Evening star., 1950-02-07
BI Sill Seeks Full Data
On Fuchs Spy Activity,
Lawmakers Reveal
By Cecil HoIIond

Members Of Congress said today
the shadowy and tangled web of
the Fuchs spy case-described by
one as "the most incredible story
I've ever heard to be
unfolded.
The lawmakers expressed shock
and concern at what they have
learned from FBI Director j. Ed
gar Hoover about DR.. Klaus Fuchs,
the British scientist under arrest
in London, and the atomic and
hydrogen bomb secrets he is be-
lieved to have given Russia.
From what they revealed it was
indicated that even the FBI and
its far-flung corps of investigators
have been unable thus far to de-
termine how DR.. Fuchs operated
so successfully and how he was
able to pass on to Soviet agents
this country's most vital atomic
secrets.
They left no doubt, however.
OF their belief that other persons
were involved, perhaps some still
at large in the United States.
U. S., British Pursuing Case.
Chairman McMahon of the
Joint Congressional Atomic En-
ergy Committee, said the F7BI and
British intelligence services are
pursuing further ramifications"
OF the case. He made the state
ment after the committee received
a report yesterday from Mr..
Hoover.
Asked if that meant other per-
sons were involved and may be
arrested, Senator McMahon re-
piled graphically:
Sometimes common sense die
tates that arrests should not be
made immediately"
Other members of the commit
tee reported that Britain legal
machinery is delaying the FBI
investigation. They said Mr..
Hoover told them that thus far
the FBI has been unable to OBJ
tain from British authorities full
details of a confession that
Fuchs is reported to have made.
Fuchs has been held incom-
municado pending his trial, which
may be secret, in a British court.
They indicated that Mr.. Hoover
expected the full details of the
case developed by the British,
when they are obtained, will af-
ford leads for continuing the in
vestigation in this country.
Mr.. Hoover returned to the
Capitol today for a third visit to
give details in the case of the So
year-old atomic scientist. He is
year-old atomic scientist. He
appeared for the second time
before Senate appropriations
subcommittee considering an FBI
request for funds to employ
several hundred more agents.
In an appearance last Friday
before the subcommittee, Mr..
Hoover was quoted as saying that
Fuchs had been a paid Russian
spy since 1889.
Fuchs Sympathetic With Reds.
After the meeting with Mr..
Hoover yesterday, Senator Nc
Mahon reported that DR.. Fuchs
had been definitely sympathetic"
to communistic idealogies since
his youth.
He also said there can be no
doubt" that the scientist had a
wide knowledge of the so-called
hydrogen bomb and that he "has
transmitted atomic secrets to
Russia"
The Senator would not say
where and under what circum-
stances the secrets were turned
over to the Russians.
1t was brought out that Fuchs,
q native of Germany, went to
England in 1888. When the war
bAOhC OOU 1lC was lllUSIuGQ ana
sent to Canada as a German
alien.
Became Top British Scientist.
He was released and returned
to England where in time he be-
came one of Britain's leading
atomic scientists and came to this
country with a British scientific
mission in 1943 to work on atomic
weapons at the Los Alamos IN.
Mex installation, where the first
atomic bomb was assembled and
exploded.
Some Senators familiar with the
ease said 1t was indicated, though
not conclusively, that DR.. Albert
Einstein, noted physicist now liv-
ing In New Jersey, helped obtain
the release of the young scientist
from the concentration camp.
Fuchs. 1t was said, obtained his
British citizenship in 1912,
Some members of Congress ac-
quainted with available details of