Evening star., 1948-12-31
New Indictments Held Possible
By Spy Probers in Final Report

mine, Col. Bykov had no omcla
position in this country and was al
Illegally present alien spy"
The committee said 1t had evidence
Of "the manner in which Col. Byko'
approached the sources of informa
tion within the Government and ar
ranged, in cooperation with Cham
bers, for the furnishing of this infor.
nation which Chambers swears wal
sent to the Soviet Union"
Key Industry Information.
Mr.. Chambers testified, according
to the report, that between 1882 ane
1898, he got documents from tn.
State Department. Bureau Of Stand.
ards, Aberdeen Proving Ground anc
certain information from the Navy
The ring with which he worked, the
report added, also got vital informa.
ton from key United States in.
dustries.
The committee concentrated or
the State Department leaks in its
report. It has been focusing or
the State Department since early
December, when it subpoenaed Mr.
Chambers to produce any documents
in his possession and he led them to
a pumpkin on his Westminster Md
farm.
The rest of the documents OBJ
tanned by the committee were pro-
duced by Mr.. Chambers during q
pre-trial deposition hearing In Balti-
more in connection with libel and
SANDER suit brought by Mr.. Hiss
against Mr.. Chambers.
The committee said the most i'm
portant of the 1878 pumpkin
papers" came from Mr.. Sayres Of
fee. Four persons, said the COM
mittee, had access to these docu-
ments, once they reached Mr..
Sayre's office-Mr. Sayre, Mr.. Hiss,
Miss Eunice Lincoln, administrative
assistant, and Miss Anna Belle New
comb, secretary and stenographer.
When Mr.. Sayre and the two
women were questioned by the COM
mittee, the report stated, they "em-
phatically denied under oath that
they had ever turned any documents
over to any unauthorized person. -
Summary of Testimony.
The committee gave this sum-
mary of their testimony:
The microfilmed documents IL,
question, which were secret and
confidential for the Secretary of
State only and which were sent in
the highest code, were delivered to
Mr.. Sayre's Office from the code
room of the State Department in a
black metal box. When this box
arrived at Mr.. Sayre's office, it was
opened by Miss Lincoln with a key
provided for the Office by the code
room for that purpose only.
When Mr.. Sayre's office had
finished studying the documents,
which sometimes took several days,
the documents were placed back in
the black box, locked by Miss Lin
coin, and returned to the code
room by code-room messengers,
where, with a duplicate key, the box
was reopened and the contents filed
in the code rooms guarded record
Office.
THE testimony Of Mr.. Sayre and
Miss Lincoln brought out that it
was practice for both Mr.. sayre
and Mr.. Hiss to take documents in
their briefcase from the Department
Of State at night to their homes
for study. Miss Newcomb and Miss
both testified that they had
never taken any documents them
selves from the State Department.
Examined Documents.
when Miss Lincoln and Miss
Newcomb were shown photostatic
copies of the typewriter and hand
written documents which were sub
mitted by Whitaker Chambers at
the pre-trial examination in Balti-
more, both testified that these docu.
ments were not typed in the State
and that the character
and form of the documents were
such that they could not have been
prepared for the purpose of trans
mitting information in the regular
course of State Department business.
"Mr. Sayre testified that the hand
written memos had not been pre-
pared by Mr.. Hiss for him or under
his instruction. Mr.. Sayre also testi-
fed that he could see no reason why
the typewriter documents could or
would have been prepared in the
regular course of State Department
business. He denied that these typed
or handwritten documents were
brought to his attention"
The committee said the hand
written memos we're in Mr.. Hiss
writing. The report quoted Miss
Newcomb as testifying that they
were not of the type which Mr..
Hiss would prepare in connection
with his regular duties in Mr.. Sayres
Office.
The committee combined its gen.
eral and specific discussion Of espi-
onage with a review of the Hiss
Chambers controversy, which first
erupted last August when Mr.. Cham
bers called Mr.. Hiss member Of
the Communist underground elite"
and Mr.. Hiss denied 1t.
The report also harked back to
the summer spy hearings to draw
the first link between the personal
tiles mentioned by Mr.. Chambers
and those named by Elizabeth Bent
ley, another avowed ex-Communist
courier.
Functioned After Break.
On that score, the committee
commented:
THE evidence clearly indicates
that the Chambers apparatus con-
tinued to function for at least one
year after he broke away. and 1t has
now been clearly established that
at least four of the individuals who
were acting in the Chambers ap-
paratus Eere also acting as late as
1945 in the parallel apparatus ex-
posed to this committee by Eliza
beth Bentley in the fall of l948.
I'VE have no evidence to indicate
that the operations Of this second