Evening star., 1947-07-22
All Soviet Aides
.AreHeretoSpy,
House Unit Told
Kruvchenko Testifies
Sedov Was Superior
OF Ambassador
EISLER CHOSE members of gov
erning body of U. S. Reds, court
is told. Page Az
this year as Congress nears end.
Page B-l
By the Associated Press


Victor Kravchenko told Con-
gress today that every response
BILE representative of the Soviet
government in the United States
may be regarded as an economi-
cal or political spy"
Mr.. Kravchenko, author of Il
Chose Freedom" and a former Of
fetal of the Soviet Purchasing Com
mission in New York, testified be-
fore the House Committee on Un-
American Activities.
He said that Mr.. Sedov, who was
deputy chairman of the purchasing
commission, actually was superior
to the Russian Ambassador from
the Communist Party point of view.
Andrei Gromyko, now represent
ing Russia in the United Nations.
was Ambassador at the time, Mr..
Kravchenko said.
The one-time Russian Army Of
ficer described Sedov as the main
personality representing the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
in the United States"
Renounced Communism.
He said no decisions could be
made without Sedov's participation,
adding that when secret conferences
were held at the purchasing COM
mission, Sedov presided rather than
the general who was head Of the
agency.
Mr.. Kravchenko later broke with
the Russian government, renounced
communism and told why in his
book.
Robert E. Stripping, chief investi-
gator for the committee, asked Mr..
Kravchenko for information on &C
tual assignments to spy work made
by the Communist Party in this
country.
In general the witness said, no
person holding a position in con-
nection with economic affairs ar
rives here from Russia without a
specific assignment with reference
to collection of secret documents"
Then he went on to say that every
responsible Soviet representative
here may be regarded as a spy.
Photographs Forbidden.
Dressed in a neat. powder blue
suit, Mr.. Kravchenko testified chief
ly through an Interpreter, DR.. Vladi-
mir Gsovski, chief of the foreign law
section of the Library Of Congress.
Both men appeared before the COM
mittee under oath.
Photographs were forbidden. Rep
resentative Mundt, Republican Of
South Dakota explained that Mr..
Kravchenko may be in consider
able danger" because Of his willing
ness to testify.
Mr.. Mundt and Committee Chair
man Thomas said the witness even
requested that no old picture from
files be published.
Mr.. Kravchenko said metallur-
gicsl engineer named Khimushkin.
who worked in the Purchasing Com
mission, actually was q doctor of
technical science and a university
professor who collected enormous
confidential material concerning the
American aviation industry"
The witness said he had seen this
material personally, that it con-
tanned various secret documents,
photographs, bluepr1nts and notes,
and that it was sent to Moscow by
plane.
Data on Subs Collected.
Information was gathered similar
ly, he said, regarding American sub
marines. He offered to name this
person privately to the committee.
Mr.. Kravchenko told the commit
tee he was born in Russia in 1905,
served as chief engineer or director
of various plants in Russia and dur
ing the war was chief of the DEPART
ment of engineering armament at
tached to the government of the
Russian Soviet Federalist Republic.
AS early as 1888, Mr.. Kravchenko
said, he was becoming disappointed
with the Russian government and
it's practices.
ne Sdlu VIC COtACI SONCAAAAlC1V
was two-faced With reference to its
own people and with regard to its
wartime allies; and still is two-faced
now when new world Is in crea-
ton.
Mr.. Kravchenko discounted any
idea that the Russian government
may be scrapped by the Russian
people.
In one plant he headed, Mr.. Krav-
chenko said, there once were 27,000
workers and 100 Cossack guards.
Later, he said, the plant had 10000
workers and over 1000 guards with
automatic rifles and dogs
The only weapons of the workers,
he testified, were the chains Of
tLair nu,,, cla1yorv adding that