I see Harry Hopkins is once again in the news. Any opinions on whether he was a Soviet agent, or not?
My gut reaction is no, I don’t think he was. I think he was “sympathetic” to the USSR, perhaps to the point as to call him a “Communist sympathizer.” If not a “sympathizer” he was at least a “useful idiot.” He clearly favored Stalin over Hitler, when both were evil men. Hopkins was typical of the left-wing types that FDR surrounded himself with.
I don’t think he was an outright spy, though.
Yep. So was Roosevelt’s aide, whose name, I believe, was Laughlin Curry. Wallace approached the NKVD before his run in ‘48 and made offers of service if he won the White House.