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Counselor of the Russian Embassy
in Washington. DR.. Dubrowsky pro-
tested, he said, that Russian secret
acrtivities here were contrary to
the recognition agreement made be-
tween President Roosevelt and Rus
sian Foreign Commissar Litvinof.
Understandings be damned" he
quoted Skvirsky as replying. Il can
not do anything. The G. P. U. is
everything"
When Chairman Dies, Democrat,
of Texas inquired whether such
activities still were being practiced
in this country, DR.. Dubrowsky re-
piled: This is the nature Of the
beast. You can't help it. That man
was removed. Another has come, or
will come. to take his place"
DR.. Dubrowsky was asked whether
Russia has any secret agents in the
American postal service. He replied
he did not personally know of any.
Mailboxes Pilfered.
He pointed out, however, he had
complained to a Russian Consul
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ing of mail boxes by Soviet secret
agents, but was told nothing could
be done about it, that the o. G. P. u.
is "all-powerful."
Later Chairman Dies asked DR..
Dubrowsky if the United States
should be dragged" into the war
what would the situation be with
respect to Communists and bund
members in key" positions
You'd have 100000 active agents
of the enemy in the Communist
party alone" he answered.
wouldn't it be more accurate to
say that you would have that many
agents or there would be wholesale
designations from those organiza-
tions?" inquired Representative
Voorhis, Democrat, of California.
That's right" the witness re-
sponded.
DR.. Dubrowsky subsequently de-
clared "the greatest service to real
democracy in the United States"
was Stains unity with Hitler"
Shakedowns Described.
He then gave the committee q
description OF several "shakedown
methods used by Communists to
procure funds to finance propae-
anda.. One, he said, was through
1nreklama, an organization which
| followed up transactions between
Amtorg, Russian trading corpora
| ton, and American concerns with q
suggestion that the companies
cough up" thousand dollars or
so" for an advertisement in some
Russian publication. Since there is
no private enterprise in Russia, he
explained, the advertisements were
useless"
DR.. Dubrowsky at the outsel of his
testimony, amplifled some of the
charges he made last week that the
U. S. S. R. conflscated claims against
American insurance companies by
benefciaries of Russian born Amer
lean citizens, who live in that coun-
try.
He also told the committee that
Charles Recht, New York lawyer
who handled such claims for the
Iniurcollegia, Russian credit bu-
reau, was in error when he testified
last week the only time he served as
an official representative Of the
Soviet government in this country
was in 1920 and 1921. when he was
retained to wind up" the affairs OF
Ludwig Martens. unrecognized So
Wet Ambassador to the United
States in 1920.
For the last 10 years he Recht)
has been an active agent of the
Soviet in the United States" DR..
Dubrowsky declared.
DR.. Dubrowsky's observations led
Chairman Dies to remark:
According to Earl Browder there
are 5000 branches of the Communist
party in the United States, and 100
American Bund posts ac-
cording to Fritz Kuhn. The Ogpu
agents operating in the United
States have at their command the
most elaborate espionage system in
the world
The witness agreed this observa-
ton was correct, and added:
The information gathered by
these agents over period of years
is now in the hands of Hitler and
Stain"
The Roosevelt administration has
instructed the Justice Department
to eliminate about 1850 known
Communists" from Government
service, according to Chairman Dies
service, according to Chairman Dies,
who said yesterday the information
came to him from "a very authori-
tative administration source"
Mr.. Dies said the Justice Depart
ment has been checking for many
months list of persons in key Gov
ernment positions and predicted &C
ton would be taken very soon.
1.-THE action" Mr.. Dies remarked,
will come to q head now that Ger
many and Russia have gotten to-
gether and the Communists are con-
sidered as known enemies" He re-
ferred to the German-Russian nom
aggression pact and the partition of
Poland by those two countries.
Mr.. Dies said he also had been in
formed that one of the country's
leading labor leaders was going to
purge" his organizations high
command" of Communists. He did
not name the labor leader.
The chairman indicated that the
committee will probably ask Con-
gress to outlaw the Communist
party of the United States and the
German-American Bund. Such &C.
ton. he explained, would be taken
on the grounds that the political
activities Of these organizations are
merely a masquerade for spy
system and possible sabotage"
Fritz Kuhn, German American
Bund leader, summoned for Z check
on earlier testimony before the COM
mittee, is afraid to reappear be-
cause he knows we've got him."
Mr.. Dies declared. In an interview
in New York. Mr.. Kuhn said he
would no longer corporate" With
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