The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-23
Budenz Stirs Soviet Police Tolk in US.
 Ex-Red's Charges
 Identical Co Report
 Mode in Conodo

Washington, Nov g tUP) - Louis P. Budengs charge that Soc viet secret police are at work in this country looked today as though it might be the understatement of the year.
 BudenSe is the former editor of the Communist Daily Worker who repudiated the party year ago and returned to the Catholic Church. His statement yesterday that he be- lieved Soviet secret police were op- erating in the United States start- led the House Committee lnvesti- gating un-American activities.
 Budena also told the committee that the revolutionary Communist Internationale still was function ing despite the is4S Moscow an- nouncement that it had been aban- doned. The Soviet Union, he said, uses the Communist Party in the United States as means toward "es- tablishing world proletarian die. tatorship."
 Canadians Far Ahead 
 Those charges are substantially identical with the report of a Royal Commission which investigated Communist activities In Canada But the Royal Commission report went considerably further The Canadian investigation already has resulted in the prosecution and con- viction of several Canadians on charges of dealing with Soviet offi- cials during the war. The latest con- victed was Capt. Gordon Lunan, wartime Canadian Information Service official, who was sentenced this week to five years in prison for his part in Canada's Soviet spy ring. He was convicted of conspiracy to divulge secret information to Russian agents.
 The Canadian investigation was set of when Igo Gouzenko, a Rus sian embassy code clerk, fled from his Ottawa home and offlce and told his story to Canadian police. The Royal Commission report was based largely on Gouzenko's testimony. He spoke with intimate knowledge of one Soviet Army undercover sys- tenn in Canada and the implication of his testimony was that conditions existing in Canada were also to be found in the United States.
 But the commission said there were several, perhaps five, parallel Soviet Russian undercover systems operating in Canada, not merely the secret police. The Royal commis- sion report quoted Gousenko as fol- lows:
 They (the Soviet governmenD were trying to establish a fifth col- umn in Canada. You may have dis covered IS men but it still leaves in Canada this dangerous situation be- cause there are other societies and other people working under every embassy, under every consul in each place where there is a consulate. There are parallel systems of spies or potential agents ."
 Agents Passed on in Moscow
 The commissioners further re- ported;
 "Gouzenko testified that there was a five-man committee in Mos- COW winch passes on Soviet officials who are being sent to foreign coun- 1 tries. This committee consists of representative of the (secret poe lice) NK.V.D, the military intelli- gence, the naval service, the com mercial service and the diplomatic service.
 This method of maintaining sev- eral distinct networks has obvious advantages from a security point of view for those operating them, as no one person, even among the direct ing Soviet personnel, would know the names of the Canadians acting as agents in more than one of the networks"
 Gouzenko told the Canadian Commission that there apparently were two parallel Soviet Army in- telligence systems in Canada and added: the same thing was true in the United States. according to the telegram I saw"