The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1954-04-10

To-day, after II years of organized Communist pene
America have the whole story in the public
record the story of Moscows reacherous nfltraton OF
every major department and agency of United
States Government both in Washington and throug
those which large Federal payro controlled
by the Washington bureaucrats.
"On August rs, 1850. Lee Freshman. formerly an
torney in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration
testified before the House Committee Un-Amercan
Activities Under OATH he acknowledged that he had been
. member of a Communist Party cell in Washington in
1884 and 1885. He named three coworkers in the Agri
cultural Adjustment Administration the first of the New
Deal recovery agencies colaboraors in the Communist
under ground then operating within the Federal depart
mens under the -Tugwel program to
the American economic and political system
"In the l2-year record of the House Committee on
Un.Ameriean Activities there earlier date established
for the launching of the Communist network within the
structure of the American Government The Communist
cell in the State Department. which to light in the
Alger Hiss trial. began operation in 1889 The Marzan
cell in the State Department did its work in i940-43. The
Judith Coplon ring in the Department of Justice active
in the 194346. The Amerasa spy ring which op.
Grated in both the State and Navy Departments well
in the Office of Strategic Services sent its secrets to Mos
the years 194345 The atomic energy spy ring did
its work in 1926. Pressmans testimony the first
from former Government employee who had been him
self member of the Moscow network in Washington DUR
ing the frat months of the New Deal dating from March
4, 1888.
"The three other Communist Party members who
worked closely with him in the Agricultural adjustment
Adminsation's kremn cell named by FRESHMAN in
his testimony first Nathan Witt who later became
rotary of the National Labor Relations Board
Federal labor policy for years; second, John Abot
who chief of the legal section of the Agricultural Ad
jusment Administration in $685. became assistant general
counsel for Harry Hopkins Works Progress Adminsra-
ton in 1895, and assistant to the Attorney General 1887
49, and third Charles Kramer who left the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration to become general counsel to
he aborC
with Chairman Robert F. Wagner of New York. one of the
principal authors of the Wagner Act which gave COM
munism free hand in the American labor movement. :.
In very real sense, Preessmans testimony forms the
vital missing link in the Communist trail in New Deal
Washington The sided Moscow network which
to light in later years all the departments of the
Government seeded originally in 1888 in the Asrcu
tural Adjustment Administration, when Henry A. Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture, with Rexford Guy Tugwe
Under Secretary and top administrator of the first -
of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration.
Freshman frat named . a influential king pin
of the Washington Communists in the early New Deal era
the testimony of Whitaker Chambers in August ls4s
When the House Committee called him that
Freshman dismissed Chambers charges the stale and
urd mouthings of Republican exhibitonist" In the
manner Alger Hiss had denied Chamber accusa-
tons with unrestraned vehemence Two years-and one
Presidential election-were to before the record
would be completed by Pressmsns frank
the Communist aggression in koreathat he had himself
suggested Alger Hiss for appointment general counse
for the Senate Munitions investigating Committee in 1885
from which post Hiss had moved larger fields pub
lie service in the State Department and the United Nations
Preparatory Commission.
After leaving Federal service in 1886 Pressman be-
national figure general counsel for the CLIO, at
$4,000 year. As legal guide and the late Sid
Hilman, Freshman moving force in the Clio Po-
ltcal Action Committee, which reelected Roosevelt for
the third and fourth terms Henry Wallace Vice
President and then Secretary of Commerce. and
it's stranglehod Congress.
As long ago as December ls4s, the House Committee
on Un-American Activities reported;
Communist espionage has broken through the security
forces of the United States Government and made
secret information of both military and diplomatic plans
policies and actions This espionage system has been
fully developed period of than Is years. and
it has been successful to degree critical to the welfare
and safety of the people of this Republic.
is significant that the development period of this
Communist network in Washing ton-"more than Is
years. of l94S-links perfectly with Pressmans test
mony that his Communist activity in AAA dated back
the very launching of AAA in 1933-34 Thus there is
established in the printed public record unbroken
chain of organized Communist activity, the direct ex