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tae te a a ET. . « ’ NY 65-16659 | : _ _ 7 oe ty . ‘ "of evaluations of bigh level personnel in the U. S. Goverment and the? eggs? private views on international questions of people high in the government ; was regarded as of very great importance and information on this as contrib— uting much to the Soviet Union. "In describing the related intelligence and espionage work for the Soviet Union and in the interests of the Soviet Union, it is essential to point out that this does not necessarily mean that such actions were: vior “ ‘y _lations of law or that anyone could. have been prosecuted, conviéted and °:: ot punished if the facts had all been brought out. In the Communist movement, pint oe hoe which is based on the ultimate overthrow and destruction of the American’ ~f’> *: Government with the aid of the Red Army and the world power of the Soviet Union, it is simply impossible to draw arbitrary lines between information fan the ¢an lasAdawnchin af ¢he Cemeind ot BPardar af ¢hea TCA and tanfawnstian Fan a Wd VES VY AOU OLA Va LI I A OR ee CL De the Soviet Governnent because every high-ranking Communist official knows that all information that is significant at all obtained by the Party is _ hee immediately transmitted to the Soviet Union. ‘It was common knowledge that. 0° - many of the higher officials of the Party in this country belonged ‘to the ce o, Soviet GPU and it was well know that the Soviet GPU had espionage as. one. a, of its purposes. 2 "In order to understend the relationship of the Communist Party to intelligance and senionace work. T think that the work of Cammunicts Ps ak Ne oe Ee be te masa ee he Ee Ee rewrh thy oe Eee Whale Trt & oh vi YORLEUnL Sts in the atomic energy field may illustrate this very well. MARCZL SCHERER, who had been trained in the Soviet Union in the early thirties and who has, “oo since 1928, headed the special department for work among scientists primarily ow for espionage purposes, .came to California and took personal charge of the - cma . FAECT apparetus around the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California. od SCHERER arrived in Alameda County in August or the first of September of as 1941 and spent 18 months there in personal charge. All of the information that I gathered while working with RICHARD COMBS on the California State Committee on Un-American Activities in 1950 showed, as stated by the Committee, that scores of Communists were employed in various capacities for work on the atomic bomb. From my knowledge of Communist techniques, I am confident that not one in six of those Communists engaged in specific acts of theft of confidential data and transmission of this data; however, by acting in a unified manner to help the Communist apparatus, they were all serving dirgctly or indirectly the interests of espionage. And I can have little doubt that practically all of them realized this. With such an apparatus to work fron, the real espionage agents can pick the people they need who may be in a position to get the information required. "The Communist Party membership of GILBERT L. PARKS can be meat ascertained from many witnesses. Only. my wife, among people of the cores Sea . -l. me ey ™