Evening star., 1949-06-01

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Three documents introduced
into epidence in the Judith
CopIon trial today described
three persons as potential can
didates for espionage seruice.
The document on Alfred Boyrf-
ton Stevenson Uas dated
"13fl9." The others mere not
dated. The documents read as
folloins::
. Alfred Boynton Stevenson.
I FIRST met Steve" as he Il
known. in the summer Of ls4t
when we both attended q class In
international Organization" al
the graduate school Of American
University In Washington.
Steve is about 20 years Of age
an American by birth. and comes
from Fl Paso. Tex. At the present
time he is working at the sigma.
Corps in Arlington, Va. He has q
P-3 or PA rating; ! do not know
the nature of his work since he Il
most secretive on the point; he die
tell me several months ago thoust
that he had changed the type OF
work he was doing. Steven came
to Washington during the war and
I believe, has been working since
first as a GI and then as a civilian
at the Signal Corps. Previously, he
held some sort Of civil service job
In Texas or Arkansas, and prio,
to that, I think, taught school
having received an MA In English
literature from some Southern US
university.
I would characterize Steve q.
pro- Communist, albeit a bit of 9
"wishy-washy" idealist, and ,po.
litically naive. For example. in 9
conversation I had with him q few
days ago. he mentioned some peo-
pie that he'd met in New Yori
apparently Communists). HI
told me that. while he found him
self agreeing with these people
sympathetically, he could not &C.
cept all of their realistic" ap.
proach. He mentioned, though
that when he met such people, a.
q group. he tended to agree witt
them 100 per cent in their pres.
ence. largely because they were
usually so shocked finding some
one so liberal" from the pro-
verbal reactionary State of Texas
that he seemed to want them te
be sure that he was one of them
Il might add, as an aside, thai
until this very recent converse.
ton with him. I'd never heard him
express such qualifications to hi.
previously seemly more mature
viewS.)
I do not know Of any Of his
political Affiliations. know hi
is q member Of the American
Veterans Committee and that fol
. while he associated. and may
still associate, with various per-
sons connected with Community
Education. Inc, an racial
cultural" center in Washington.
1t was my vague impression that
Community Ed was a pro-Com-
organization. Recently
read in a bureau report where one
informant characterized the group
as pro-Communist. but another
characterized it as Socialist. and
one of its leaders. David Campbell
as a Trotskyite. Steve also at
tended at least one meeting q
year or so ago of the Washington
Book Shop (subversive listing
which was on the subject of Pal
estine and about which he was
very enthusiastic; and was i'm
pressed with the speaker.
Steve's closest friend and for
mer roommate in Washington waa
Floyd Albert, who also worked al
the Signal Corps until he returned
to New York last summer. He, Is
working at present for some
agency of the New York State
Floyd graduated
from Brooklyn College and was
friendly with several people
(mainly progressives) whom I'd
been friendly with during college
days. Floyd impressed me al
being more politically mature
than Steve. although I do not
know Of any previous or present
political afflliations.
As for Steve's personality-he
is seemingly sincere, intelligent
good-natured sort Of person. On
the negative side. he is quite shy
inclined to boring, tedious dis
on obscure points. and
has q general awkwardness. social
and otherwise, like that Of an
When I was attend
ing American University tunti
February, 1948), I saw Steve about
once every two or three weeks
since then I've seen him infre-
With respect to his family back
ground-his father. now dead. was
a Protestant minister; his mother
school In Ef Paso; he has
an older sister who Is married
and an older brother, Robert Stew
enSon. Robert Is a pianist and
composer and is now teaching ct
the Westminster Choir College In
Princeton. N. j. About q year or
more ago. Robert gave . concert
IN New York City which included
his own works, one OF which.
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