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wf evel am LE ame on rok ro ne oo i hs Ln nce | . wit NE 65-1659 be similar matters which I wrote up and hed forwarded to Moscow. T also ‘discussed * this information and data with agents of the Communist International in”” “7” New York. On one occasion I nas introduced by NICHOLASTROSENBERG to a man 4/° fe ole he described as head of the GPU in the United Stetes. ‘Thad given details of this to the Bureau and to ether agencies. ‘lhe chief interest of the GPU official at that meeting was the possibility of YCL and Party members gett- ing jobs in the State Department, where they could steal blank U. S. passports. "In the sumer of 1928 a | special highly secret. “gepartment OS Pe kgs: of the Communist Party was set up primarly for espionage s prope: ‘although -&i ie ied it had secondary objectives as well. It was headed by M - This | ase department, always one of themost highly secret in the Communist movement, fa ; had as its chief objective the gathering of all scientific information on civilian and military matters for transmission to the Soviet Union, so that they would be fully informed of American inventions, discoveries, etc., whether public or secret. This apparatus also was intended to recruit important - scientists into the Communist Party and to bring other scientists into front ... -"- organ. ations under the influence of the Party. an organization known as ce the‘rederation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians was formed <.+*-" by MARCEL SCHERER as the open front for this apparatus. I have‘ ‘given ‘mimte _ an details regarding SCHERER and these espionage objectives to the Bureau, to Military Intelligence, and testified publicly at.great length on them in May 1950 for the Caiifornia State Un-American Activities Committee. I testified on SCHERER and this apparatus intended primarly for propaganda purposes and also secondary purposes before the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security in executive sessions in the summer of 1951, and in line with the . Senate Committee policy, I assumed that the , Summary of that ‘testimony was a . woo aL immediately made available res) the: FSi. : AY can Sh at "In the mid-thirties “underground apparatus “of “the Communist movement. in America was headed by A PETERS, and as a District Organizer in the Carolinas and later, 1939 to 1941, in Tennessee, I worked personally under PETERS, reporting to him and receiving directives from him. PETERS personally spoke of himself to me as the Special Representative of the Communist International in charge of underground work and, while I cannot recall specific dates or exact words used, descrited or referred to the reletion- shiv of this undercround apraratue with the Soviet GPU and with thea infiltra- aap We Vis Mere Sppes. Sees a .—— Paws eee Sey tion of the U. S. Government in Washington, D. C. *One of his chief assistants in this work was onneiCosere, and CROSRIE, in personal conversations and discussions, spoke to me of the luterielationship of the underground structure and with the apparatus for gathering information that would be beneficial to the Soviet Union. CROSBIE and I were close friends over a period of years. He is now deceased. CROSBIE, - Te! according to statements made to me by himself and by GILBERT L. PARKS, recruited“ GILBERT L. PARKS into the Commnist Party and CROSBIE stated to me in 1935 © ee oS a re or 1936 that GILBERT L. PARKS had provided important policy information of © yeh great value to the Communist apparatus and the Soviet Union. 7 -B- ren Sree Genet