According to the book, KGB: The Inside Story by Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, comes this astonishing statement:
In November 1933, William C. Bullitt was assigned as the first US Ambassador to the Soviet Union. While he was an anti-communist later in life, in the 1920s, he married John Reed’s former wife.
In a 1936 cable that he wrote to the US State Department:
“We should never send a spy to the Soviet Union. There is no weapon at once so disarming and effective in relationship with the Communist as sheer honesty.”
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Not to be outdone, on February 20, 1946, Joseph E. Davies, the former American Ambassador to Moscow (1936-38), declared that Soviet Russia had a moral right to resort to espionage to procure atomic secrets.
Davies argued that America’s refusal to give the bomb to the Soviets was, as he expressed it, hostile.
—History As You Heard It by Lowell Thomas
Not only that, when Davies was the US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, he refused to allow a search for Russian microphones in the US embassy, saying, “Let them listen. Then we’ll be friends that much faster.”