Evening star., 1951-12-14

tOCt tVlCc COllVcI SdtlOIl0 Will Jd1lt
in Jaffe's room at the Statler ir
Washington on April 10Th anc
20th and May 9th and 10Th. These
indicate that there was some con-
viviality, and that Service talkec
very freely. discussing, among
other things, troop dispositions
and military plans which he saio
he had seen and which he saio
were very secret"
This intimacy of talk appears
to have continued unabated
though from the first Service fell
that Jaffe was unduly inquisitive
and evidently suspected that Jaffe
might be Communist. having
after the meeting of April goth
asked Lieut.. Roth whether Jaffe
was Communist. to which Roth
replied that he did not believe
Jaffe was a Communist but thai
he was extremely sympathetic.
Superiors Not Consulted.
1t also continued after Isaacs
had told Service on April Is that
Jaffe was bad business or bad
medicine" and after Jaffe had on
May 10 or 20 taken the party
line" in conversation with Serv-
ice. At no time did Service con-
suit his superiors as to the extent
to which he might properly give
Jaffe information.
What have we that gives ground
for reasonable doubt as to Serv-
ices loyalty? With some necessary
repetition of what has preceded,
the grounds, as we see them, are
these:
He knew very early in his as
sociation with Jaffe that Jaffe was
a very doubtful character, ex-
tremely left-wing. as Service said
in his testimony before us. He
was asked before us, What made
you think he might be a Com
munist?" The answer was. II
don't remember anything specific
1t was fairly obvious from talking
to him, and his general approach,
that he was extremely left-wing
He was a much more uncritical
booster of the Chinese Com
munists than I was. At some point
fairly early. he mentioned his
interest and participation in some
thing like Russian relief"
His counsel urged, in his ex-
cellent brief. that Service had
mentioned Jaffe to several of his
friends and colleagues. and that
none of the persons of whom
these inquiries were made-Vin-
cent Friedman. Isaacs, or Sails
bury-gave any indication that
Jaffe was Communist or an i'm
proper person to associate with.
His statement is not entirely ac-
curate, but it scarcely helps Serv-
ice.
Service was a highly trusted
official OF his Department. of long
and wide experience in his par
ticular field. The statements made
by him, quoted above. show that
no such warning was necessary.
He knew almost from the start of
his relations with Jaffe of Jaffes
true character. To this man he
gave. as we have stated. large
number of his reports. His story is
that there were eight or ten of
them which he gave to Jaffe. Jaffe
as reported by the FBI. said Serv-
ice gave him 10. Giving these re-
ports was against the State De-
partment's regulations, as Service
knew. 1t is true that. as we have
said. these regulations were ap-
parently not always strictly OBJ
served. and how many of these
reports Service really furnished
Jaffe is matter of considerable
doubt.
Step by step. as Service con-
tinued in his association with
Jaffe. Service had continuing
line of warnings as to Jaffe's
character. We begin on April 20,
after Service had delivered his re-
ports to Jaffe. He asked Roth if
Jaffe were Communist, and Roth
said he was not a Communist, but
left winger and very sympa-
thetic. Later, when Service came
to New York on April "a and 25.
two things which should have been
a warning occurred.
He said he was very much an
noyed at finding that Jaffe had
turned over Services reports to
Gayn for use. 1t has been pre-
viously noted that Service had put
no restrictions on the use to which
Jaffe might put these reports. He
had. he says. simply assumed that
Jaffe would treat them as report