Evening star., 1949-06-13

proved anticlimactic after the SEN
sational disclosures of last week
when the super secret documents
taken from FB1 files were intro
duced into evidence
When the crowded courtroom
echoed with laughter after Agent
Lamphere testified that he had
attended the University OF Idaho
at Moscow, Idaho, Judge Reeves
sternly called for order and ad-
monished the spectators: 1t is
your duty TO behave yourselves.
In his ross-examination Of Mr.
Lamphere, Mr Palmer reiterated
the charge he has made several
times before that Mr. Gubitchev
was counter-espionage agent
employed by the Justice Depart
ment and assigned TO report on
the inner operations OF the Soviet
delegation to the United Nations
Gubitchev was employed as a con-
struction engineer by the United
Nations.
Hoover Has No Comment.
The FBI agent said he had no
information which would enable
him to say OF his own knowledge
that Gubitchev was or was not
counter-espionage agent.
FBI Chief Hoover met the criti-
cisms Of his investigators in con-
nection with the revealing Of the
secret domuments at the trial with
stony silence, maintaining through
an aide that he had no comment
on anything coming out OF the
Coplon trial
Il do not choose to accept no
comment for an answer" retorted
DIR. Condor in an angry statement
following up his demands for q
personal apology to Mrs. Condor
from the FB1 chief.
Or. Condor said that under FB1
procedure gossip. rumor and
hearsay are gathered from wit
nesses Of unknown integrity or
veracity - witnesses who, more
over, are never asked to face those
whom they slander and whose
very identities are kept secret"
Finds Citizens Endangered.
DR.. Condon's statement con-
tinued:
What this means is simply
this: That any American can be
slandered, his name ruined, his
career blasted by any other person
who chooses to relay malicious
gossip to the FBI."
If the FBI is after facts, DR..
Condor said. it should have ques-
toned him and his wife. This
they have not DONE" he declared.
The report mentioning Mrs.
Condor said she arranged a con-
tact between Mr.. Kent, who COM
mitted suicide June 4, and George
Dimitrov Sotirov, whom the FBI
identified as a suspected Soviet
espionage agent.
DR.. Condor said the conference
at which Mrs. Condor talked to
Sotirov was held a year before the
report In the FB1 files. which was
dated December, 1948.
Criticizes Lack of Evaluation.
Yet the FB1 states that this
report is not evaluated," DR.. Con-
don went on. 1T does no good to
say that the FBI never expected to
make this report public. Either
one or two things is true:
Il. The FBI regarded this as a
matter of no Importance. in which
case the report should not be In
the files, or should be clearly in
dicated as 'evaluated' as being of
no value at all. Or,
20. The FBI regards this as a
matter of some Importance, in
which case they have scandalously
neglected their duty in having
only an 'unevaluated' report 19
months after the event."
Mr.. Kent, who was born in Rus
sia, formerly was Washington ex-
port manager for the Addresso-
graph-Multigraph Corp.
Mrs. Kent said her husband was
always a loyal American, whose
business called for him to have
contact with foreigners.
Dealt With Embassies.
He dealt with foreign embas-
sizes all the time" Mrs. Kent said.
There was nothing private about
these things-it was his business" :"
Mrs. Kent said her husband was
cleared by the Justice Department
for a special agents job in 1888,
but declined the appointment
when he was offered another posi-
ton.
D. E. White. vice president of
the firm which employed Mr.. Kent,
also came to the dead mans
defense. Mr.. Kent probably was
| trying to sell equipment when he
contacted the Bulgarian named in
the FB1 report, Mr.. White said.
"A Bulgarian sale to us Is as good
as an English one. Mr.. White as
serted,
Mrs. Aleksander. whom conn
dental FBI informants reported
was a frequent visitor to the Soviet
Consulate in New York between
1943 and 1916. announced from
New York that she denied al
slanderouS allegations about
me-"
Wife Of Bunche Assistant.
Mrs. Aleksander, q writer who il
the wife Of DR.. Bozidhar Alex.
sander, one of DR.. Ralph Bunche's