Elizabeth Bentley (1908-1963) was a KGB spymaster
who defected in 1945
with proof the US Government
was riddled with Soviet spies
protected by the FDR Administration.
All governments are either Communist (Left) or Zionist (Right, Fascist)
in a charade to control political discourse
and start wars to exterminate believers in God.
You’ll never see a movie about Bentley or other great female patriots,
Elizabeth Dilling and Bella Dodd,
because Hollywood is controlled by Masonic (Satanist) Jews.
Please provide a summary of the book by Elizabeth Bentley entitled “Out of Bondage” with the conclusions we can draw from it.
By Grok 4
(henrymakow.com)
Summary of “Out of Bondage” (1951) by Elizabeth Bentley
“Out of Bondage” is Elizabeth Bentley’s autobiographical account of her eleven years (1935-1945) as a Soviet espionage courier and assistant to the head of the NKVD (later KGB) underground apparatus in the United States, followed by her dramatic defection to the FBI in November 1945 and her subsequent life as the most important American defector from Soviet intelligence during the early Cold War.
Key points covered in the book: Recruitment and radicalization
Bentley, a Vassar-educated New Englander from a conservative family, became a secret Communist Party member in the mid-1930s while teaching at Columbia. After the death of her lover (an NKVD officer known as “Timmy”), she was taken over directly by the Soviet espionage apparatus.
Her espionage role (1938-1945) From 1938-1941, she worked under Jacob Golos, a senior CPUSA official who was also an NKVD operative. After Golos’s death in 1943, she reported directly to NKVD illegal residencies in New York (first Itzhak Akhmerov, then others).
She ran two large spy networks inside the U.S. government: The “Silvermaster group” (centered in the Treasury Department and including Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie in the White House, and dozens of others).
The “Perlo group” (mostly mid-level officials in War Production Board, OSS, and other agencies).
She personally collected dues, documents, microfilm, and oral reports from sources and passed them to her Soviet handlers.
Disillusionment and defection By 1944-1945 Bentley became increasingly frightened, disillusioned with Stalinism after the Nazi-Soviet pact and the brutal purges, and convinced her new handler (Anatoli Gorsky) intended to liquidate her.
In August 1945 she walked into an FBI office in Connecticut; after weeks of hesitation, she made a full confession in November 1945.
Aftermath The book describes the intense pressure of living under FBI protection, her public testimony before Congress (1948), the HUAC hearings, the Hiss and Rosenberg cases (in which she provided corroborating background), and the personal toll: vilification by the American left as “the Red Spy Queen,” alcoholism, and eventual conversion to Catholicism.
Main conclusions that can be drawn from the book
Scale of Soviet penetration Soviet intelligence had successfully recruited dozens of mid- and high-level U.S. government officials during the 1930s and wartime, many of them ideological communists or fellow-travelers who believed they were helping an ally against fascism. Harry Dexter White and Treasury Department dominance Bentley’s most explosive revelation was that Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White (the No. 2 man under Henry Morgenthau and architect of the IMF and World Bank) was knowingly cooperating with Soviet intelligence, passing policy information and influencing decisions in the Soviets’ favor.
(left, Bentley 1908-1963)
The limits of prosecution
Because almost all evidence Bentley provided was oral (documents had already gone to Moscow), and because many sources had stopped spying by 1945, virtually no one she named was successfully prosecuted for espionage (the major exception being William Remington, convicted of perjury). This fueled later claims of a “witch hunt,” even though Venona decrypts (declassified decades later) largely corroborated her story.
Personal psychology of betrayal Bentley portrays most of her sources not as cartoon villains but as idealistic, often naïve Americans who rationalized their actions as helping the “progressive” side in a global struggle. She herself is frank about her own mixture of ideological fervor, loneliness, and eventual terror. Early Cold War turning point Her defection and 1948 testimony were pivotal in convincing the American public and policymakers that Soviet espionage inside the U.S. government was real and extensive, helping launch the Second Red Scare and the broader anti-communist measures of the Truman and Eisenhower years.
In short, “Out of Bondage” is both a personal memoir of disillusionment and one of the foundational documents exposing the reality of Soviet espionage networks in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. Later historical research and the Venona files have confirmed the essential accuracy of the great majority of Bentley’s claims.
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Major Historical Confirmations from Venona Files (KGB Archives)
Atomic espionage Confirmed Klaus Fuchs, Theodore Hall, David Greenglass, Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, Harry Gold, and others passed atomic secrets. Showed the scale was smaller than Senator McCarthy claimed, but real and serious.
Elizabeth Bentley’s testimony Almost everything Bentley said in 1945-1948 about the Silvermaster, Perlo, and other networks was corroborated by covernames and meetings described in the cables. Harry Dexter White appears repeatedly as a conscious cooperating source (“HURON”).
Vindicated Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers. Confirmed the guilt of the Rosenbergs, Fuchs, Hall, Hiss, Harry Dexter White, and dozens of lesser figures.
In short, Venona is the single most important body of evidence proving that Soviet espionage in the United States during World War II and the early Cold War was real, extensive, and successful–while also showing its precise limits.
Source:
https://henrymakow.com/2025/11/bentley-patriot-proved.html
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