Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-15
Drive Mapped Against Spies
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court order than it is for the
Justice Department. The COM
mittee must inform the Attor-
ney General Of its intention. The
Attorney General may then
argue against the granting OF
the order in any particular
instance.
According to the House COM
mittee. the following individuals
Mere, Were members Of the spy rings
The Silvermaster apparatus:
William Ludwig Ullmann. q ma
Jor IN the Army Air Force who
lived with Silvermaster and
m a IN tanned a photo-record
camera in the basement Of the
Silyermaster home. He is &C
cused of obtaining and photo
graphing classified war plans as
well as FBI reports which had
been furnished to Army Intelli-
gence at the Pentagon.
Also, Solomon Adler, Treasury
Department; Norman Bursler.
Justice Department; Frank Coe.
assistant administrator, Foreign
Economic Adm inistration:
Lauchlin Currie, administrative
assistant to President Roosevelt
and now living in South Amer
lea; Abraham George Silverman,
Railroad Retirement Board: Will
liam Taylor, Treasury Depart
ment; Bella Gold, Senate SUBJ
committee on War Mobilization
and FEA. and Mrs. Bella Gold,
Bureau Of Employment Security
and the Treasury.
Under NKvD.
Miss Bentley testified that all
these persons were under the
direction - Ae NKVD, the So
Wet secret poiice. She also said
that Harry Dexter White, for
mer Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, co-operated with the
SilvermaSter group.
The Perlo apparatus: Edward
J. Fitzgerald. War Production
Board; Chaser, Charles Kra-
mer (Krevitsky), National La
Dor Relations Board, OPA and
economist with Senate slibconl-
mittee on War Mobilization: Sol
ONION Lischinsky. United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Ad-
ministration; Harry Magdoff,
War Production Board: Allan
Rosenberg, FEA, and Donald
Niven Wheeler, Office of Stra-
tegic Services.
In addition, Miss Bentley
named 10 or more other Govern
ment employees. including VIII
liam w. Remington of the
Commerce Department, who,
while they were not members
OF either the Silvermaster or
Perle groups. co-operated in OBJ
tanning Government information
Tor the use of Russian agents.
Allegations Denied.
Currie, White, the Colds. Coe
and Adler have denied the Bent
ley allegations. Perlo, Silyerman,
Ullmann, Kramer and Silver
master refused to confirm or
deny the charges on grounds
of possible self incrilmination.,
The Arthur A. Adams appar-l
tus: Clarence Francis Hiskey,
chemist at the SAM atomic la
boratory, Columbia University, |
and later al the metaliurgical
laboratory, University Of Chica-
go; John Hitchcock Chaplin, scien-
tist at the metallurgical labora-
tory; Victoria Stone, an s.inti-
mate associate of Adams during
the entire period he is known to
have been engaged in atomic /
espionage: Julius Heiman, veal |
thy hacker of Earl Browder in the
Communist Party; Eric Bernay. /
manufacturer of photograph
records; Samuel Novick, owner
Of a radio service company, and
Dr.. Louis Miller, a physician.
Hiskey took refuge in the fifth
amendment; Chaplin admitted
contacts with Adams but denied
turning any atomic data over
to him.
The Radiation L boratory
group: Steve Nelson, hard-core
Communist Party official, who
attempted to use his friendship
with the wife of DR.. j. Robert
Oppenheimer, the nuclear physi-
cist, to gain access to secret atom
data. Nelson worked closely with
Russian diplomatic and consular
officials in carrying on his
espionage ring activities.
Also. DR.. Joseph w. Weinberg,
who is alleged to have slipped
laboratory secret data
to Nelson for transmission to the
Soviet Union.
In addition, the committee
said that the following scientists
at the atomic laboratory were
Communist Party members and
attended meeting in Vein
oerg's home, which also was at
tended by Nelson: Giovanni
Rossi Lomanitz. Irving David
Fox, David Bohm and Ken Max
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