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Ex-0SS Agent. Links Big Shot To Amerasia Raider Discloses. Memo on ‘Bomb’ Fv International News service Frank Bieleski, who made the. origina?” Ameiasia raid, charged; yesterday that the case involves an “inicrnationaly famous” figure who “towers head and shoulder” above any individual | yet named in the affair. | Bielaski. former agent of the! Office of Strategic Services, de- clared that the “Hiss-Chambers ; affair is mere chicken feed com-! pared with Amerasia.” ' Dafa on “New Bomb” Scores of secret government documents were found by Bielaski in the oftice of the magazine Almerasia. which has been charged with supparting the Communist | line, The ex-OSS official declared, in. a televised “Meet the Press" in. | tervicw, that among documents he found in Amerasia’s office at} the time of the raid, was @ type- |; written memorandum on the “new, bomb.” | He sald this memo was unsigned | and on regular rough copy paper, along with two others-—one de--. scribing the bombing pattern for fapan and the other outlining the roetiion of the Japanese fleet be- fore the battle of Leyte. H Stx persans, including exrcer! diplomal John 8. Service, were as, rested as a result of the Ameresi' caae, but only editor Philip Jaf: and his assistant, Emanuel ee ram. Wweic, convicted, fined §2,500, Larsen std —— eee a feo Sislen Papers. . Service, who is currently under-| ‘going a new federal Joyalty check, | Was arrested but was not indicted. Bielaski said he found 3,000 stolen documents in the Amer: asia magazine office, and they had been stolen in @ period of three months. He said: “At that rate, it was posssible for Amerasia to have a copy of, rast a every decument the State wrote in connection with the Far East.” The former OSS official said the “internationally famous” in- dividual he described as linked with Amerasia “does not work for; the government.” Bielaski de- , (turn to Page Z, Col. 2) E x-OSS Agent] Links Big Shots To Amerasia (Continued fram First Paget ‘clined to say whether the indi- ‘vidual ever had been a govern: “ment official. : Bielaski has appeared at a/ closed-door session of the Tydings: (Senate committee probing the icharges of Sen. McCarthy (R) of Wisconsin that Communists have } infiltrated the State department. . He declined yesterday to di-| ‘vulge any of his testimony before’ ‘the Tydings group, which at the itime shed no light upan what he. itold the committee, although Mc-’ [Carthy—not a committee mem- 'ber—said the testimony dealt .With the atom bomb. Bieliski said thet if the Amer- {asia case were reopened in a congressional investigation or ‘otherwise it would “expose and, drive” Communists out of the Staie department. ; | 1 FBI Agents Not Called ' Bielaski listed six active and former G-men he said were not called before the grand jury when it probed Amerasia. He seid that would he “glad” to _eatily a ai | ahy Mme. _ "3 1982 | Those he listed werg J. Lewis William Dunne, or New | Ames. York: Joseph Garvey, Robert Brownell, of Washington, Eugene. ‘Calder, of Ypsilanti, Mich., and | Daniel O'Connor. Bielaski was asked why the Amerasia case was “hushed up”, by the government at the time! ) it was braken, He replied: , “There are too many people ‘who believe a pledge of silence ‘to @ government department is, “more important than the oath of| allegiance to the government.” | Bielaski said that 40 stolen | .FBI documents were found in the | /Larsen’s apartment. \ ‘Cites Fingerprints He also stated that fingerprints on at jeast one of the Amerasia tiocuments were enough to con- vict a government official of pez- Jury." om ‘" In discussing the “new bomb memorandum, Bielaski said he jme not remember its contents too clearly, but could recall no refer-. ence to the ator: bomb, which at the thme of the raid had not yet blasted Nagasaki and Hiroshima. | Bielsaki was ask™i whether | convicted perjurer Alger Hiss had | any connection with. the Amer- asia Case. He replied that Hiss was not’ j connected with this case but ‘added: “T had determined for myself that he was a Communist, how: ever, about the time of the United Nations charter meeting in San Francisco in 1945." ; Hiss was secretary of the con- ‘fer which drew. up ‘shatter OF the United Nations. “t . lay va - . . NOT RECORDED 1} U/Times-Hera N.Y. Mirror Date: Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele. Nease Gandy | | | Room 45 FEB 1952 “Y I~SE QE Wash. Post Wash. News _ Wash. Star _—