The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-27
Soviet Spy Hunt in US. Considered
 Government PlonS
 Communist AffoiES
 Probe in Motion

Washington, Nov. s7 UP -- Government plans to investigate COn1iiiuf1lst activities ifi the UhItet States were headed almost inevlt. ably today toward q spy hunt.
 The record of Communist aetivltj lii the western hemisphere showi two distinct methods Of operation.
 i. Bold public support Of
 Russian foreign policies through
 ayowedly Communist ofgafilzas
 tons and the more numerous
 and more effective Communist
 fronts
 g. Espionage conducted nec-
 essarily in secret through Huss
 sian and native citizens
 Groups Co Open Probes
 The Government is approaching the problem raised by such activ. ties from two directions. President Truman has named presidential commission to report by Feb. 1 oti existing safeguards against dlsioys alty and subversve activities within Government departments.
 The House Committee oil Un. American activities has announced that after the new Republican Cone sress meets, lt will undertake to ex. pose Communists and their syfnpa- thlzefs within the Government. The committee intends, also, to extend It's Investigation generally through the country, with special attention to the charge that Hollywood Is crawling with fellow travellers.
 Mir. Truman's commission and the House committee could well prepare for their Job by learning about the Communist espionage which has been going ot in Canada The do- Ininion government has published e T33-page volume on the subject in the form of royal commission fee port. The commissioners had the stolen documents of Russian Communist deserter on which Co base their inquiry, and one by one they are sending the Canadian con- spirators to jail. The latest sent enced was Capt Gordon Ltnan, a wartime ofilclal of the Canadian 1n- formation Service.
 Against the belief widely held in Che United States that spies and espionage are something reserved for movie thrillers and light fiction, there may be cited pages 85 and S6 in the royal commission report. Page 85 relates that with the assist aflce of two Canadian Communists named Carr and Rose, the military Attache of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa was able to recruit at least 11 Canadian agents or conspirators. The list is headed by Lunan, who already has gone 10 jail
 Agreed on Cover Names
 In conformity with Communist practice, party members and agents usually were given so-called cover- names. Lunan, for instance was known in records of the Communist spy ring as Back. David shugar was called Prometheus. Raymond Boyer was known as the professor. Allan Mum May was Alex. Emma Woi- kin was Nora. Carr and Rose, both leaders of the Canadian Commun- ist Party, each had two cover names because they were very important characters and their names were likely to appear more often in docu. snents than those of the mere agents who were taken into the net
 The net is what the Russian em- oaSsy director of the Canadian con- spiracy called their spy ring. There were several nets but the Canadian as1vaek ioatore had tt,Ro~t,,nt 1,, abling them to investigate only one. The assumption is that the 1T agents discovered, exposed and named by the commissioners could be multiplied many times if the full facts were known.
 For c local Communist or an agent who plunged wholeheaqtedly and without reservation into the Russian espionage project, the Rus sians had a special word. It was nash. Translated freely, nash means The is ours" Espionage has a slang all it's own. A shoemaker, for in- stance, was a forger or procurer of false passports. A shoe was such 6 Sorged instrument.
 AAAC ~ SaAAodAaAAo WCIC llOt StIC only persons involved in the Can- adian expose. The commissioners said that members of the Soviet Union embassy in Ottawa also had been identified as having been &C., tive since l942. when the embassy opened. in directing under-cover espionage in Canada. By coincid- 'ence. the number of Russian embas- sy officials involved also was l7. Were OfIicers in Red Army Top man appears to have been a Col. Zabotin, the military attache, 'bu the list included door guards, 'chauffeurs and interpreters, all of whom proved to be officers in the Red Army despite their relatively Humble embassy assignments The commissioners came to the conclusion that the Russian ann 'baSsador was purposely kept igno- rant of all improper and inadmiss- able activities" in his embassy. In fact, he was not permitted to enter the secret rooms in a special wing on the second embassy floor where the espionage centered.