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} i ee a ee oe ee ee ee -* to " a re “wth . ee eee ah . Tolson _ ——. , ——-__add 7 | \ lee _ tlavin Tichols Sle A> GD m mw 4 =. | hosen racy Tarbo - 3elmont_! *% , Aohbr Tele. Room__ mn Amerasia == at Justice Dept. and Tydings Commiifee By TREDERICK WOLTMAN Scriops-Howard Staff writer 4! ‘Two top officials of the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) today struck |. + ard: at the Justice Department and the q ydings committee for their handling of the SO Ale] ash : j Nor relibold wi euren, OSS Last week the commitige} an. B ocnarged = that : . nounced that members of its Iggal |. secmiby chile staff had questioned two of Bie- |; Tretnes investigators tried to “0 fl Jaski's OSS superiors in New York. get him to contradict testimony ine ee Pree rere ON her A of Frank Bielaski, the commit- was Major Gen. William J. Dono- . tee’s first wiiness in its Am- van, OSS chief, whose principal } aide was Col. Doering, now a mem- ber of the Donovan law firm. Gen- eral Donovan since left for London. Mr. van Beuren said two attor- neys for the Tydings committee, L. L. Tyler and Robert Heald, ques- tioned him for one-half to three- quarters of an hour about the OSS erasia inquiry. He upheld the Bielashi testimony. But d¢he investigators, he said, “seemed more interested in discrediting it than in elicit- ine information which would futher their investigation of discovery of the stolen Amerasia | “ the Amerasia case, documents. He described it as "a — !Lirueenart Cel, Cio C. Doering, pretty Casual dismissal of the af- chet execuive officer of OSS, Jair.’ termed “fantastic” und “ridiculeus" . . the Justice Department's charge, Questions Dealt With made last Friday, thal the OSS 1945 H H H raid ou Amerasia caused the “col- Bielaski Testimony lapse’ of the Amerasia prosecu- ti Then prey asked # series pr pes. tions. ions Which he said were designe “The OSS is no longer in exist ARCHBOLD VAN BEUREN 0. fad oul mf ne ee attr or ence,” he said, “so they're using us * oe —— isaltirm parts of the Bielas es- a as an escuse. And is a poor one, Timony. . . Thes're trying lo hide behind some- One concerned the OSS investi- | \ thing that isn’t there, If they gators testimony that, after the didi t proceed properly, it's met our Hiroshima atomic explosion, he re- fault.” | called having seen a document in . . the Amerasia filed marked “A [ Looking for Way Out Bombing Plan for Japan.” Mr. van + ge » ‘ Beuren was asked if Mr. Bielaski of Finding Whitewash had mentioned that to him before Page The depa:tinent’s attempt to pin | telling it to a newspaperman. the blame on OSS “doesn’t sur: Mr. van Beuren auswered that prise ime,” Mr. Van Beuren de- his subordinate had told him about brald tlared, “since the Tydings commit- it several years ago, tee seems to be jooking for a way Another question concerned Mr. owl of finding there was a white- Tielaski’s testimony that, during pet __ wash by the Justice Department.” aj, ie 143 the Amerasia raid, he saw an ete } ~ It was Mr. Biclaski who, as OS DEXED . velope containing top Navy secrets 7 : chiel investizator, ied the Amerasia . and bearing the name of a proml- WE raid that uncovered hundreds of ; (34 ‘ neat writer. — stulen seeret Government docu- (oi 5 ——aopeD \ Mr. van Beuren was asked when meents. He testified about it early R Sale ; ‘ ab last month in an executive session fio NOT REC “or (Continued son Page Al) + year ~~ the, Tydings committecs——iiis 45 FEB 1952 - a eres sng never was made vublic. _. ~ N.Y. Mirror —_—_ oor ooo" f wan a Ln, : oo 7 ¥ ‘4 : + than cese Ly A iad AY Date: .. ~