Evening star., 1952-06-28
baltimore Visa Ban
Cancelled as Bruce
Prepares Apology
TroveI Agent Indicted
In Seattle on Charges
Of Falsely Informing ClA
By Gornett D. Rorner

The State Department has can
celed it's foreign travel ban against
Owen baltimore, it was learned
today.
The department also prepared
for early release a public apology
to Mr.. baltimore for it's part in
the fiasco stemming from a false
Central Intelligence Agency report.
Action here began promptly
after a Federal grand jury in
Seattle indicted a Seattle travel
agency executive for giving false
information to the CIA and the
|FBI.
Hadn't Asked Permission.
The indictment charged Harry
"A. Jarvinen of the Where To Go
Travel Agency in Seattle with
falsely reporting that Mr.. Latti-
more had obtained airline tickets
for a round-trip flight to Moscow
His report, passed on by the
CIA May 26, caused the State De-
partment on June 6 to ask the
Customs Bureau to make sure Mr..
baltimore did not leave the coun-
try. Passport regulations forbid
travel behind the iron curtain by
any American without special
State Department authority. Mr..
baltimore had not asked State
Department permission.
Announcement of cancellation
of the stop order against Mr.. Lat
timore was held up for release
along with the departments apol-
ogy to Mr.. baltimore.
Acting Secretary of State David
Bruce drafted a letter to Mr.. Lat
timore expressing regret for the
embarrassment caused him by the
departments acting on false in
formation.
Lawyer Blames Drink.
Gerald Shucklin, attorney for
the indicted travel agent, told re-
porters in Seattle that the whole
incident started at a cocktail
party where there was "too much
drinking"
Mr.. Shucklin said Mr.. Jarvinen
remarked between drinks that Mr..
baltimore was about to go to
Moscow. Mr.. Shucklin said a CIA
agent overheard the remark and
relayed it to the State Depart
ment.
mo one would have been justi-
fed in acting on that statement, +"
Mr.. Shucklin said.
Mr.. Jarvinen, a mild-appearing,
soft-spoken Finnish Army veteran
of the Russo-Finnish war and a
United States Army veteran of
the second World War, talked with
reporters in the presence of Mr..
Shuckling, his wife, Mrs. Sirkka
Jarvinen, q, and his mother, Mrs.
MdTSlt MuSGdpdS.
He said he would plead not
guilty.
Says 1t Should Be Confidential.
whether the charge against me
is true or false is beside the point"
he said, but I think the Govern
ment is wrong to indict me.
Few people will risk their necks
giving information to the Govern
ment now. Such information
should always be confidential
whether true or false"
The indictment specifically
charged Mr.. Jarvinen with know
ingly and unlawfully giving in
formation first to a CIA agent in
Seattle and later to the FBI that
tickets for Mr.. Lattimore's "trip"
had been bought for him at Mr..
Jarvinen's travel agency and
mailed to Mr.. baltimore.
Mr.. baltimore said at Balti-
more he did not know Mr.. Jarvi-
nen and had never heard of him
before.
Mr.. baltimore, a professor at
Johns Hopkins University, has
been a prime target of Senator
Republican, of Wiscon-
sin. Mr.. baltimore, however, often
has denied any pro-Communist
leanings, and insisted throughout
the latest row that he had no
plans to go to Moscow. !