Evening star., 1949-07-22
0GPU Began Efforts
To Plant Agents Here
In y, Probers Told
BY the Assoeioted Press

BY the Associated Press
Testimony Of former Red that
the Soviet secret police began try
ing 20 years ago to sneak agents
into State Department jobs was
made public today by House in
vestigators.
Paul Crouch, who told of II
active years in the Communist
Party. gave the testimony to the
House Committee on Un-Amer-
lean Activities in May. The COM
mittee released part of it today
but withheld some "for the time
being in the interest of national
security"
Now a mechanical department
employe of the Miami Daily News,
Mr.. Crouch identified dozens of
former associates as Communists
people all over the country, in
schools. unions. business and all
sorts of occupations.
He told of going to Moscow to
consult top officials of the Red
Army general staff and of getting
orders for inflltrating Communists
into the American Army"
Some Testimony Leaks Out.
Later, he said, he was active in
trying to infiltrate the radiation
laboratory and "all scientific re-
search at the University of Cali
fornia.'
Some of his testimony had
leaked out before and some COW
cred things Mr.. Crouch had in
cluded in a series of published
articles.
He said he was a Communist
from 1925 to 1912 and got out
when he came to realize that he
and other Reds were victims of a
gigantic fraud"
1t was in 1929, Mr.. Crouch said,
that he was let in on desires of
the Russian secret police to plant
people in. the State Department
and other Government agencies
He said he was told by a
Nicholas Dozenberg that "the
heads of the OGPU (secret police)
in the United States wished to
see me-" Mr.. Crouch said Dozen
berg at one time was national
organizational secretary of the
Communist Party but dropped out
Of official party work to take On
a confidential assignment for the
OGPU.
introduced to Russians.
with the greatest precautions,
and in roundabout ways" Mr..
Crouch related. II was escorted by
Dozenberg to fashionable West
Side apartment near Central
Park, in New York. where I was
introduced to a tall Russion who
spoke broken English.
This, Mr.. Dozenberg said, was
the head of the OGPU in this
country. .e
THE Russian was interested
primarily in the question of any
YCL CYoung Communist League)
members in the State Department
or other branches of the Govern
ment, the possibilities Of placing
members in such jobs, urging that
all with any possibility should ap-
ply for Government jobs in Wash
ington, and he also indicated the
greatest interest in obtaining
blank American passport books.
Il told him we were not in posi-
ton to supply them. He asked
that If we were at any time, to
contact him through Dozenberg." f."
Mr.. Crouch told the committee
about a person he said joined the
party after holding very high
positions in the Government" The
testimony went on:
Before entering the Communist
Party he was assistant to name
delete6 as (-) administrator
and held various other positions
of trust. He has many friends
among Government officials from
whom, If he is still in the party,
he might be able to obtain infor-
nation of importance to national
defense"
He said he doesn't know whether
this person still is a Red.
Asked to identify some of the
people involved in infiltration at
tempts at the University of Cali
fornia, where part of the atom
bomb project was handled, Mr..
Crouch mentioned Kenneth May.
He said May is the son of a uni
versity dean and was a member