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ext of Hull's: MA Pro-Soviet ‘ote Revealed Truman and Aides Kept Secret 6 Years By WILLARD EDWARDS A secret wurtime cable, one of re top exhibits in the Amerasia ‘tolen documents scandal, ‘o ght last night. Dated July 28, 1044, and hidden for six years by ne Truman administration for yovioeus reasons, the document ‘ares pro-Soviet influence in the Sate department at top levels. The cable is marked “Hull to Chuneking” and is a confidential vegsage to the American ambas- «ador in China. Cordell Hull, then ‘ate secretary, resigned in No .“mber 1944. Now ailing, he was not available for comment on whether he authorized the dis- patch, which bore his name, with ils startling implications. Amerasia Was Quoted At the tune the message was sent, John Carter Vincent, now minister to Switzerland, was ead of the office of Chinese af- ‘aira, Alger Hiss, convicted re- cently of perjury to conceal ‘esplunage, vas deputy director of -pecint polttical ‘affairs. Dean Aghesen was assistant secretary of sta oT . a enald The dispatch quoted the “pro- Soviet magazine, Amerasia, in ou lining policy for China and Japan. Earl Browder, then head“of the ' Comraunist party, had a hand in the founding of Amerasia. Philip Jaffe, its editor, was arrested less than a year later for the theft of hundreds of secret documents jrom government departments. He ifinally pleaded guilty but received the light penalty of a $2,500 tine \‘n g deal with the Justice depart- I ment into which an investigation was recently reopened. The contents of the cable sup- (ports Communist leader Browder’s ‘boast before a congressional com- tnittee recently that he was @ war: time White House agent, securing ‘information from Chinese Com- munists which he passed on to the late President Roosevelt. Was State ‘Textbook’ The message also shed light on testimony before a House commit- ltee in 1946 that Amerasia was circulated in the State and other departments as ‘an important textbook.” The Hull message was one of {1.700 secret government papers ‘locked from the public gaze since they were seized by the FBI in 1945 in the offices of Amerasia in ‘New York City. A huge photostat- ‘ing apparatus was discevered and investigators reported there was no doubt that the Magazine was being used to funnel a constant ‘stream of confidential papers to [Soviet Russia. Jaffe and five others, including ltwo State department officials, ‘John S. Service and Emmanuel Larsen, were arrested in what the FBI termed an “airtight” case. Seven months jater, all six were f{zee. TW9 had been fined and the (Turn to Page 4, Col. i) “ i 4-26 Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen. Tracy Harbo Belmont Mokr mot. Bens 2OLG. Je Gin — Nease Gandy Secret Hull Cabie Bares Amerasia ft, 4 1s LTRs Oe (Continued from First Page) four other cases were dropped by the Justice department. This paper learned the text of the Hull document shortly after James M. McInerney, chief of the Justice department's criminal di- vision, told reporters he had studied all the documents in the Amerasia case and denied they included one, bearing the signa- ture of Hull. plugging Amerasia as an authoritative policy source. The “Hull to Chungking” cable follows: “July issue of Amerasia sug- gests possibility of using Japanese Susomo Okano in the role of ‘Tito of Japan’ to help Japanese people gery, to establish a government which he will discard aggression and the present ruling oligarchy. “The magazine however voices tat! uncertainty as to whether the - __ United States State department , "7 will support the program advo- o Ee NOT | PE =>"RDED : 1952 y % * BED - 7 cated by Okano and his followers or will prefer to favor the so- #5 FEB called liberal elements in Japan’s | present ruling class. Red Tieup Plan Cited - “The same issue proposed that the opposition to Japan through- out eastern China should be strengthened by the Allies through ' establishing a close working rela- tionship with the guerrilla Com: | munist forces now operating be- hind the Japanese lines and to bolster the activities with material and financial aid. eee oe Page “Times-Herald fe S° Star Ed tyon “Amerasia advocates that the! Wash. Post _ silles follow the policy adopted . oward the guerrilla group of} Yuroslavia where political consid-' | Wash. News — ations were eventually super: teed by military necetety-—" _ Wash. Star 4 [€ 4 N