Milford chronicle., 1953-09-11
HOW FAR HAS SOVIET INFILTRATION
GONE?

On August "a, the Internal Security
Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Com
mlttee-WhOSe Chairman is Senator Jenner.
and whose membership consists of five Re
publicans and three Democrats-issued an
astounding report After exhaustive inves-
tigatiOn of subversiOn inside the government
1t had found that "The Soviet international
organization has carried on a successful and
important penetration of the United States
Government and this penetration has not
been fully exposed"
The subcommittee came to number of
other related conclusions. The following
given here in condensed form, are among
them: The penetration has reached into the
top level of the government. Members of
the conspiracy successfully protected and
helped obtain advancement for each other.
Over the years the penetration was made
into agencies concerned with economic re-
covery, war, and foreign policy and postwar
planning. The communist infiltratOrs gen.
orally worked behind the scenes-influencing
congressional Investigations, drafting laws,
etc.-and always served the interest of their
Soviet superiOrs. Literally thousands of
U. S. secrets have been stolen by Soviet
agents within our government. Despite
warnings by the FBI and other security
agencies, little was done by the executive
branch to prevent such espionage until Con-
gress acted. Policies and programs laid down
by members OF this conspiracy are still in
effect within the government and constitute
a continuing hazard to national security.
The report goes into considerable his
tOrlca detail. The first organized penetra-
tlon apparently took place in the early '3Os.
and thereafter it was broadened to an almost
unbelievable extent. According to evidence
possessed by the subcommittee, members of
the secret communist underground included
an executive assistant to the President: an
assistant secretary of the Treasury; the
Secretary of the international Monetary
FUND; member and a secretary of the
National Labor Relations Board, a chief
counsel for the Senate Subcommittee on
Civil Liberties, and the head of the Latin
American Division of the Office of Strategic
Services. The report gives a number of
typical case histories of men within the gov
eminent who served their Soviet masters
especially well, and deals with witnesses who
invoked the fifth amendment when called
to testify. All of these, it's report saws.
were myleldlng, UncOOperative and even
abusive"
Finally, after citing chapter and verse
concerning the conspiracy for thousands of
words, the subcommittee make certain re-
concentrations. 1t urges that the investi-
cation be continued, and that the work be
facilitated by giving Congress the power to
grant immunity to key witnesses. It also
urges that the executive branch re-evaluate
the records and histories of all employees
brought into government, recommended or
promoted by persons shown to have been
Soviet agents, along with all employees who
nave been closely and intimately associated
with persons shown to be Soviet agents
Another very important recommendation is
that the Legislation now before committees
OF Congress which would operate to prevent
communist organization and control of
workers in communications and other vital
de1ense industries be considered for early
enactment"
A brief resume such as this can touch
only few high spots of the findings. The
whole document deserves the widest possible
reading.
SOCIALISM STILL CREEPING
President Eisenhower rightly cited the
Tennessee Valley Authority as an example
of creeping Socialism"
The President feels that way about IVA
ne said, because it used Federal tax-monev
IN order to cut electricity rates and attract
business to the Tennessee Valley.
The proposals for state or Federal devel-
Opment of hydrO-electric power on the
Niagara River, in New York State, and the
plans for Federal power development at
HelPs Canyon on the Snake, in the Far
West, are likewise examples of Creeping
Socialism" Supporter of these projects for
get that tax-free Federal or state plants
mean higher taxes for those who do nav.
They overlook the fact that government
subsidies-state or Federal-mean eventual
government control.
It's time for, the American peonla +o do