Evening star., 1952-06-08
2G. 0. P. Lawmakers
Say New Soviet Envoy
Is an Insult 10 j. :.
BY the Associoied Press

BY the Assecioied Press
Two Congressman yesterday at
tackled the new Soviet Ambassa-
dor to the United States. calling
him a spy and a former secret
police general whose appointment
was an insult.
The attacks came from Repre-
sentatives O'Konski and Lawrence
H. Smith, both Wisconsin Repub-
licanS.
Mr.. O'Konski said he would ask
a House committee to voice a
formal protest against the accep-
tance of Georgi N. Zarubin as new
Russian envoy.
Mr.. Smith demanded in a state
ment that the White House and
State Department reverse their
reported plan to accept Mr..
Zarubin.
Diplomatic appointments are
subject to acceptance by the gov
ernment to which the diplomats
are sent.
To Succeed Panyushkin.
Mr.. Zarubin, former AmbaSsa-
dor to London, has been approved
as the successor to Alexander S
Panyushkin who leaves Washing
ton today for an unSpecif1ed new
aSSignement. Mr.. PanyuShkin
has served in Washington since
December, 1947.
Mr.. Zarubin. a member Of sew
eral Soviet delegations to the
United Nations. left London last
month.
Both legislators attacked the
new envoy for his service as Am
bassador to Canada when an ex-
tensive Soviet embassy spy ring
dealing with atomic secrets was
uncovered in 1916. ..
They said Mr.. Zarubin had to-
taken responsibility. although a
Royal Commission cleared him OF
any knowledge of the espionage
activities by his subordinates.
Charges NKVD Links.
Mr.. O'Konski also told a re-
porter that Mr.. Zarubin had been
identified to his satisfaction as a
former NKVD (secret police gen.
eral who commanded a wartime
Russian prison camp from which
thousands of Polish officers dis
appeared.
A witness before a special House
committee investigating the 1910
massacre of 1000 Polish officers in
Katyn Forest, Russia, said he
thought the Russian diplomat
named Zarubin and the man
named Zarubin, who commanded
a Russian prison camp where he
was once confined, were the same.
The camp commander was an
NKVD (secret police general.
The witness, Col. George Gro
bicki, a former Polish officer, said
however. that he could not be sure.
He made his tentative identifica-
ton on the basis of a photograph
of Mr.. Zarubin while he was Am
bassador to London. Col. Gro
bicki said "the likeness is very
great"
He added that ,he was always
well treated while he was at Ko-
zielsk prison camp, commanded by
Gen. Zarubin.
Col. Grobicki and other wit
nesses before the House commit
tee said that all but ITS of 5000
Polish prisoners at Kozielsk disap-
peared from the camp.
1000 Bodies Exhumed.
The bodies of over 1000 Poles
were exhumed from crude graves
in Katyn.
The Russians have accused the
Germans of the Katyn massacre.
and the Germans have charged
that the Russians carried it out.
Representative Smith said the
White House and State Depart
ment, in accepting Mr.. Zarubin.
''have followed their usual policy
of kowtowing to the Reds. and to
Stain" He declared the appoint
ment "is not acceptable to the
overwhelming majority Of our
people, and is an insult to the
United States" Mr.. Smith said
recent disclosures Of Russian
atomic knowledge proved "the
successful operations of Russian
spies in the United States as in
Canada while Zarubin was
in charge of all of RuSsia's af-
fairs in the Dominion"
He noted that the commission
had cleared Mr.. Zarubin of COM
plicity in the spy plot but said
the Soviet ambassador was the
responsible diplomatic official in
Canada.
1--WE in America are always ex-
pected to fall for the old Com
munist trick of innocent fronts, :"
Mr.. Smith said.