S. Truman to save the lives of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were accused of being spies for the Soviet Union. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit. Negative

Lauchlin Currie, former aide to late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee, denounced as lies the charges that he fed U. S. secrets to a wartime Soviet espionage network. He said the charges of his accuser, Miss Elizabeth Bentley, were based upon "hearsay three times removed." From: Beth Gore.

Miss Elizabeth T. Bentley, described as a "one-time communist espionage agent," is sworn in before taking the stand before a Senate investigating committee where she told how she had gathered military information from U.S. Government sources, including the Army Air Forces, for a Russian travel agency. From: Beth Gore.

Elizabeth T. Bentley takes the stand before the House Committee on Unamerican Activities. She is shown here as she prepared to refute the testimony of Duncan Lee (seated right in back) whom she had accused of supplying secret data to the Russian government during the war years. From: Beth Gore.