The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-31
Sensational testimony Given AS 10 How Sovieis Obtained
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 WASHINGTON July 3l--tR- Laughlin Currie, one-time aide to the late President Roosevelt, and Harry Dexter White. former assist ant Secretary of the Treasury. were named by ex-Soviet Agent Elizabeth T. Bentley today as two from whom the Russians got secret wartime information.
 In a sensation-studded Con- gressional hearing, Miss Bentley ticked off one name after another of government officials she said were sources of political and mill tary' information gathered by the Soviet spy ring she was in.
 Her testimony was under oath to the House Un-American Activities Committee which picked up where a Senate group left off yesterday in hearing the blonde Vassar grad uate's story Startled committee members said they would ask for a special grand jury to look into the question of whether there should be prosecutions.
 duplicates Curric Miss Bentley swore:
 | Currie was not Communist, but he gave us some information, he had inside information on gov ernment policies" It was through Currie, she said, that information reached the Russians that the United States was about to break" the Soviet Code. t"Break' means learn to decipher This would have permitted the United States to , read secret Russian dispatches to the Soviet embassy here Code , breaking" was one of the great est wartime secrets)
 l White was member of what she 5 called tho 'SilxeFlpaster gr0up and 1 gave iflformarloil to MI. 5ifver- | master which was relayed on to . me- aud eventually to the Russians Ii She said she referred to N Gregory Silvermaster and called him a Communist and Russian secret police agent who worked for | the Farm Security Administration at that time. He Is no longer with the government.
 I Others Named | And she named various others. 1 While Miss Bentley was testify Ing to the House Committee Sem ate investigators were questioning William w. Remington, Commerce Department official
 Miss Bentley told the Senators yesterday that Remington was Communist and gave her secret in formation on American plane pro- duction during the war. Remington, under oath, told the Senators he would have left the government long ago except for "a firm conviction in my innocence"
 Remington Testifics |.
 Tn response to questions from members of the Senate Expenditures subcommittee, Remington testified:
 l. That at a time when the FBI was investigating his associa- tion with Miss Bentley he was off, cred a job with the Atomic Energy Commission.
 ] 2. He held q White House job and handled secret data also while under FBI investigation. | g. He resigned Naval Reserve commission in the spring of last year by request, but did not connect the request with the FBI probe.
 It was last spring that he got 1 into his present Commerce De- partment job which involves pre- siding over a committee to pass on exports to Russia.
 Placing or Spies ,i At this point in his testimony. Chairman Ferguson fR-Mich) ask ed Remington. III Russia desired to place a spy in the American government do you know more important spot to put him than ton that committee?"
 Remington said he could think of several thousand other places of more importance. Y The Senate committee had got only about that far with Reming- l ton when it quit until Monday. ! PerI0 Group Revealed l Miss Bentley spoke of two main groups in the government with whom she dealt. She called one the "Silvermaster group" and the other the "Perlo group"
 l She named several former goy- I ernrnent employees as members of the Perlo group. These included: i Allen Rosenberg of the Foreign Economic Administration. ! Donald Wheeler of the Office of l Strategic Services.
 Il Charles Crsmer who she said was employed by both Senators Kilgorc I tD-W Va, and Pepper D-Fla) on the Senate subcommittee on Edu-