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# Ex-OSS Official WorksFor Reds in MoscowBy VICTOR LASKYNorth American Newspaper AllianceA former Boston University professor, who once was a high official in the OSS has turned up in Moscow working for the Soviet government.The professor, Dr. Maurice H. Halperin, fled this country seven years ago after an inquiry into his Communist background.According to the State Department, he probably is advising Soviet officials on Latin American affairs. an area in which he is expert.Prof. Haiperin was suspended By Boston University in 1953 after he refused, on constitutional grounds, to tell a Senate subcommittee whether he had ever been a Communist Party member.According to the State De- partment, he had previously been involved in Soviet espio-> [Figure: Photo of Maurice H. Halperin]> MAURICE R. HALPERIN> -AP Photoage in wartime Washington. Dr. Halperin. It was obvious on the basis of the information contained in his dossier thatHe had been named by Eliza- the State Department had been beth Terril Bentley, admitted keeping an eye on the former former spy courier, as one of professor's movements for some her sources of supply among time.Government officials.Intrigue In MexicoAnd since 1953. Dr. Halperin Fired in Oklahomahas been involved in still more From 1931 to 1941. Dr. Hal- Intrigue as an "exile" in Mexi- perin-s Harvard University, co. It It was he, for example, graduate had been a professor who assisted two suspected at the University of Oklahoma.spies in their flight from Mex- According to the record. it was ico to Czechoslovakia to avoid Communist activities in Okla- United States extradition pro-homa and, on repeated visitsproceedings. to Mexico, conferred with Mex-On July 15, 1960. Dr. Hal-ican Red leaders. On one visit perin and his wife, Edith, ap- to Cubs in 1935, he and other peared at the United States leftwingers had been arrested Embassy in Moscow to present by Cuban authorities and ex- their United States passports pelled from the country...for renewal.. : 1941 הן. much of this was```WASH DCSTAR31 Aug 60```various questions concerning; his alleged Communist activities.In Novemser, 1933. Dr. Hal- perin and his wife without noufying the university, left their home in the middle of the! night never to return Turming! up in Mexico, ther became members of the American Communist group in Mexico.Like most ACGM members the Haiperins did well. Thes invested in an ice cream com- pany, dabbled in real estate. and obained robs Dr. Halperin was employed by the Mexican government as a financial con- sultant and dus wife taught in the American School Founda tion.They also became friendly with Alfred K. Stern and his wife, the former Martha Deed daughter of a former United States Ambassador to Germany.The fact the Sterns had been Implicated in Soviet espionage came out with the arrest in New York of Jack Sobie, a Soviet agent. To avoid being ex- tradited to the Frated States to testify before a special grand Jury on their associations w Sotle and the double ase Boris Morros" the Sterns fledto Czechoslovakia in July, 1957.Dr. Halperin described as being "Intimateir involved in; their plans for escape." hadPobtained airline reservations for the Sterns under otherHALPERIN Continued Froca First Page names. As a result, the Mexi ernment service. Employed as can government was consider chief of the Late Americanins his case for deportation. division of the office of Stra- On October 15, 1958, the Hs!! 'teste Services 008 was perins left Mexico, having then the United States Crikan obtained plane reservations in Intelligence-Gatheres Agency, the names of other personshe later was transferred to the State Department in boch agencies, accords to the Elizabeth Bentley testimony, he transmitted centennal.docu ments to a Soviet spy ring.In Russia Since 1958The State Department mem- orandum concludes:"We received information shortly after Halperin's de- parture from Mexico that bei:was employed in Moscow bybrad of the USSR. The was coummearesical on July 15. 1960, when theLinked to Spy RingIn 1949, he became brad of the USSR. This methe Latin American students section a: Boston Uni-Halperins appeared as the versity's College of Liberal American Embassy in Moscow Arts. (and presented their United A year later. be was first States passports for renewal..publicly identiced as a member "Halperin stated that be of a Soviet spy ring. This came came had been in the USSR since about when Vice Presscens December, 1938, and that heNixon, then a Calfornia Con-employed by the Soviet AcadeAll this was disclosed in a disclosed in an investigationState Department memoran- conducted by an Oklahoma dum prepared for Senator State legislative committee. Keating. Republican of New. The committee. Investigating York, who has been urging the subversive activities in Okla-gressman, made on a top emy of Sciences where he passage of Eisenhower-sup- homa. produced information supported legislation empowering that in 1540 Dr. Halperin had the department to deny pass- cashed a check for $436 drawn ports to active participants in on the Bank of Foreign Trade Soviet skullduggery.The memorandum. citing Halperin was dismissed from "cases where passports have the University of Oklahoma. had to be issued to known Despite this record. Dr. Hal- Communists," devoted consid-perin managed to enter Gov- rable attention to the case of See HALPERIN, Page A-6relating to secret memorsace on es-idoing research pionage transmed by FBI underdeveloped countries. Director. Edtar Hoover to "It will be recalled that Has the White House ca Noven-perin is somethms of an ber 8. 1945. thority on Latin Americas In March 1963 ב Boetan affairs. Our information in Federal Buikting. Dr. Halpern dicates that this probab repeatedly invoked בתת אל the field in which he is wort Amendment when a bear-ling at the present time.ing conducted by the Senate "The Sovies Academy of Internal Securts Steamt- Sciences is directly subordinate tee he refused to reply toito the Council of Ministers."31 Aug 60201-128521