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Communists in 1938-just as he
kept At typed copies and sum-
maries of secret State Depart
ment dispatches which he says
he received from Mr.. Hiss.
Mystery Men Identified.
2. Mr.. Chambers identified two
mysterious figures. hitherto desig-
mated in the trial as mfr. x" and
"Mr. Y" described by him as
State Department contacts OF the
prewar Communist apparatus in
Washington.
"Mr. X" he said. was Richard
Post, who, at his suggestion. moved
in 1887 from WPA job to one
with the State Departments For
eign Service Journal. "Mr. Y"
he said, was "a man named
Lowell" whom he had never met
but who had been described to
him as q contact. Neither OF
these men gave him secret papers,
Mr.. Chambers said.
8. Mr.. Murphy read to the jury
three reports on previous state
ments by Mr.. Chambers as to his
knowledge of prewar Communist
activity in Washington. They were
notes taken by Adolph A. Berle.
jr., former Assistant Secretary Of
State, following a conversation
with Mr.. Chambers in 1939-and
two sets of memoranda produced
by Raymond Murphy, State De-
partment security officer (no rela-
ton to the prosecutor), who talked
with Mr.. Chambers in 1945 and
again in 1916.
Contain Little New.
These early statements by Mr..
Chambers, painting a picture Of
the Communist underground set
up in the Government as 1t al
legedly existed in the l930s. con-
tanned little of Importance that
was not covered broadly in Mr..
Chambers initial appearance be-
fore the House Committee on Un-
American Activities on August 3,
1948. Or in other testimony re-
ceived by that group. In their
colorful details, however. they
made interesting reading.
Mr.. Hiss attorney. Claude B.
Cross. had made the point earlier
that. in these statements. Mr..
Chambers did not assert he re-
ceived secret material from Mr..
Hiss. The prosecutors reading
of the full reports bore this out,
but showed Mr.. Chambers had
denounced Mr.. Hiss as the No. 3
man in the prewar Washington
underground.
Duggan Death Recalled.
1t also cast a possible flicker
ing light on the circumstances
leading up to the mysterious death
last winter Of Laurance Duggan,
former State Department official,
who fell from New York hotel
window shortly after his name
was mentioned in the House COM
mittee's spy inquiry.
| At the time, Mr.. Chambers said
Mr.. Duggan had given him no
secret data and was not, in his
direct knowledge" a Commu-
mist, but he added he had felt
it necessary to mention Mr.. Dug
gan's name in 1889 to Mr.. Berle.
Mr.. Berle's notes on that inter-
view were, % fragmentary as to
be almost unmtelligible. But they
did refer to Mr.. Duggan, in a para
graph which seemed to indicate
/ Mr.. Chambers might have limited
the Russians obtained plans for
two American superbattleships in
1887.
Here is what Mr.. Berle wrote:
plans for two superbattle-
ships - secured in 1887 - who
gave Karp ther-in-law Of
Molotov-working with Scott Fer
ris got this released-now: Naval
architect working on 1t. why??
Field was original contact. He in
troduced Duggan to Gompertz-
Duggan relationship was casual
shall excuse?-Where is Hedda
Gompertz-Duggan and Field sup
posed to be both members OF the
party"
Name Deleted.
When this was read to the jury.
Mr.. Duggan's name was deleted
and the letter ~" substituted for
it. The same procedure was fol-
lowed when copies Of the docu-
ment were given reporters. But
through an error Mr.. Duggan's
name remained in one place, and
the news was out before Federal
Judge Henry w. Goddard had
time to express the opinion that
the decent" thing to do was to
preserve Mr.. Duggan's ANONYMITY.
In his interviews with Raymond
Murphy, Mr.. Chambers said Mr..
Hiss was exceeded only in i'm
portance by Harold Ware of the
Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration, and Lee NPressman,
former general counsel of the CIO.
Ware, Mr.. Chambers said. was
head man until he was killed in
an auto accident near Baltimore.
I Mr.. Chambers told the security
officer, the reports showed, that
Mr.. Hiss was an underground cell
Ileader-one of a group picked to
aid the party cause by rising as
thigh as possible in the Govern
ment.
"Alger Hiss was never to make
contacts" according to one of the
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