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# FORMER U. S. AIDE AT WORK IN SOVIETEx-Boston U. Professor Was in O.S.S. in World War IIBy JACK RAYMONDSpecial to The New York Times,WASHINGTON, Aug. 31-The State Department has disclosed that a former United States Intelligence official is in Moscow working for the Soviet GovernmentHe is Dr. Maurice Halperin, a former Boston University professor who was head of the Latin American Division of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.Dr. Halperin was dismissed from Boston University in 1954 after he refused to say whether he was a Communist. He has been linked in testimony before Sertate investigators to a Soviet spy ring.The State Department's disclosure was contained in a memorandum in support of a proposed law to deny passports to persons supporting, international communism.The Supreme Court ruled in 1958 that passports could not be denied to Communists or others because of their political beliefsDr. Halperin and his wife, Edith, were then in Mexico City, the State Department noted. They had been linked to the escape behind the Iron Curtain of Alfred K. and Martha Dodd Stern, who were Aunder Federal indictment for espionage.After the Supreme Court ruling, the Halperins applied to the United States Embassy inContinued on Page 7, Caluma 1# The New York Times1 September 1960# FORMER U. S. AIDE AT WORK IN SOVIETContinued From Page 1, Col. 1Mexico City for passports and left Mexico Oct. 13. 1955. At the time, the State Department noted they were about to be deported from Mexico for Communist activities.Reports that Dr. Halperin was working for the Soviet Government in Moscow were confirmed last July 15, the State Department memorandum went on when he and his wife appeared at the embassy to re-hew their passportsEmbassy officials reported that they had been told by Dr. Halperin that he and his wife had been in the Soviet Union since December, 1953, and that he was working for the Soviet Academy of Sciences "doing research in the foreign field, especially relating to underdeveloped countries"The State Departnment, recalling that Dr. Halperin was an authority on Latin-American affairs, added that our information indicates that this probably is the field in which he is working at the present time."State Department officials have repeatedly called attention to the Soviet trade and cultural offensive in Latin America-Referring to Dr. Haleprin's employment by the Soviet Academy, the State Department observed that it was directly subordinate to the Soviet Council of Ministera.....Requested by KeatingThe memorandum was prepared at the request of Senator Kenneth B. Keating. Republican of New York, He and Senstor Thomas J. Dadit, Democrat of Connecticut are sponsoring a bill that seeks to restore some of the State Department's..authority to deny passportsSenator Keating, who entered the memorandum in The Congressional Record of Aug. 16, expressed regret at the time that his bill was not likely to be passed in this session of Congress, President Eisenhower and State Department officials have backed the purpose of the measureMeanwhile, Representative Francis & Walter, Demeerat of Pennsylvania and chairman of the Committee on Un-Amert-can Activity, sud he had erdered a month-long preliminary investigation into the case of two missing employes of the National Security Agency.The two employes of the top-secret coding agency, Bernon F. Mitchell and William H. Martin, are alieged to home taken valuable secrets to the Soviet Union.Representative Walter said that he understood that one of the missing men had made enquiries in their agency about the U-2 reconnaissance plane flight over the Soviet Union before it took place on May 1.Mr. Walter said that he was convinced that the Soviet had had advance knowledge of the flight. Francis Gary Powers. the U-2 pilot, was downed in the Soviet Union and subs quently sentenced to ten years detention.Refused to AppearBOSTON, Aug. 31-Dr. Hal-perin was officially dismissed from the facuity of Boston University on Jan 6, 1954. Не had refused a summons to appear before a university com-mittee of review to discuss his case.Dr. Harold C. Case, president of the university, telephoned Dr. Halperin in Mexico City offering to pay his expenses to Boston and weturn. But thei professor dec declined. He had been chairman of the university's Latin-American regional studies.201-128561.