Evening star., 1948-08-29
Groups Identified
BY Miss Bentley

faIHabeln Il. Bentley, in teStimOn,
belore the committee, identified
Two Communist espionage eroltp
composed OF Government emplove
and Government officials in Wash
ngton, u. G. Information suppliet
from the files OF the Federal Gov
erninent by members of these es
plonage groups was conveyed 4
New York City and turned over t,
agents OF the Soviet Union, accord
ing to Miss Bentley. The mem
bers Of these groups, as identified
by Miss Bentley. and their employ
ing Federal agencies for the periot
concerned in the testimony, are a.
follows:
Silvermaster Group.
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster,
director of Labor Division, Farm
Security Administration; detail
ed at one time to Board of Eco
nomic Welfare.
Solomon Adler, Treasury De-
partment; agent in China.
Norman Bursler, Department
Of Justice.
Frank Coe. assistant director,
Division of Monetary Research,
Treasury: special assistant TO
United States Ambassador in
London; assistant to the eXecu-
tive director, Board of Economic
Welfare and successor agencies;
assistant administrator, Foreign
Economic Administration.
Lauchlin Currie. adminiStra-
tive assistant to the President;
deputy administrator OF Foreign
Economic Administration.
Bella Gold tknOWn to Miss
Bentley as William Gold, assist
ant head of Division of Program
Surveys. Bureau OF Agricultural
Economics, Agriculture Depart
ment; Senate Committee ON War
Mobilization: Office OF Economic
Programs in Foreign Economic
Administration.
Mrs. Bella tSonia) Gold. re-
1S AVN l1ouSS OSlCNL
Committee on Interstate Migra-
ton: labor-market analyst. Bu-
reau OF Employment Security;
Division of Monetary Research
Treasury.
Abraham George Silverman.
director, Bureau Of Research and
Information Services, United
States Railroad Retirement
Board; economic adviser and
chief of analysts and plans, As
sistant Chief of Staff. Materiel
and Services, Air Forces.
William Taylor, Treasury De-
partment.
William Ludwig Ullmann, Di-
vision of Monterey Research,
Treasury; Materiel and Service
Division. Air Corps Headquar-
ters, Pentagon.
PerlO Group.
Victor Perlo, head of branch in
Research Section. Office of Price
Administration War Production
Board; Monterey r e I c h,
Treasury.
Edward j. Fitzgerald, War
Production Board.
Harold Glasser, Treasury De-
partment, loaned to govern
ment of Ecuador; loaned to War
Production Board: adviser on
North African Committee in AL
giers. North Africa.
Charles Kramer tKrevitSky),
National Labor Relations Board:
Office of Price Administration;
economist with Senate Subcom-
mittee OH War Mobiliza tion.
Solomon LeShinSky, United
Nations Relief and Rehabilita-
ton Administration.
Harry Magdoff, Statistical Di-
vision Of War Production Board
and Office of Emergency Man
agement; Bureau of Research
and Statistics, WIPE; Tools Di-
vision, WPB: Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce.
Allan Rosenberg. Foreign Eco
nomic Administration.
Donald Niven Wheeler, Office
OF Strategic Services.
Miss Bentley also testified that
Irving Kaplan. an employe of the
War Production Board at the time
was associated with both groups
paying dues to the Perlo group and
submitting information to the Sill
vermaster group. She identified the
late Harry Dexter White. then As
sistant Secretary Of the Treasury, a.