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Harry Dexter White

August 16, 1948

American economist and Soviet spy (1892–1948)

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Harry Dexter White was an American economist and politician and was a key architect of the Bretton Woods system of 1944, which led to the creation of the International Monetary Fund. Later in the Cold War he was convicted as a spy for the Soviet Union.

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