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# The Washington Post6 December 1958## Red Asylum in Mexico . . By Roscoe DrummoudForeign Communists Find It a Safe Operating BaseMEXICO CITY-Foreign today. The record is perfect- sheltered safely here. TheyCommunista continue to Sud ly clear on that. both made off for Prague,!Mexico an-exsy and valuable where they were lately joinedbase from which to to opetate For five years Mexico har- by Nautice Halpern, a for-and they bored some 100 to 150 Ven-mer Boston University teachare operating eruclan Communist leaders er who was also thing hereon a large assembled under the direc - and now all three arescale. today. thon of the Soviet Embassy. ready for future assignments.Mexico pro They carried on subversion Moscow maintains a busyvides not only against their country from and buleing embassy in Mex-a welcome within Mexico and the dan- ico City, one of us largest inhaven when gerous rise of communism in the western hemisphere, tothings get tou Venezuela came from-services direct and energize subverhot at hone rendered while Mexico was sive operations. There are-there are making it safe for them to 128 adults on the embassyat least 100 operate. They have now made list and 48 chidren. Wivesfaist trrummond their way back to Venezuela. do their embassy choresfamilies whether they are arcredistifrom the United States here There is a group of at least or notpight ga.. Dit also a strate- Guatemalan Comununistsנואת זין which to mount who are doing the same sat thing. thi The clandestine charatiserventivities through and are waiting only the of much of the Soviet en4. the western hemispitere. tunely mugient to return. bassy's role here is illustratFor years the Mexican gov Occasionally a foreign Coni- ed by its extremely tight opernment has given sate har- munist violates his "asylum" erations. It does not permittor for foreign Communists Distantly that he runs itseif to empley a singleas well as revolutionaries of afoul of the law here or else- Mexican nationai to do thenthe extreme right-on the the where. This is what happened the most mental caretakingory that it was applying the to Jose Manuel Fortuny, the work. A Mexican isi't alresported and humane con Secretary General of the lowed even to polish the knobcept of asylum for those suf- Communist Party in Guate- on the outside of the frontfering political persecution. mala, who has been operating door. It uses only tea nonfreely here, for some time. Soviet employes and theseMexican leaders and intel. He obtained a false Mexican are Communists imported!lectusis greatly pride them pasport to go to Moscow a from Spain. All ten speakselves that their country of few weeks ago, but this be- Russian fluently.fers asylum so freeiy and so came known and had in beEven the education of theunquestioningly and there is discarded He started his re- children of the embaser sta!!no evidence that the new turn trip by way of Rio de bacarried on inside the emRovernment will change this Janvire and was picked up by bassy, walls and no MexicanFelter in any important par the alert Krazilian police for teachers are engloved.ticular. presenting another false pass. The Soviet embassy has teport officers on Ita military staf!But choose to recognize is Communist population here among whom are three ravalthat there is a vast differ hovers around 3) most of captains this in a countryence betwren providing the time. Once in a while a whose navy is virtually non-atum for those who are U. S. Communist as in the existent. This staff s obperseruted and providing recent case of Gus Hall, given vlously more concerned withasylum for those who use over to U. S. authori- to what military secrets it canthie pristiege to prepare ties. But this is a rarity procure from the Unitedsection agzinar others. When Communist Albert S. States than from Mexico parStern whose wife is Commu ticularly since the border is1819 the war the great nist Marta bodd Stern, was so easy to cross by agentsStration of poistirai wanted to setur in the So who serve the Somic boTHE ADULT United States ble Soviet per in MexicIn is beme abused hereWhat Mestran leaders de