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WASH FIELD IETTER TO DIRECTOR FE; SURCOKNITIEE OF SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE these initials were customary, that they were used by the Party in designating the identity of the person concerned if that particular person was in public life and his identity was not desired to be disclosed. Mr. BUDENZ was next . asked if he knew of any occasions when LATTIMORE might have been used as a con- duit for information from Asia to the CP, and he replied that he Imew of no occasions, other than those that he had mentioned, namely, the times that i he was informed by STACHEL and IIELD. | H | 7 Mr, BUIENZ was asked if China was considered the vital spot as far | as the CP was concerned, and he replied that it was and added that in the CP } it was considered that American acquiescence of a Red China and a hed Poland f must be obtained. . Senator HICKENLOOFER then asked if Mr. BUDENZ would say that the i ! in China on the part of the Communists were of the highest priority | and he answered that that was true, and he remarked STALIN has said that wars | aren't declared, they are made, and Mr. BUDENZ then stated that World War III was begun in 1945. Senator HICKENLOOPER then asked if, in Mr, BUIENZ' opinion, | did the Communists assign their most important men the Chinese problen, Mr, BUDENZ stated that that was true, that GSRHART’SISLER had had that assign- ment before he went to Germany, where he today is attacking the US. Senator HICKENLOOPER then asked if the US was a target for Communism, and Mr, BUIENZ he added, in answered that it was and that 1t had been since 1945 and then fact, since 1934, when the Commmnists formulated their policy - the plan then to drive the US out of the Philippines and out of the Pacific. Senator HICKEN- LOOPER then asked if Mr. BUDENZ knew that LATTIMORE was assigned to handle Communist activities on the West Coast. Mr. BUTENZ answered "that was where he worked" and then he said he was: also Editor of "Pacific Affairs" during that time. Mr, BUDENZ was asked if the Communist apparatus was divided into two classes and he said that he could best answer that question by comparing the Communist apparatus to a tree, for example, he said the rogts could be. compared the underground and to such members as EISIER and] PETERS, who sent WHITTAKER CHAMBERS to Washington to steal State Department documents . Mr. BUIENZ said the open Party could be compared to the trunk of the tree, and he mentioned that names like BROWDER and his own, who were open Party member s, could be so classified in this regard. He stated that the men and women member of the CP could be compared to the branches, that through the branches their = information was obtained and instructions issued from the roots 0 te , vr. BUTENZ was then asked if be new of any instances where renters of the CP had gone underground, He mentioned Dr. NORMAN BETHUNE (ph) from etic a oc ee ee Nae MOT LATE EET TT eT em i ee erp lili ante A ie aoe Abie eee co