Evening star., 1948-09-28


Committee that Hiskey informed
him that Adams was Soviet agent:
Some of Chapin's testimony follows:
"Mr. Stripping. Before you met
Arthur Adams, did you have any
conversation with Clarence Hiskey
regarding Arthur Adams?
Mr.. Chaplin. Yes.
"Mr. Stripping. Would you give
the committee the details of that
conversation?
Mr.. Chaplin. AS well as I can re-
member Well, I was told that
Arthur Adams was a Russian Agent,
and told by Hiskey, that is
Mr.. Stripping. When did he tell
you that?
Mr.. Chaplin. That was around
the spring Oft must have been
the spring Of 1914, yes.
Mr.. Stripping. Spring of 1914.
All right, what else did he tell you?
Mr.. Chaplin. have to think now
he asked me whether I would be
willing to meet Arthur Adams at
some future time.
Mr.. Stripping. What was your
reply?
Mr.. Chaplin. After thinking
about it while. said yes, would
be willing to meet him.
"Mr. STRIPPING. Why did Hiskey
want you to meet Arthur Adams? !?
"Mr. Chaplin. Well, to the best of
my recollection, 1t would be to dis
cuss whether or not I would hand
out any information to Adams on
my work.
Mr.. Stripping. On your work?
"Mr. Chaplin. That is vague, I
mean the gist of it was that.
'Mr. STRIPPING. Was any arrange
ment made at that time between
you and Hiskey for you to meet
Adams?
"Mr. Chaplin. No definite ar
rangement, that is-well, 1t was
arranged that would meet Adams
sometime probably, no date or any
thing like>that.
Mr.. STRIPPING. Did you give
Hiskey a key?
"Mr. Chaplin. Yes. I did.
"Mr. Stripping. Explain the cir
cumstances and the details of the
key arrangement to the Committee.
Mr.. Chaplin. The. key would be
a means of my knowing II Adams
ever did get in touch with me
would be a means for my knowing
that that was Arthur Adams, or the
man that Hiskey had spoken to me
about.
., "Mr. STRIPPING. You gave Clarence
Hiskey key. Do you recall what
kind Of key it was? What it was
a key to?
"Mr. Chaplin. 1t was an ordinary
key. I think it was key to the
basement or our apartment or some
thing or other. 1t was an extra key
that l had.
"Mr. Stripping. But the key was
to serve as a so-called instrument
Of identity, issthat right?
"Mr. Chaplin. Yes.
"Mr. STRIPPING. Did you ever see
Arthur Adams?
Called After Telephoning.
"Mr. Chaplin. Yes. He phoned.
and then came around to our apart
ment sometime after that, and he
did not come into our apartment
actually, he came downstairs, and I
went out and answered the door,
bell, and went down to meet him,
and he gave me the key, and be-
lieve I asked him whether he would
come up or not, and he did not,
and suggested that we meet in a
hotel room or something like that.
"Mr. Stripping. Did he suggest
that you come to his hotel room?
"Mr. Chaplin. Well, he must have
because that is where I went, I do
not know
'Mr. Stripping. Yes, where did
you go with him?
''Mr. Chaplin. This was another
night now, I went to the Stevens
Hotel, I think 1t was.
"Mr. STRIPPING. All right, tell the
committee what transpired at the
hotel.
"Mr. Chaplin Well, I went when
Adams was there in the room that
he told me he would be in. and he
suggested that he would like to-
this again, I am trying to give the
essence Of it; I honestly do not
remember the details-the essence
of it was that he would like to have
me give him information on my
work.
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'Mr Stripping. Yes. How long
were you in his room?
Mr.. Chaplin. Oh, I would guess
an hour or so.
Note: (Chapin in his testimony
said that he did not furnish any