Evening star., 1949-06-14
Judge Denies
FBI Records 10
Hiss Defense
Reports Are Consisten,
With Testimony by
Chambers, He Says
By Newbold koyes, Jr.,
and Robert K. WoIsh
Stof SfoH Correspondent

SbS etSSStt I'VE
Star stoH cerrsspondsnts
NEW YORK. June 14.-Federal
Judge Samuel M. kaufman today
denied a request by counsel for
Alger Hiss to examine FBI reports
of statements made to agents by
Whitaker Chambers in 1912 and
1945 and again last December.
Attorneys for Mr.. Hiss. who Is
on trial charged with perjury be-
fore a Federal grand jury here
last December, have been attempt
ing for several days to get look
at the two FBI reports dated May
IA, 1912, and June 26, 1945, con-
tanning unsigned statements by
Mr.. Chambers, and also three
signed statements he made to FBI
agents last December 3, z and g.
Judge Kaufman told the jury
that he examined all the FBl
material and found that the
Chambers statements of last De-
cember to the FBI were consistent
with the testimony Mr.. Chambers
gave at the current trial concern
ing State Department secret doc
uments he said he got from Mr..
Hiss, former State Department
officer, in 1887 and 1888.
State Department Man Called.
IN the statements of 1912 and
1945, however, Mr.. Chambers
made no such charge against Mr..
Hiss to the FBI, Judge kaufman
disclosed. At that time. accord
ing to the FBI reports as sum-
married. by the judge. Mr., Cham
bers told the FBI only that Mr..
Hiss was an active member OF a
Communist underground group In
Washington in the 1930s.
AS the Government sought to
clinch the circumstantial side OF
its perjury case against Mr.. Hiss
the jury of 10 men and two wom-
en- was lectured this morning on
the intricacies OF the State De-
partment code and filing system
Walter H. Anderson, chief Of the
Records Branch Of the depart
ment's Division of Communities
tions and Records. identified
secret Government kilograms
which, according to the prosecu-
ton, Mr.. Hiss copied, summar-
lied or had photographed In 1887
and 1888, 50 that he might turn
over their contents to Mr.. Cham
bers for transmission TO Russian
agents.
Enlarged Photos Studied.
AS MIR. Anderson testified this
morning, the jury studied en-
larged photographs of secret doc
uments, as allegedly received by
MIR. Chambers in the form Of
copies or summaries of the orig
inal papers. The blowups were
mounted on a makeshift stage
erected beside the bench occupied
by Judge kaufman.
The text of nearly all the docu-
ments under discussion today al
ready has been published. The
first four identified by Mr.. Andar-
son were ones which had been
digested by some one in short
handwritten memoranda.
The Government says the hand
writing is that Of Mr.. Hiss, and
the defendant has admitted il
looks like his and may well be.
These four documents are:
/. A cable from Moscow about
a man named Rubens, who had
been employed at the American
consulate in Riga, Latvia.
2. A cable from Paris about 80
French airplanes of the bomber
pursuit type "Potez-63," which
had been shipped to the Chinese
Army.
Gable From London.
8. A cable from London about
the plans of Lord Chatfield. Brit
ish First Lord of Admiralty, for
construction of cruisers and bat
tleships.
4, A cable, from Shanghai con-
cerning the disposition of about
10000 Chinese troops which had
Just arrived on the southern front
there.
All the cables were dated in the
spring of 1888.
In the case of the Paris message
the handwritten digest introduced
In evidence dealt with only a small
portion of a very long telegram
which included speculation on the
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