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nnn . ' Union and head of the Red army espionage the U. S.; Vassili M. Zubelin, head of the soviet/: “Futter Lewis J: ‘Acheson's . alicy On FBI Criticized ASHINGTON—Secretary of State Dean Acheson holds a whip hand over the federal bureau of investigation. The G-man can't ar- rest a soviet agent unless it has a green light from Acheson, whose idea of a stalwart American ig the convicted thief of government secrets, Alger Hiss. In 22 instances since 1942 the state department has refused to grant the FBI permission to arrest known soviet espionage agents who were stealing atom bomb or other secrets from government amides Filan BECUMILY Tues. I have to admit that this sounds like a bad dream out of some opium den, but so help me, it’s all in the record. You can read it yourself if you'll write the government printing office for a copy of senate hearings on communist activities among alien groups in the U. 8. The FBI spends millions of dollars annually tracking down espionaye agents. G-men work long hours and risk their lives trailing the Reds and clocking their espionage activiites. They build up airtight cases, set traps to catch the com- munists redhanded, and then Acheson says “no”. partment said, “No.” G-men have quit in disgust, and I doubt if 2 one could blanie them, ERE are a few of the Kremlin lads who have benefited from Acheson’s veto of the FBI: Andrei I. Schevchenko, a Russian agent, en- tered the U. S, in 1942, He was allowed in the country as a representative of the aviation department of the soviet purchasing commission, This is how much purchasing Schevchenko did. He hotfooted it to the Bell Aircraft Co. in Buf- falo, N. ¥., and got busy trying to bribe workmen there to pass along blueprints and other informa» tion to him. When the FBI got on his trail they sewed him up tight and asked permission for the pinch, The state department said no, and four years later, in 1946, Schevchenko was allowed to leave the U. S. you can guess what he kept an doing these four years he stayed in the U. 8. Gregori Markovich Kheifets, soviet vice-consul at San Francisco, arrivel In the U. S. in 1941, He left with a bundle of secrets in 1944. During his stay here he used the espionage net cover name of “Brown”, He operated an illegal radio station from the San Francisco consulate, moni- toring U. S. broadcasts and sending out messages to other Red spies in the country. The FBI had the goods on him, The state department, so that diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union would not be disturbed, said no again. HE 20 others included such as Pavel Mik- hailev, acting consul general for the Boviet secret poilce, who stayed two years in the DU. 5. as second secretary of the soviet embassy Washington. Sergi Grigorievich Lukianov, responsible fo’ spying on VU. S. naval informationy”A wiumee courier named Vasstlenko, who left Washington for Moscow by plane with seven diplomatic pouches filled with espionage data. The FBI : didn't dare to touch Vassilenko, even though it - knew what he was carrying. The state depart- . ment said no. You might think these 22 are isolated instances, where someone in the state department like Alger Hic Inenedy the anti-arrest ordare th tha WRI 55 Hal58 I5suea O0ne Snii-arres orecrs tO ine 2s. You'd be wrong. It was, and still is, a state de- pariment policy. No communists as such in the state department gre responsible for the order. It is an order promulgated after study and dts- cussion by our diplomatic cfficials, who are now asking us to abide by their latest decisions and support their efforts. The same brains are there today, minus Hiss, ty i . ' Fulton Lewis Jr. Ane, State Department Blocks FBI Case YRPASHINGTON—The state department policy T¥ of shackiing the FBI when it attempts to arrest soviet espionage agents in this country, is in effect now, just as it was between 1940 and 1946 when 22 of the Kremlin's atom burglar’s op~ erated with immunity here. Arthur Adams is the most famous of the 22 protected by the state department. He was trailed vy the FBI in 1945 to a Chicago park where he conferred with a U. S. atom bomb scientist and then hit for Portland, Ore., and a soviet ship. FBI agents corralled him there and physically kept him from boarding the ves- se]. Agents knew Adams had atom secrets in his pocket and they called the state department for permission to pick up the spy. Just to keep Adams in custedy, a secret werrent, charging him with a minor Yederal vioiation, was obtained at I -the FBI office in New York. But the state de- aad Adams trotted back to The Kremlin without even bidding his Wash- ington friends in the department goodbye. ASSILI M. ZUBELIN wes head of the NKVD in Washington from 1942 to 1944. He was third secretary of the soviet embassy in Wash-= ington, and his wife, Elizabeth Yurovna Zubelin, handied embassy spying among communist wom- en in the U. S. Zubelin’s activities were nailed down by the FBI, Demands for a pinch were in ' the works when the state department stepped in again. So far as anybody knows, Zubelin would still be operating out of the soviet embassy in . Washington except that his activities got so ‘brazen that even the communists got nervous, The Kremhin called him home for a little recon- ditioning. One of the real cuties of the soviet spy net worked out of the soviet consulate offices in Nev York. She is Olga Valentinovna Khlopkova, a clerical employe in the soviet vice-counsel’s office. in Los Angeles until she graduated to espionage. She had to eo back to Russia in 1944 for a litile more schooling in spying befcre she took on the New York job, The state department gave her the necessary travel permits.«Her main job after settling down to work was handling funds for soviet spies. HE paid off Kremlin agents short of funds as well as U. S. communists who were helping / clean out the atom bomb cupboard. But the FBI couldn't lay a glove on her because the state department didn’t want to upset diplomatic re- Jations with our Russian ally. This overworked policy seems to have been predicated on state department fears that if we stopped soviet spy- ing the Kremlin would get sore and refuse to accept any more lend-lease tanks and planes from us. When the Canadian Royal Mounted police blew the lid off the soviet atom spy net in that.coun- try, a lot of Kremlin errand buys who had been | not-footing back and forth across the border into the U. 5S. were exposed. Vitali Pavlov, sec- ‘ ond secretary of the soviet cmibassy in Canada, was the trigger man who kept the spy ring Trun- : ning on this continent. He limited his top level espionage dealings to Leonid Taresov, secretary of the soviet embassy in Mexicc; Vassili Georgie- » vich Dolgov, attache of the soviet embassy in H Washington, and Vassili D. Minonov, assistant -pegretary in the same embassy. wus the Canadians rounded up the Russiang and out of courtesy, took their secret find- ings to the White House, state department and FBI, nobody but the FBI got excited. Other parties yawned and pointed out that it was state department policy not to molest the friendly i La Reds, This, of course, was five years ago. Natur- ally, you’d think things would be different sow. Just as a kicker, so we can get started:en it J jater, here fa a statement by Juan E.- Putettioy, state department protector during the nge hearings on communism. Peurifoy foun him- i i self a quiet foxhole as ambassador to Greesa ‘“the Tydings fiasco, but while fe 7 \te department miaticrs for tb ““f/