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During the [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|FDR Administration]], Berle worked on the [[New Deal]] and the [[Good Neighbor Policy]].
As Assistant Secretary of State (1938-1944) in charge of security, Berle had a 1939 meeting, arranged by journalist Isaac Don Levine, with former [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[espionage|agent]] [[Whittaker Chambers]], two days after the signing of the [[Hitler-Stalin pact]]. In his notes of that meeting, which he titled "Underground Espionage Agent," Berle listed a series of names, including that of State Department official [[Alger Hiss]], to which he appended the notation, "Member of the underground Com.--Active."<ref>[http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page100.html Adolf Berle’s Notes on his Meeting with Whittaker Chambers]</ref> In his 1973 memoirs, Levine wrote that Berle told him a few weeks later that he had brought the matter to FDR's attention, without success: “To the best of my recollection, the President dismissed the matter rather brusquely with an expletive remark on this order: ‘Oh, forget it, Adolf.’”<ref>{{cite book | first = Isaac Don | last = Levine | authorlink = Isaac Don Levine | title = Eyewitness to History: Memoirs and Reflections of a Foreign Correspondent for Half a Century | location = New York | publisher = Hawthorn Books | year = 1973 | isbn = | oclc = 604906 | pages = pp. 197–198 }}</ref>
Berle later served as [[Ambassador]] to [[Brazil]] from [[1945]] to [[1946]], and was a founding member of the [[New York State]] [[Liberal Party (New York State)|Liberal Party]]. In 1961, he headed a task force for President [[John F. Kennedy]] that recommended the [[Alliance for Progress]].
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