Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-15
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Analyst Says Orders
From Higher Up
Protected Reds
By Constantine Brown

House Committee on Un-Americar
Activities into Communist infiltra
ton of key positions in the Unites
States Government, and into Rex
espionage activities on behalf o
Russia, may have surprised man!
people. but 1t is old news to top.
ranking Government officials and tt
many members Of Congress ant
newspapermen in Washington.
The spectacular hearings are tn.
offshoot of a Federal grand jury
investigation in New York, in which
some 1876 persons appeared as wit
nesses. More than half of then
would have been indicted If Ameri.
can espionage laws were stronger
than they are today.
Compilation of all the evidence
and testimony presented under oath
to the grand jury, in report like
that issued by the Royal Commits
sion in Canada, would have bareo
the whole story Of Soviet activities
in the United States since 1888 and
would have obviated the hearings
which are now being held by the
House committee. Unfortunately
however, this was not possible, since
the Justice Department Is reported
to have decided against 1t.
Agencies Had Files
The FBI and the intelligence
services of the Army and Navy
have not let the country down
All those agencies have voluminous
files containing names Of thousands
of Americans and foreigners and
substantiated evidence of their
plotting, not only for the forcible
overthrow Of the Government, but
also for the betrayal OF top secrets
of our armed forces to the Red
Army.
The excuse put forth by Henry A
Wallace that these were not treason
able acts, since Russia was our Ally
holds no water. The chiefs of staff
OF our armed forces were fully
aware of that and gave the Russian
general staff officially all the in
formation they believed necessary
to assure perfect cooperation be-
tween the Allied forces.
There were, however, many plans
particularly in the technical de-
velopments of American weapons
which had to be kept secret from
every other nation. The Russians
were aware of this and used their
minions, who had been placed in
high position by the Krem4n, to
obtain them. - - - - - r .. g.
Soviet War Planned
There is evidence that the US. S.
r. was thinking in terms of a war
against the western powers soon
after the west rushed to her rescue
when she was attacked by Adolf
Hitler. For instance, when the So
Wet government was allowed to open
a consulate in Vancouver, Moscow
ordered only two professional con-
suls to that city, according to docu-
ments produced by the former So
Wet official, Igor Gouzenko. The
rest of the staff was packed with
NKVD agents and with professional
spies instructed to do exclusively
espionage work.
The administration in Washing
ton was fully aware of the activities
Of our so-called Allies. The FBI and
service intelligence units presented
important information which should
have thrown at least some suspicion
on the work which was being done
by agents of Russia.
In 1910, when the U. S. S. R. was
still an ally of Germany, the Soviet
government tried to bty important
industrial products in this country
to be used in the manufacture of
war material The chief of the
Eastern European Division in the
State Department-which included
Russia-wrote top-secret memo
randum opposing such sale.
Secret Report Barred
A short time later he was asked
by Constantine Oumansky, then
Soviet Ambassador here, to visit
him. After the usual exchange
about the Washington weather, the
Soviet Ambassador, to the amaze
ment of his visitor. mentioned that
he knew about the adverse top
secret report. Mr.. Oumansky
showed his gold-filled teeth in what
may be described as smile and
added, in essence:
Why don't you work with US?
If you realized how important it is
to help the U. S. S. r., you could be
an ambassador yourself in short
time. But if you continue with
Your present attitude, who knows
what your career may be-"
This conversation was reported
Immediately to the proper officials
in the State Department. Some ID
months later, after We got into the
war, the new Soviet Ambassador
Maxim Litvinoff, told friends" in
the White House that so long as
this "anti-Soviet' official was at
the head of the Eastern European
Division, real diplomatic co-opera-
ton between the U. S. S. r. and
the United States would be difficult
The official was promptly trans
ferred.
Tools in the Pentagon
Soviet agents took advantage of
the great influx of Reserve officers
into the armed forces soon after We
entered the world conflict. A con-
siderable number Of such agents
were commissioned in the Army
ard the Air Force.
FhGe was no trouble placing