Harry Dexter White

Born

October 29, 1892

Died

August 16, 1948 (aged 55)

Known as

economist, politician

Harry Dexter White was an American government official in the United States Department of the Treasury. Working closely with the secretary of the treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., he helped set American financial policy toward the Allies of World War II. He was later found to be a soviet spy after passing information to the Soviet Union.

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