High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Harry Dexter White (October 9, 1892 – August 16, 1948) was an American economist, and senior U.S. Treasury department official, participating in the Bretton Woods conference. Specifically, White wrote the first draft laying out the International Monetary Fund one week after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and also contributed to forming the World Bank, economic pillars of the renowned Washington Consensus. White testified and defended his record to HUAC in August 1948. Three days after testifying he died of a heart attack at his summer home in FitzWilliam, NH. A number of sources, including the FBI and Soviet archives, indicate that he passed secret state information to the Soviet Union.