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<div style="background: #ccf; font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 1px 3px;">This article is part of the<br/>[[Venona project|Venona]]<br/>series.</div>

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[[CPUSA#Secret_apparatus|Secret apparatus]]<br/>

[[CPUSA#Secret apparatus|Secret apparatus]]<br/>

[[Works Progress Administration]]<br/>

[[Works Progress Administration]]<br/>

[[Board of Economic Warfare]]<br/>

[[Board of Economic Warfare]]<br/>

In 1943, Congressman Fred Bradley accused Niles of having communist connections while involved with the Ford Hall Forum. [http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hstpaper/niles.htm]  More recent allegations of Communist connections to Niles have arisen:

In 1943, Congressman Fred Bradley accused Niles of having communist connections while involved with the Ford Hall Forum. [http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hstpaper/niles.htm]  More recent allegations of Communist connections to Niles have arisen:

:"An NKVD [[Venona]] document, a decrypted Soviet message, from New York to Moscow reported on a plan to send a husband and wife team of NKVD 'illegals' to Mexico.[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/01_Jun_1944_R3_m1_p1.gif] The message said, 'Through CAPITAN'S (Roosevelt’s) advisor David Niles –will take 3-4 days, will cost 500 dollars.... [A]round Niles there is a group of his friends who will arrange anything for a bribe. Through them TENOR ([[Michael W. Burd]]) obtains priorities and has already paid them as much as 6000 dollars. Whether NILES takes a bribe himself is not known for certain.' Burd was a Soviet agent and an officer of the [[Midland Export Corporation]] in New York City."

:"An NKVD [[Venona]] document, a decrypted Soviet message, from New York to Moscow reported on a plan to send a husband and wife team of NKVD 'illegals' to Mexico.[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/01_Jun_1944_R3_m1_p1.gif] The message said, 'Through CAPITAN'S (Roosevelt’s) advisor David Niles –will take 3-4 days, will cost 500 dollars.... [A]round Niles there is a group of his friends who will arrange anything for a bribe. Through them TENOR ([[Michael W. Burd]]) obtains priorities and has already paid them as much as 6000 dollars. Whether NILES takes a bribe himself is not known for certain.' Burd was a Soviet agent and an officer of the [[Midland Export Corporation]] in New York City."

(Romerstein and Breindel, p. 180.)

(Romerstein and Breindel, p.&nbsp;180.)

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