Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1953 — Page 6

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(Editor’s note: This is the second in a series .of five dispatches on Communist espionage' in the United States. The following story deals with-the wartime boom in Soviet spring \ against an ally.) f — By JAMES F. WASHINGTON UP—The World War II Russian-American alliance opened vast new opportunities for Soviet esiponage within the borders

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of her new ally. \ Russia lost no time making the most of the situation. Opportunities for successful espionage activities were enhanced, according to some espionage experts, by these factors: 1. A feeling on the part of some misguided individuals that, inasmuch as Russia was an ally, she was entitled to all information, regardless of its secret classification. 2. The influx, after Pearl Har-

bor, of many Russian officials for so-called purchasing and liaison missions in New York and Washington. In many cases, these officials were high-ranking members of the NKVD, the “holding company” of Communist spies. \ i A \One of the most Important of them was Vassili M. Zubilin, who became third secretary of the Soviet embassy here in January, 1942, and later was promoted to second secretary before he returned to Russia in August, 1944. According to congressional committees, Zubilin was in charge of all NKVD activities in this country. As such, he “had *, complete ■■'l.

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charge of the movement of Soviet espionage agents into and out of the United States.” He himself engaged in activities and had many “contacts” throughout the country. The wartime Russian-American alliance also enabled known Soviet agents to circulate more freely without arousing too much suspicion. Among these agents were Gerhart Eisler, a representative of the Comintern, and Jacob Golos, president of World Tourists, Inc., who had pleaded guilty in 1940 of fulling to register as a foreign agent and had received a suspended sen-

tence. Golos was the Russian contact for the most highly-publicized wartime Communist espionage ring—the operations of Elizabeth Bent-, ley and her two spy groups within the government.’ Miss Bentley, a graduate of Vassar and Columbia, became a Communist party member in March, 1935. Three years later she joined the Communist underground. She later met Golos, fell in love with him, and, in July, 1941,. began her espionage activities. She has testified that for the next three years, she received —for transmission to Russia — secret data from individuals in the government and from two separate spy groups. She said the groups were headed by Nathan Gregory Silvermaster and Victor Perlo. Silvermaster was then with the board of economic warfare and later with the treasury department. Perlo, named in congressional testimony as one of the Harold Ware group’s "elite corps" of pre-war underground Communists, was with the , commerce department and later with the office of price administration and. the war production board. Miss Bentley has named 80 persons as having been connected with hbr espionage apparatus, both here and in New York. Os these\ 37 have been identified as federal government employes. - Mi«« Bentley said she received •U kinds of information during the 3 1-Z years the apparatus was under her fehe told senate investigators In 1948 that this infoftnation "... Military information, particularly from the air corps, on production of airplanes, their destinations to the various theaters of war and to various countries, new typ&s of planes being put out, information as to when D-Day would be, all sorts of inside information.” In .1944 — after Golos died — Miss Bentley was ordered by her Russian superiors to turn over her apparatus to other agents; A year later — having broken with Communism — she told her story to the FBI. Ruling Reversed Ry Labor Board WASHTNOTON UP —The national labor relations board reversed a 1951 ruling Monday and said employers can make antiunion speeches to workers on company time without having to give “equal opportunity” to union. representatives. The board at the same time issued a new rule prohibiting any employer or union from making campaign speeches on company time within <24 hours of a bargaining election. |. <\ SNOW, COLD (Ce»tinned Front Page One) ed from .04 inches at Evansville to .28 inches at Lafayette. Only South Bend had a belowfreezing temperature reading among major cities reporting early today. It was 31 there, but other state temperatures at dawn ranged up to thighs were in the 40s throughout the state. >. 'lf you have semething to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur. Democrat Want Ads Bring Results - ■■ ■ ...

Braden Tells Os Communists In State Dept. J Former Assistant Secretary Os State In Testimony Today NEW YORK UP — Former assistant secretary of state Spruille Braden indicated today that Communists in the state department intercepted warnings of Communist infiltration in Latin American countries which he addressed to the secretary of state and the President from 1942 to 1945. In testimony l prepared for delivery before the senate internal security subcommittee this morning. Braden specifically' charged that two important cables he addressed to former-secretary of state James Byrnes and former President Truman in July, 1945, failed to reach Byrnes, and presumably the President. \ Braden described the fate of the cables as a "mystery which might be portentous.” He said they contained a recommendation to Mr. Truman and British Premier Winston Churchill to demand that Stalin end the Communist Infiltration of Latin America when they met with the Russian premier at the Potsdam conference. Braden testified that from 1942, when he became ambassador to Cuba, until 1945 when he left his post as rambassador to, Argentina to become assistant* secretary of state, he "continually reported to the department my growing anxiety about the spread of communism in this hemisphere.” He said he felt it "significant” thqt h P "never received any acknowledgment of my many comumuicaauns on the dangers of cotn-

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munism.” He said it( took a twoyear search and required senatorial pressure “to discover even one copy of an important memorandum of which I personally had delivered several copies to the department in January, 1945.” “Apparently other revealing documents I forwarded on this subject also are missing from the files,” Braden said. Braden said in his opinion it would have been better if America’s secret diplomatic codes had been stolen by Russia, ' than for pro-Russian individuals and groups "to have taken over our foreign operation to the extent they have.” He testified "that he had clashed officially with '“the phalanx” of the Communist conspiracy in Washington including Alger Hiss; Chief counsel Robert Morris said the subcommittee, headed by Sen. William Jenner R-Ind., would ask Braden about Latin American affairs with which he was familiar as assistant secretary and as ambassador to Colombia, Cuba and Argentina. Morris did not what phases of the White case would be brought up. White was a treasury department and international monetary fund official named in FBI reports as a member of a Washington spy ring. . • Braden was among officials in the Truman administration who, according to justice department records, r€feived an FBI report mentioning White in connection with Communist espionage in 1945. After Att. Gen. Herbert Brownell recently raised the issue of the Truman administration’s handling of the White case, Braden was quoted as saying he did not recall seeing any derogatory information about White. Morris said the internal security subcommittee in its New York session also would question “three or four" witnesses at a closed hearing regarding of U.S. citizens employed by the United Nations. Some of these witnesses may later testify at an open hearing, he said. ! .

TUESDAY; DECEMBER 22, 1953

Filling Station Bandit Is Sought PLYMOUTH, Ind. UP — An armed bandit who held up a filling station attendant and escaped with 3125 was sought by police here today. John Wade told authorities the man armed with a .22-caliber pistol entered the Ward Troyer gas station shortly before closing Monday night. Wade said if the robber appeared a few minutes later he probably would have gotten mord money because the safe would have been open. Itade m a uooa town — Decatur

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