Show OR W ON Spy Disclosures FTER J. J Ed Edgar gar Hoovers Hoover's AFTER lengthy session with the senate senate senate sen sen- ate appropriations committee regardIng regarding regarding re re- re- re garding bomb A-bomb leaks newspapers reported that senators left the meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing ashen faced over the dIsI dis dIs- I closures I Here is what Hoover said to cause those ashen faces Hoover dramatically reported that subversive activities in the United States are at an time all high worse high worse than during the war He also revealed that Communists Communists Communists Com Com- arc doing away with party I cards in order to prevent detection detection detec detec- tion and conviction Instead they I identify each cach other by word of mouth Hoover told the senators that Communists were making a special special special cial attempt to Infiltrate into strategic strategic strategic stra stra- industries such as telegraph telephone and the manufacture of electrical equipment Asked pointblank pointblank pointblank point- point blank by the senators whether there was a spy ring inside the government government government gov gov- Hoover answered no The head man G-man complained that Elizabeth Bentleys Bentley's sensational sensational sensational sensa sensa- disclosures two ye years rs ago ao had been premature and that as a L result the FBI lost many sources tha that had been carefully carefully care care- fully tully planted for 10 years inside the Communist party Listening to Hoover as he testified testified fied was Sen Homer Ferguson of Michigan who was partly responsible responsible responsible re re- re- re for the Bentley dis dis- closures Ferguson Ferguso together with Congressman J. J Parnell Thomas then chairman of the un-American un activities committee heard about Miss Bentley in connection with the Communist treason trial being prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared in New York and jumped the gun on the justice department In order to cop the news headlines i ith th they y called Miss Bentley before their then committees and smeared her testimony all allover over the front pages New Employees Needed Hoover was test testifying ying in order to secure appropriations for about 70 new employees He illustrated the work of his men G-men by telling how during the first trial of Alger Hiss the FBI was unable to locate Hiss Hiss' maid All Mrs Chambers could remember about the maid was her name Mary l However after the first trial Mrs Chambers dug up a rough sketch she had made of the maid gave it to the FBI and after honeycombing Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore Balti Balti- more and using only this sketchy evidence finally the men G-men located the maid Hoover told the senators that Dr Klaus Fuchs had access to every atomic secret in the United States and was even in inon inon inon on the final critical assembly of the A This was the most top secret phase of the Manhattan project Hoover testified at machine gun speed throughout the door closed session Here are some of the figures fit fig ll- ll ures he rattled off regarding crime in the USA U.S.A. Last year major crimes committed In the entire entire entire en en- tire country the big increases since 1941 have been per cent more aggravated assaults per cent more rapes per cent more burglaries per cent more robberies 73 per cent more larceny However murder has dropped 07 per cent since 1941 manslaughter er has decreased 55 per cent and auto thefts per cent The FBI he said had a record of per percent percent percent cent convictions last year How Fuchs Worked He Here is th the in which background ur Dr Klaus lUChS Fuchs arrested as a Russian spy in London worked inthe Inthe in inthe the US U.S. during the war Los Alamos where he was stationed stationed stationed sta sta- was unlike all the other atomic installations installation and not com com- In other words scientists did not work in secret compartments ts but were familiar with each others other's work There were some scientists at Los Alamos i f h t 1 h o ui u w u e t un o colony numbered numbered num num- about 60 60 20 20 British two Swiss 10 German refugees and some Italians Sir James Chadwick headed the British delegation Fuchs was not considered on the first team but rather on the second Since there was no compartmentalization his exact scientific standing made h no difference as far lar as collecting data was concerned Fuchs Fuch's friends recall that he first worked on atomic matters in Canada Canada Canada Cana Cana- da at the Chalk river plant in northern northern north north- em ern Ontario According to British intelligence Klaus Fuchs came to Britain from Germany in hi 1932 as an Nazi anti-Nazi refugee on orders from Moscow Fuchs' Fuchs instructions were to work his way into British scientific cir cir- d cles es As a result he became a British citizen knew every secret of the bomb A-bomb Including the exact size to the critical mass that makes an explosive and even the secret of the detonator Fuchs also knew about the H- H bomb which our scientists tried to produce before they got the AI A- A bomb I I t |