 He was recruited by Blunt, who according to "The Telegraph", was also briefly his lover.In 1937, Straight moved to Washington, D.C. where he worked as an economist for the Department of State.He continued to pursue both politics and his stratospheric social life, sharing a house with Joseph Alsop, drafting speeches for and dining with the Roosevelts, and writing his analytic memorandums, some of which he passed on to Soviet intelligence."