Evening star., 1950-04-20
baltimore Linked
To Communist Cell
In Budenz Testimony
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committee could obtain one of
the documents but if it did it
would find there the initials IL
or XII" referring to Mr.. baltimore
we were so advised for our Off
cial information.
AS corroboration of this bit of
his testimony Mr.. BudenZ sug-
gested the committee subpoena
Frederick Vanderbilt Field. who
has been referred to by Senator
Mccarthy as a seIf-proclaimed
Communist. Mr.. Budenz also sug-
gested the subpoening of Jack
Stachel, one of the II Communist
leaders convicted in New York of
conspiracy to overthrow the Gov
ernment, and Earl Browder, for
mer head of the Communist Party.
Accuses Frederick Field.
He testified that Mr.. Field was
associated with the Communist
cell IN the Institute of Pacific Re
lations and that Mr.. Field and
Philip Jaffe were ito my knowl-
edge Soviet espionage agents"
Mr.. Jaffe is a former editor Of
the magazine Amerasia and was
indicted and fined in 1945 in a
case involving the theft of Govern
ment documents.
Mr.. baltimore sat close by as
Mr.. Budenz testified. With him
were Mrs. baltimore and his law
yers, Abe Fortas and Thurman
Arnold.
They sat directly behind Mr..
Budenz, so close they could have
reached out and touched him.
Mr.. Budenz said that the Com
munists, in line with an estab-
lished policy, succeeded in in
filtrating the institute to the
extent that the institute was "in-
deed to large measure influenced
and controlled by them"
Infiltration Charged.
He said Mr.. Field, an official of
the institute. was lone of the
sources of inflltration. Asso-
ciated with him indirectly, he
added, was Mr.. Jaffe.
After laying this foundation,
Mr.. Budenz moved rapidly on to
what he said were Mr.. Lattimore'S
connections with the organiza-
ton.
He said that at a 1887 meeting,
called by BroWder, I'VE were
instructed to represent Chinese
Communists no longer as Red
Communist" but as agrarians.
One of the efforts in this direc-
tion was placing articles in maga-
zines to emphasize the point.
1t was in this connection, Mr..
Budenz testified, that Mr.. Latti-
more was given general direction
in organizing writer's" to present
the Communists point of view as
far as the Chinese Communists
were concerned. Mr.. baltimore
was associated with Pacific At
fairs, the magazine of the in
stitute, he added.
Cites Magazine Article.
Subsequently an article by T. A.
Bison appeared in Pacific Affairs,
Mr.. Budenz said, carrying out that
party line.
At that point in his testimony
Mr.. Budenz was asked by Senator
Green if he knew Mr.. baltimore.
mo, sir. did not" Mr.. Budenz
replied.
He quickly added that he didn't
know Alger Hiss either" but knew
that he was a Communist. Mr..
Hiss, a former State Department
official. was convicted of perjury
in denying that he gave secret
documents to a Communist
courier.
baltimore Likely to Testify.
Mr.. baltimore, who has denied
the charges made by Senator Nc
Carthy that he is or was Com
munist and Russia's top spy in
this country, probably will take
the stand later to reply to the
Budenz testimony.
Senator Mccarthy had said he
would be willing to stand or fall"
on the baltimore case in his gen.
eral contention that the State
Department has been infiltrated
by Communists and their SYM
pathizers. Mr.. baltimore is not
a department employe, but has