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. - EFARDARD FORM NO. 64 “S ioe Office Memorandum & UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT > ag TO : Mr. Tolson Wiad ‘Th . ber 17, 1951 e e e ; . 790 £8 : a ven, [lev US WAS D agg). SUBJECT: Lie as rig: | LAIES//7/e3_BYSeiGsicse ine called me rather urgently on the afternoon as of October 17th gnd.atated.Henry Wallace was presently testifying’. and the Committee had recetued information that in 1943 or 1944 , subveraive agent asked Wallace for additional data on the atomt cs... bomb; that Wallace ts reported to havé satd to thé subverstie ~~ ~~ agent that he had gotten the U235 for the agent and that should *” f be enough. Sourwine wondered if this was true and whether we AN could give them the name of the agent. Mr. Belmont had a quick check. made.on.the.inetdent ang } | ‘ Slegg, olay the only possibility he could .come.up with. was-that.this aight have referred to some connectton with Wallace and Boris Pregel aha Pres Tequently wae in contact with Wallace, although there ts ho_indicatton of any meetings in Philadelphia. . I adutsed Sourwine that we could not readily tdentify an inctdent such ae he described but that tt was public knowledge that Wallace and Pregel were close. Later on Supervisor Dissly located a letter which Bill _ Borden of the Joint Commttter an Atomic Enargy_sent-meon-June.22, nsni ~a.copy.of..o.communtcation..directed to Senator Xnowland by C. M. Bertolette, who in turn transmitted a summar of informal data volunteered by Ss Young White which referred te; Boris Pragel. In this material there ts an indication that ~-. Corporation Noe 1, formed by Henry Wallace, former Vice-President of the United States, "acquired 100 kilos of straight commerctal uranium which tt sold te corporation Noe 2. Somewhere between the first and final corporation this matertal became U-235." r hed ni ; t 1 d 2 £ tit -th ¢-Seactiption ofthe. tnfornat n urnished by Sourwine, and I suggest we take no further action unless we get a further cal ones Sourwine. eine we oe ead BRS cc: Mr. Ladd Mr. Belmont 3 ‘G re. Belmo qin ese RECORDED - 26 G4 —/! 18 y" eR LBN:CMC 5 4251 a a ADDEWDUM, LBW:CMC, 10-18-51 | : ot wi this morning Eva Adons, Senator McCarran's Adminis trative Assistant, colled and stated ahe wos a little bit concerned over se Oe vera.