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# WASH DC STAR 5 Sept. 60## Halperin Denies Giving Reds Advice on Latinstually at the agreed hour. Hejlished it will be available to the carried the following state-State Department and anybody ment, on which he declined to else willing to purchase a copy."elaborate:The United States Embassy "It seems to me that the declined to comment on the State Department and Henator statement or en Mr. Halperin's Keating are scraping the bot- status. In did say he appearedMOSCOW, Sept. 3 (AP)-- tegle Services, an intelligence tom of the barrel to come up at the embassy in July and Maurice H. Halperin, former organization. with this stale red herring. asked to have his American United States Government offl- After the war, Mr. Halperin "There is nothing mysterious passport renewed. The request cial who now lives in Moscow, got a job with Boston Uni- for dubious about my bring in was granted, an embassy official yesterday accused the State De-versity as a professor. He lost Moscow. Since my arrival I said. partment of issuing a "deliber- this job in 1933 because he re- have filed two United States ate and malicious distortion" fused to tell congressional in- ineome tax returns, listing my about his status here. vestlaators whether he ever had salary and employer. I am not In a typewritten statement. been a member of the Ameri ment any more than Van Ch- Mr. Halperin said: can Communist Party. burn dan American plantst) The bald, mustached 54- when he performs in a govern- "There is nothing mysterious or dubious about my being in year-old Mr. Halperin was lo-ment-owned concert hall. Moscow I am a visiting cated Sundar in a Moscow "I am a visiting professor at professor at the USSR Academy apartment house by a news the USSR Academy of Sciences of Sciences and not the first man and was asked to com- and not the first American to American to be associated with ment on the State Depart- be associated with its some it."Last week Senator Keating. ment's document. fof our leading scientists can Republican of New York, read testify. My appointment and into the Congressional Record ## Declines to Etaborate my Soviet visa expires in July. a State Department document (Moscow reported there were 1961, as the United States Ein- which said Mr. Halperin is now "technical dimeultzes in mor- bassy here very well knows. in Moscow and is "working for ing the story until Monday. "My teaching and resource the Soviet government." The newsınan apparently was activities involve theoretical cut off while trying to teles problems related to the eco- ## Hended 058 Unit phone the story. nomic growth of underdeveloped The document said there Mr. Halperin first declined to areas. For the State Department were indications Mr. Halperin admit the newsman inte his Russians on Latin-American is giving the Soviet govern-apartinent, but agreed to meet Pito say that I am 'advising the ment advice on Latin-American him later in the lobby of a affairs' is a deliberate and ma- affairs. During World War II, nearby hotel where he prom- licious distortion. Mr. Helperin was head of the ised to give a written state study of the Latin-American Latin American division of the ment. "Specifically, I am making a United States Office of Stra- Mr. Halperin appeared pune- of 1958. When my book is pub.