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nee epee f [ < . | | 2050 terial in it, and, second—and this is im- portant-t shows that the Stxte Depart- ment and the President had prepared material which was to be sent to a for- eign government. The file shows that before the materia] left th® Btate Depart- ment it Was in the hands of the Eremlin in Moscow. Do Senators follow me? The State Department's ofn investiga tive file shows that some segret material which was being transmitted to anothe nation, before it even left this countr for the othar aunties ah oved up in Bios wid OLOST COWUMLry, MICKreG 10 mats cow. 8o far, that ls not too significan However, the fille shows that this particu lar individual, who has beld one of the Most important positions at one of the listening posts in Europe, was shadowed, that he was found to have contacted Soviet agent, and that the Soviet agent was then followed to the Soviet Embassy, where the agent turned the material ove te the Soviet Embassy. Do Senators fol- low me? This is what the secret State Department fle shows: First, the papers get to Moscow in some mysterious man- see eete re Uuas sell ner, and, second, this individyal, who is pow one of our foreign ministers, con- tacts a Russian espionage agent, and that agent ts followed to the Russian Embassy, where the material is handed over. This is no secret to the State De- partment. Incidentally, J] might say that I prom- feed the press I would have coples of this material for their use. However, in view of the fact that I have nothing com- Pietely ready at this time, and must re- fer to the documents before me, which TI cannot turn over to the press, I do not have anything to give them. Iam sorry. I shall try, however, to give them now the material I have, and shall try to make the dates and places as clear as I can. ase in Piushing, ployed with OSS in 1942. In 1945 he was transferred to the State Department and assigned to Research and Intelli- ence. The Btate Department's fil hows that he is a member of a numbe: of Communist-front organizations, that his pals are known Communists. The file further shows that this fact admitted by him. The original report which this information is contained dated July 3, 1942. The security repo of Apri) 18, 1946, indicates that numer- ous witnesses, including college profes- sore and police officers in California, tes- tified he was a radical and a fellow trav eler. He was very friegd!y and sym pathetic toward Harry\ Bridges, and This individual was born R. _¥.,1n 1903. He was em-%) or the State Department to take any ac- The individual came to the ted States from Hungary in 1044. He was employed as a translator me script. writer for OWI, and later by Office of Internatfona! Information and ultural Affairs, The report of January ~ 1947, “ingéecates that he is an active mher af ea Mn neon mien embey ar a Communist front or [eet tion, and that he Jost his former job be- cause of his constant arguments in favor of communism. A former employer, ac- cording to the file, stated that this in- dividual boasted of being a member of nt also stated that this individual oasted of his Communist connections and argued that communism was au- perior to democracy. The fourth fn- 7 formant said that he constantly argued M@ politics, eod that communism was the Two of tle references on his application for citizenship were members of at least one Communtst-front organization and con- -tributors to Communist periodicals. An- other reference refused to recommend him, questioning his loyalty. and saying that be wasa Communist. Another ref- erence, of April 24, 1947, showed that this employee’s supervisor in the State De- partment felt he was a fellow-traveler. This individual has been contributing to the Hungarian Communist magarine, NO. XK. Various memoranda and reports by e State Department Security Agency in the files indicate that no one was found to question this employee's com- munistic connection and bellefs. BSE This case serves as a Very example of the failure on the part ifcal evetem for thie seuntry eGOal System Or tus COUNTS. tion even after conclusive evidence of a Person's Communist activity was shown by the State Department's own security agency. He was born in North Caroline in 1900. He was employed by the For- elgn Economic Administration from ugtst 1942, to August 1945, and was then transferred to the State Depart- ment and placed d In- attention, Mr. , to the number of these tn- duals who succeeded in getting into Psearch and Intelligence. Research nd Intelligence, the Voice of America, Far Eastern Affairs seem to be the prime targets. - strongly opposed any move to deport t The report dated May 4, 1946, in this Bridges. The report also shows that he was also a close friend of Ralnh¥pried- man, secretary of the Communist Party in/California. Another security report, datet! November 13, 1946, quotes his as- sociates as saying that he favored the Chinese Communists in China and fa- vyored Russia in most respects. The State Departnrent officials them- selves, according to this report, describe him as being overly sympathetic to Rus- Bia and the Communist experiment. This Is all a part of the report. Another Government official said the individual frequently blamed the capitalists for all @man's file shows that eight persons, in- cluding six college professors at Harvard University and the University of Cali- fornia, agreed that this individual hes . strong communistic leanings, and that _ in their opinion he was elther a card- carrying member of the Communist Party or a fellow-traveler. That is the opinion of six professors at Harvard Uni- versity and the University of California. Bome of the opinions expressed by his associates might well be read. A professor at the University of California stated that he was acquainted with this individual since September the Communist Party. A third inform-. “Navy school during the war - gTades and for Communist activities. A he felt that Wiis «LLL ting money from the Communist Party, and the other students did alio, because they would say that this individual was not preaching communism for his health, but that it was a business with him: that he would not recommend this individual to the Government because he feels that he is a Communist. This individual was discharged from a for bad memorandum, dated May 15, 1946, from CBA to the Was of Controls, states Ww MIT WA WA wears ee that an “investigation discloses evidence of a material nature tending to affect ad- versely the Joyalty to the United States and its institutions.” This report re- veals that this individual ts unmistake- ably identified with communistic activi- ties. While the records of the Bureau of Naval Personne] show that he was given a special order discharge in March 37, 1042, under honorable conditions, evi- dence in his file, all of which is, of course, available to the Secretary of State, re- veals thet he was discharged hecusse it was found that he was an ardent student of and advocate of communism. A report, dated March 25, 1947, indi- cates that this individual had been re- teiving mail from the Soviet Embassy, as well as communistic publications. An official of a Weshington, D.C. univer- sity stated that he had hired this indi- vidual to conduct a class in Chinese, but later learned that he was closely con- nected with oommunistic groups on the west coast. Four members of the faculty at the University of California confirmed this individual’s communistic leanings. All of the above information was brought to the attention of the top officials in the State Department in a memorandum summarizing the case in 1947, with the recommendation that he be immediately discharged. The State Department re- fused to discharge him because it was not proven that he had committed any overt act. Subsequent to this time. this individual argued often and heatedly in - favor of a Communist regime in China. He admitted having been a subscriber to the Daily Worker. Let me repeat for the benefit of the Benate, the State Department refused to | discharge this individual because he had not been shown to have committed any overt act, despite the fact that the State Department's own security agency had in & report stated that he wai unmistak- ably identified with communistic activi- ties; despite the fact that he had been dicharged from a Navy school because he was an ardent student and advocate of communistic doctrine; despite the fact that he had been receiving mall from the Soviet Embassy, as well as being a -