Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Consul Asks Police
To Produce Man
Who Talked to FIJI
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Aug. 9.-New
York police at the request of the
Soviet Consulate asked New Jer-
|sey police today to produce a
Russian-born school teacher who
told his story to the FB1 yes
terday.
The teacher, Michael Ivanovitch
Samarin, 40, and his wife and three
children are at Rova Farm, operated
by a White Russian (anti-Commu-
nist group near Cassvllle, N. j.,
the consulate told police.
New Jersey State Police said, how
ever, that they had checked the
farm and found no trace of Mr..
Samarin or members of his family.
The House Committee on IN
American Activities has expressed
an interest in Mr. Samarin. His
whereabouts had been cloaked in
secrecy after he obtained a volun-
tary interview with the FBI yes
terday.
The police message sent to State
police headquarters in Toms River,
N. j., quoted the Russian consulate
as saying it would prosecute If the
Samarin family was detained at the
farm against its will.
Will Talk to FBI.
Deputy Chief Police Inspector
Edward Mullins conferred As min
utes with Soviet Consul General
Jacob M. Lomakin on the Samarin
case.
The police officer said 1--WE are
now going to check every person
and thing connected with the
Samarin case" He said he planned
to talk to the FBI about it.
Soviet officials have been seeking
to return the teacher to his native
land. Mr.. Samarin came here to
teach in a school for children OF
Russian members OF the United
Nations delegation.
FBI officials declined yesterday
to discuss the nature OF their talks
with Mr.. Samarin but they said ne
was 1lOt AL CuSUOOy.
Told that the House un-Amerlcan
Activities Committee in Washing
ton-which now Is engaged in prob
ing Communist espionage operations
to talk to Mr.. Samarin, an
F.BI. spokesman said:
It am sure he can be found II
he is wanted"
Woman Teacher Resting"
Meanwhile, another Russian
school teacher, Mrs. Oksana Step
anovna Kosenkina, who became the
center of a melodramatic tug OF
war between Soviet officials and
White Russian group Saturday, was
reported resting at the Soviet
Consulate here.
Soviet officials said Mrs. Kosen-
kina-whom the House committee
also would like to question-had
been rescued" from a White Rus
sian resort at Valley Cottage, Rock
land County, N. Y.
officials at the Valley Cottage re-
sort said the woman had returned
to New York because she was too
"terrorized" to refuse. Both she
and Mr.. Samarin had been sched-
uled to return to Russia last month
on the Soviet liner Pobeda.
In Mrs. Kosenkinas presence,
Russian consulate officials said at
news conference Saturday that
she had been drugged and kid
mapped by White Russians and been
held captive at the farm since
July 30.
Consulate spokesman said the
White Russians object was to pre-
vent her return to Russia, sched-
uled for the day after the alleged
abduction.
Mr.. Lomakin told Of 'rescuing"
Mrs. Kosenkina from the farm
Saturday after battling about a
dozen White Russian bandits"
Countess Daughter of Novelist.
Countess Alexandra Tolstoy. who
operates the farm about 80 miles
north of New York City as a re-
treat for displaced Russians, called
Mr.. Lomakin's story a "lot OF ba-
loney."
The countess, youngest daughter
of the late Novelist Leo Tolstoy,
said Mrs. Kosenkina sought refuse
at the farm because "she believed
she was going to be shot" The
countess said the teacher returned
to New York City with Mr.. Lomakin
only because she was "terrofized."
Mrs. Kosenkina came to the Unit
ed States from her native Russia
two years ago to teach at a school
operated by the Soviet government
for children of its diplomats in the
New York area. Mr.. Samarin also
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