Evening star., 1961-05-28
Reds Exploited
Pugwash Talks,
Study Reveals
BY EARL HI. VOSS
Star Staff Writer


The Soviet Union has ex-
plotted Nthe widely respected
"Pugwash" conferences of
world scholars in an attempt
to subvert American scientists
and mobilize them to support
Communist policies, according
to a Senate staff study released
yesterday.
DR.. Jerome Wiesner and DR..
w. w. Rostow, members of
President Kennedy's White
House staff, attended the last
Pugwash meeting in Moscow
late last year. Several advisers
to the new Disarmament Ad-
miniStration also have attend
ed one or more Of the six Pug
wash meeting.
No Charges Made
The report, prepared by the
staff of the Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee, does
not charge any scientists with
having been subverted. THE
mber of scientist who
follow the Communist trail all
the way to subversion and es-
pionage is small. 1t is, never
theless, significant. Far more
significant, however, is the
damage done by those Scien-
fists who, though non-C -Commu-
mist, permit themselves to be
shared by plausible devices and
arguments :"
The PugwaSh conferences de-
rived their name from the 1857
site Of the first meeting, the
Nova Scotia home of Cleveland
industrialist Cyrus Eaton, who
paid most of the, expenses for
the first meetings. Mr.. Eaton is
a friend of Soviet Premier
Khrushchev.
The Cleveland philanthropist
mo longer supports the confer
Iences. Mrs. Agnes Meyer, Wash
Iington civic leader. has helped
to support later meetings.
The Ford Foundation re-
Gently took over the financing
Of the meetings, after scientist
participants met in New York
earlier this year. They decided
to drop the PugwaSh name in
favor Of calling their meetings
Conferences on Science and
World Affairs (COSWA).
The next COSWA sessions are
scheduled to be held in the
United States. After opening at
Woods Hole, Mass, September
5. the meetings will be con-
tinued in Aspen. Colo, from
September II to 18.
Want Chinese Reds
Invitations are to be sent to
two Communist Chinese scien-
fists. If the Peiping government
approves their travel to the
United States, sponsors Of
COSWA will ask the State De-
partment to grant them visas.
This will require a waiver of
American immigration regula-
tions.
Aleksandr v. Topchiev, one
Of the organizers Of the Pug
wash conferences, has indi-
Gated in official writings his
interest In recruiting foreign
scientists, according to the
Senate subcommittee analysis.
A 1857 article by Mr.. Topchiev
in the Soviet magazine. Kom-
mun6t, said: "Lelirl re-
marked: Thus we shall draw
all the Russian and European
Archimedes, one after another,
to our side > Soviet scien-
fists must speak up on dis
puted questions not only in
our press, but, when necessary,
in foreign languages and news
papers. If this is done
| it will be easier to win sup
porters for ourselves from the
ranks Of progressive scientists
Of the capitalist countries"
I'm comforting with Top
chiev, and in broadcasting his
views among American scien-
fists, the Pugwash delegates
must ask themselves whether
they have not strengthened
and bestowed respectability
upon the chief spokesman for
the view that science should
be subordinated to Marxism-
Leninism, which is not a SCI
ence -" said the staff re-
port.