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S. All the fugitives would be
delivered directly to the FBI and
held in custody incommunicado
until their information proved
true or false.
6. If their information proved
true, all would receive perma-
nent political asylum. T. it
proved false, all would be re-
turned in secret to a place of
their own choosing.
Fortune in U. S. Money.
z. They would be allowed to
keep a fortune in American cur
rency they would bring with
them.
8. If refused asylum they
would also keep two valises of
documents they would bring
with them.
9. Their presence in the
United States would be kept
secret.
10. They would receive writ
ten guarantee, signed by the
President, or other high officials,
that their surrender conditions
would be observed.
In return they guaranteed to
deliver:
/. Details of Soviet invasion
plans for Western Europe.
2. Names and data on all
Soviet agents in the United
States State Department and
the CIA.
3. Full names and data about
members of the Soviet atomic
spy ring in the United States, to
include the bosses of Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg.
4. Bank receipts for $2.5 mil
lion deposited in a bank in
Zurich, Switzerland, in the ac-
count of a United States State
Department official to be used
to keep Spain out of the West
ern alliance.
5. Lists of all major Soviet
civil and military agents now
working in the United States.
6. Two valiSes of documents
to prove all their allegations
Those are the instructions as
they were delivered to the FBI
att Washington headquarters
In short, they offered to break
the back of the Soviet espionage
machine in the United States in
return for guaranteed protection
in secret.
If the United States agreed
Gallo said he was to take the
guarantee and a photograph OF
himself with the President, OF
Vice President and Mr.. Hoover
to prove he had talked to them
For six and a half hours the
agents cross-examined Gallo. II
he was lying, he did a super jot
of it. They doubled back or
seemingly insignificant details
He stayed right with them. They
told us to return and report tt
the San Diego FBI.
Pays Own Way.
Gallo sailed for Naques or
August 81, with his automobile
aboard the S S. Constitution
He Aad volunteered to try tc
contact the big Fish" He hac
no guarantees, no pictures, ano
paid his own expenses.
t He had only a verbal agree
ment that we would try to help
him if he could contact the big
Fish" Gallo would deal only
with me in person.
| Nearly a month of silence fol-
lowed. Then on the morning OF
September 16 I received a tele-
gram:
Call me at Marbella IS, Pro-
vincia de Malaga, using tape re-
corder. Very important. fSigned)
Gonzolo GoiZueta."
When my call went through
two FBI agents we're standing by
and the tape recorder took every
word of the conversation. The
connection was weak. so Gallo
spelled the name. The letters
came like delayed explosion.
BIB like in Barcelona" he
said. "e-r-i-a. spoke with them
last night"
"How many are there?" ]
asked.
Three" he said from across
the world. Then he told me what
I was supposed to do:
Go to the Senate Immigration
Committee for the guarantee of
asylum. Have Senator Nc
Carthy make the ARRANGEMENTS
actually the Attorney General
is the one who can grant asylum.
Bring the guarantees to Spain
as quickly as possible. Gallo re-
peated everything to one of the
FBI agents in English and
Spanish.
Secrets Don't Last.
That was 130 days after Berie
was last seen in public, and il
was nine weeks that our contact
had been kept secret. 1t wasn't
due to last.
Washington FBI was notified
Immediately. The answer came
the next afternoon: 1.-The case
has been turned over to the
State Department" The next
day was in Washington phon-
ing the State Department. II
was in the file that Gallo would
deal only with me.
This is the Undersecretary,
polite voice said when I identi-
fled myself. Eyes, we were noti-
fed you were coming"
II assumed you would want to
talk to me-" I said.
"We have nothing to discuss
unless you have additional in
formation to add to the f1le," he
told me.
That night San Diego tele-
phoned to ask how the story
had leaked all over Capitol Hill.