Show Former U. U S. S State Accused Of Slipping Secrets to Commie Agent iI i iI I I I Witness Refuses to Answer I Charge of House WASHINGTON Dec 9 UP Henry P-Henry Henry Julian Wadleigh a f former for former r- r mer state department was put on the stand in the congressional spy hearings Thursday and accused of slipping secret government papers to a onetime Red agent The accusation came when Rep Nixon R. R Cal r read ad hitherto hitherto hitherto hith hith- erto secret testimony by Whittaker Chambers confessed former fonner courier for a Communist spy ring Wadleigh himself refused to say whether he ever gave restricted documents to Chambers or to Alger Alger Alger Al- Al ger Hiss former state department official Chambers the house committee on un-American un activities now has disclosed has named three men menas menas menas as sources of secret documents They are Hiss who has denied it Wadleigh and a man whose name has not yet et been made public The house group has been tryIng trying try try- ing to locate the third man and him as a witness but has been unable to find him Thursdays Thursday's hearings followed a sharp exchange between President Truman and the committee mem mem- bers Drags Out Herring Mr Truman at a news conference conference conference confer confer- ence again called caned the hearings a ared ared ared red herring and said the committee com corn is a dead one Nixon fired back that the tithe pre presidents president's presidents president's ident's i- i dents dent's statement is a flagrant flaunting of the national interests of the people Acting Chairman R. R S. S D. D said he thinks the president is wrong about th the committees committee's being dead After preliminary questioning o of Wadleigh Nixon read from testimony test mony many he said Chambers Chambers' gave to toan toan toan an un-American un activities subcommittee subcommittee in New York last Monday night In it named Chambers ch Wadleigh as an active acU source of document he said w were rc obtained from state stat department files nes Chambers Chambers' Testimony A part of ot Chambers Chambers' testimony went in this manner I Nixon Mr Chambers I will wil now hand you photographs and documents made from microfilms given this committee by you Are these documents you are examining examining ing marked from the state department department department depart depart- ment and do they bear state department department department de de- de- de stamps Chambers Yes From the nature nature nature na na- na- na ture of these documents I believe they are from those given me by Alger Hiss There was another active source in the trade division of the state department and it is possible some of these documents were received from him NL Nixon on Will Vill you name this source of contact Chambers Yes Julian Wad Wad- leigh Wadleigh now unemployed anc and living near Vienna Va testified that he had had access to restricted restrict restrict- ed or confidential papers of some kinds only while white in government service from 1936 to 1943 Poses Question Did you ever turn over to Unauthorized unauthorized unauthorized un un- authorized persons any re restricted inform information whatsoever Louis Russell committee investigator asked Wadleigh refused to answer on the ground the answer might in incriminate incriminate incriminate in- in criminate him That was his answer too when Russell asked whether he Had acquired any animosity against Chambers as a a. result of reading newspaper accounts of the spy case Would identify a picture of Chamb Chambers rs Had become acquainted with Alger Hiss while work working ng in the state department Ever had seen seen a restricted document document document docu docu- ment dated January 8 1938 and signed by Harry C. C Hawkins s a. a man Wadleigh said was one of his superiors in the department Ever furnished restricted documents documents documents docu docu- ments or confidential information to anyone in the state department or not employed in the state department department de- de while he himself worked there here Knew v of any Individual ever ever identified himself t to you you as as a aSee aSee See SeePage Page 7 Column 1 vr r 11 d r 2 A I Julian ian Wadleigh Accused of handing out secrets to Reds rober Grills lew ew Witness r. r Continued from Page PaJe One oviet riet agent or an an agent ent of the soviet viet government I- I Turned over o any restricted paI papers pa- pa I feers Chambers or Hiss ers to F pers Listens to Refusal k Acting Chairman listened and remarked re- re to to the refusal to answer marked Wadleigh serious charges have made against ag you I now en these charges be read into nest public record These charges e e ve e been sworn vorn to before the sub sub- littee Wadleigh answered with a flat asked whether when he was HU p 0 ever has been a Corn Com e is is' or munis t com I Uneasy nervous snorting cig- cig gret ret ret smoke through his IS nose the I I J 44 old year y yat old ear W Wad a d 1 e I g h peered rimmed glasses glasser h horned at at Louis Russell cO committee in investigator investigator in- in r who was firing questions questions ques ques- a at t himIn him tf f In In Inthe the state department Wad Wad- said he was in the division ot of trade agreements at first then iz the office of Leo special cial ecial assistant to the secretary t t state and in 1943 he was on mission sent by the department detriment de de- de- de he said he was pith ith th U UN N R R A United Nations Relief elief elie and Rehabilitation admin- admin and with the Italian government emment as an economist JIn In m the exchange with the White ouse ouse lundt 1 said that it was conceivable to him that Mr Truan Tru Tru- an would repeat the red herring remark A I Challenges Truman i If he considers the tIle lon on an a red herring said I 1 challenge him to authorize us to p publish the documents in toto fri the press The state depart depart- says they are so startling that to release them even now I Mould imperil the national se se- se If this is a red herring lets publish them f Mr Ir Truman's remarks were to toa toI a I news conference and were made madem m response to questions He said that that so far as the stolen docu- docu meats ments are concerned Attorney General Clark will see