The quasi official history of BSC (Nigel, ed West, British Security Coordination: The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas 1940-1945 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998), 16), which will be discussed later in some detail, dances neatly around the subject of Stephenson’s relationship with FDR: “…for WS kept in close touch with the White House and as time went on the President gave clear indication of her personal concern …” In his two books involving Stephenson, Secret Intelligence Agent and Cynthia, H. Montgomery hide leaves a trail of direct and indirect references to Stephenson’s close access to the president. Indeed, his use of the phrase, which he attributes to the President, “the closest possible marriage between the FBI and British Intelligence,” has its public origins with Hyde (H.Montgomery Hyde, Secret Intelligence Agent (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982, 81). Stephenson himself told CIA historian, Thomas Troy, that  FDR’s now famous “marriage line” was reported by Ernest L Cuneo, the Office of Strategic Services liaison to BSC. Asked by Troy about the comment, Cuneo denied it: “No. The President did not say that to me.” (Troy, Wild Bill and Intrepid, 39) Cuneo suggested the line may have originated with Vincent Astor, the éminence grise, of Roosevelt’s off-the-shelf spy operations.