Evening star., 1949-06-17
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price yesterday In the testimony
Of Henry Julian Wadleigh. an
other former State Department
employe. that he turned secre,
State Department papers over tc
a Russian spy ring.
Mr.. wadleigh. now unemployed
and living In Vienna. Va. ad-
United under direct examination
yesterday that between 1886 and
1888. he occasionally gave State
Department papers to Mr.. Cham
bers. and many more to q man
named David Carpenter. These
were all originals and he returned
them to his office In the Trade
Agreements section after they had
been photographed by Communist
spies. he asserted.
| He did all this, he explained
because he sympathized with CON-
munism at the time. although hi
never belonged to the Commu-
mist Party.
This was the first public decla-
ration Of Mr.. Wadleigh on these
questions. He appeared before
the grand jury last December. but
earlier refused to testify before
the House Committee on Un-
American Activities on grounds OF
possible standardization. He
presumably Is immune to prose-
cution because the statute of lin
itations has run out.
1 Speaking calmly and with q
British accent-he holds degrees
from oxford and the University
of Eondon-the former Govern
ment economist declared that 50
far as he could recall he never
gave Mr.. Chambers any Of the
documents In evidence In this
trial. Those are the ones Mr..
Chambers claims he got from Mr..
Hiss.
Gave Chambers Originals.
The only documents Mr.. Wad-
leigh said he turned over to Mr..
Chambers were originals that
came across his desk. In no In
stance did he provide copies or
summaries or obtain documents
from other Offices. he maintained.
The bulk of material Mr.. Cham
bers testified he received from Mr..
Hiss consisted Of handwritten or
typewriter copies. paraphrases or
digests of department cables and
similar messages or memoranda.
Mr.. Chambers also produced
microfilms containing reproduc-
tions Of interofiice memoranda
within the State Department. He
said he likewise got that material
from Mr.. Hiss. ~,
Shown enlorgements Of. those
microfilms and asked by Assistant
United States Attorney Thomas r.
Murphy If he had ever given the
originals to Mr.. Chambers or any
one else, Mr.. Wadleigh made re-
sponses of this kind:
There is a possibility I may
have handed them to Mr.. Cham
bers but ] think it is most i'm
probable that I did. - I have no
recollection of having seen these
documents. To the best of my
recollection die. not see them.
's~ These documents. In general.
are not the type that came to my
desk. ! could not have
handed this one to Mr.. Chambers.
have no recollection Of
having handed this one to Mr..
Chambers and I think it extreme
ly unlikely that I did,"
"Rich" Find.
In one instance. when he read
a microfllm excerpt of q State
Department document in the top
secret D-code and relating to pos
sible increased Russian aid to
China In 1888, Mr.. Wadleigh COM
mented: "This document would
have been an unusually rich find
If I had seen 1t at the time and !
would have remembered 1t to this
day."
A lanky 45-year-old New Eng
land born son Of an Episcopalian
minister, he said he lived In Eu-
rope from the age Of 3 to 25. He
squinted through large spectacles
and his thick black hair stood
straight up from his forehead.
From 1880 until the end Of 1914
he was in Government service. in
cluding State Department employ
ment from 1896 to 1943. as well as
the Federal Farm Board. Agri-
culture Department. and Foreign
Economic Administration. For q
year he was with UNRRA and
from 1916 to last December he
worked for an Italian government
economic office In Washington.
He went to Turkey In 1888 to
help negotiate q trade agreement
and during the war he was sent
to Italy, he said.
Makes Direct Reply.
When he had told about his
communist sympathies In the
1930s, he was asked point-blank
by Mr.. Murphy:
did you ever take Government