that the ifa is enforced I r In In summary Mr Truman's expressed expressed expressed ex ex- pressed attitude toward the committees committees committee's com- com activities was this If the committee members were in dead earnest about protecting the tIle country country coun- coun try they would have turned what they have found over to Clark rather ferather than making headlines I with it J RHe He He still thinks the hearings are area a red herring and that politics are are a motive in the Republican Republican- do committees committee's actions Ite t. t Made Slade in Campaign The red herring charge is one ti Truman T. first flung back during dur- dur lag ing the campaign He c contended ithen tJ then n that the purpose of the hear- hear J gs was to divert attention from fromi i what he called the G 0 O P congress' congress failure allure re to deal with the high cost l cf mg ib and other problems Mr r. r Truman did not elaborate on cn on his de description of the com- com as a dead one When re reporters reporters re- re porters potters tried to draw him out on onI I that t he told them to see Rep Sam Sani Rayburn D. D Tex Tee who is expected to be speaker of ot the house in the n new w Democratic con trolled trolled congress The plain implication implication implication cation appeared to be that Mr Truman an does not believe b the house will continue the committees committee's life F l J On that commented c v If If I can sense the feeling of the American people it wont won't DC De DeI I i dead ead after congress votes on its activities 1 J Other Developments i S Other developments surround- surround Wf g the spy inquiry fl l. The committee has been told toldo o far ar that the state department Ha i found 65 documents which Cud be released now without I bu hurting g national security or the p Public bUc Interest These probably will w iU be made public The state Department is continuing to check checko o other er papers located the by com- com lZ ltee 2 Rep Rankin D D. D Miss said Alex ex M. M Campbell chief of the j Justice Uce departments department's criminal divi- divi ii lon has written the committee letter tor trying to stop the com- com from hearing bearing witnesses they wey ey want to use themselves 1 A grand jury in New York is looking Into Communist espionage Rankin said Campbell is trying to interfere with the committee and this Is asininely stupid Ran Rankin kin also told reporters people are arc getting belting sick and tired of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt's fulminations fulminations ful against the committee in broadcasts from Paris Mrs Roosevelt Is an American delegate I at t the e U U. N N. N meetings there Background Acts Also in the background was 1 A members member's charge that the thc administration 1 Is trying to si si 5 i- i lence the hoU house c un-American un activities activities activities ac ac- ac- ac committee 2 Testimony that many more than ten Soviet spy rings either cither have va been or still are operating in this country called the thc committee into closed door session Thursday mornIng morning morning morn- morn Ing to map a up speed-up strategy for forthe forthe forthe the hearings He said additional night sessions will be held if needed to wind ind up the thc inquiry It was waR at a meeting Wednesday night that Russian-born Russian Isaac Don Levine a Levine a repeat out witness witness out outlined lined his estimate of the extent of Russian espionage in this country coun coun- try Was Vas Go Between Levine now an American citizen citizen citi citi- I zen was the go-between go for Chambers Chambers Chambers Cham Cham- bers when the admitted former Communist t courier decided to take his story to the thc government In 1939 two 1939 two years after breaking Ing with the Reds From Wednesday nights night's session session session ses ses- sion too came the blast by Rep Nixon R. R Cal at what he called administration efforts to silence this committee Nixon said the justice depart depart- ment has made it very clear It I does docs not want the house group to I hear any witnesses slated to testify testify testify tes tes- tes- tes before the special federal grand jury in New York which reopened its inquiry into Communist Communist Communist spy activities as a result of the Chambers disclosures Calling it certain that the grand jury will indict Chambers for perjury Nixon said this action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion will make it Impossible for forthe forthe forthe the jury to get at persons who worked with Chambers because I the chief witness will b ba be an In Indicted Indicted indicted in- in perjurer Despite the efforts of the administration administration administration ad ad- ministration to silence this this' committee committee committee com com- we have our duty to continue continue continue con con- our Investigation he said Levine Wednesday nights night's only witness is editor of the magazine Plain Talk which he Identified as Communist anti and antiFascist antiFascist Fas anti cist Levine detailed his efforts to help Chambers bring the spy ring story to the attention of the late President Roosevelt at the outbreak outbreak outbreak out out- break of war in September 1939 He described Chambers as a pa s 's I fe-I I American trying to safeguard safe safe- I guard American secrets against leaks to Soviet agents I At a conference he arranged i with Adolf A A. Berle Jr then assistant assistant assistant as as- secretary of state Levine I said Chambers named Hiss among others as having previously passed highly valuable papers to him for relay to Moscow But Levine said no action was taken to dry up the leaks In Safe Keeping Keepin I In answer to committee questions questions questions ques ques- Levine said Chambers told 1 I him the dD documentary Y proof f of 01 his charges was in safe keeping as Insurance He told me Levine said they were being kept in a safe place for trading purposes with the theo o 0 G P U Russian secret police or the Soviet government In the event vent he or his wife or children met with any horror such as kid kid- naping In the ev event nt of any horror Levine said Chambers told him the party who had the evidence could use it to expose the whole Soviet Sovie setup here |