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Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case. By R. Bruce Craig. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. x, 436 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1311-0.)
The Cold War is over, but the espionage cases live on. Using newly opened Eastern and Western archives, historians are writing a steady stream of books, providing new details and answering lingering questions about Alger Hiss, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and other prominent spies. Now, in Treasonable Doubt, R. Bruce Craig looks at the case of Harry Dexter White, who was accused in 1948 of espionage by Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley.
Craig provides a thoroughly researched, competently written account of the White case. White served as a high-level official at the Treasury Department from 1934 to 1946 but died shortly after being accused, thus leaving his case unresolved. Because the evidence now is overwhelming that...