Soviet Documentsays Fred Rose, MY:, Worked with Russianpolice
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Soviet Document Says Fred Rose, MY:, Worked With Russian Police Montreal, May 31 (Cp). - The Crown today read into the record In this directive. "Badeau"-iden of the conspiracy trial of Fred Rose tified as Durnford Smith (a. Durn evidence purporting to link the ford Smith faces charges of tom Labor-Progressive Member of Par-, plicity in connection with the es hament with the Russian secret ; pionage ring), was made the ob police. ' ject of a request that he get "som6 This came in the form of a docu- uranium N235." went, taken from files of the Rus-' the directivE sian But, cautioned Embassy in Ottawa by youngi which mentioned the National Re, Igor Gouzenko, who once served search' Council employee, "let hirr, as a secret cipher clerk there, be careful." which, said the Crown, gave an out- `let him line of the "If he can," it went on, espionage organization write in. detail. about the radium; zei up by Russia in Canada. plant," Gouzenko, testifying in a delib- producing erate, steary' voice, identified this Others Are Mentioned particular document as a, report to Others mentioned in the docu- Moscow from Col. Zabotin, Military ments were "Bacon." identified as Attache of the Soviet Embassy. It Halperin, and "Bagley," identified mentioned "Fred" which Gouzenko! as Mazerall. said was the cover name for Rose The defense, led by Joseph Cohen, and added that he was a "director i KC, made frequent objections to of the-- corporation" and was work- evidence offered by Gouzenko. ing with "neighbors" of 1924 . Raving lost a battle Thursday to "Neighbors," the witness explain- have his evidence declared unprivi- ed, meant the NKVD, or Russian Ieged because it enjoyed diplomatic secret police . Immunity, Mr . Cohen today put Refused to Destroy Paper forward an objection to the inclu- Gouzenko said Col. Zabotin had sion of documentary evidence on asked him to destroy this docu- the grounds of "extra- ment, a message to Moscow head- territorial-ity." quarters, in . August, 1945, but in- ` He did not press the point, but' stead he kept it and it was among said he would have- more to say' evidence turned over to the Gov- on It later-he merely wanted at ernment when the one-time cipher , this time to enter the objection clerk decided last autumn to re-,' which, in effect, was a renewal of veal his story of the alleged espi-- his argument that documentary nage' ring, ' evidence had been taken from Rus- prelimi- sian property in as much as it As made public at the the nary hearing of Rose last March' came from Russian Embassy and in the Royal Commission evi in Ottawa . dente in Ottawa, Gouzenko's story! was replete with detail and "cover" Hazerall Sentence Today names for various agents which the Ottawa, May 31 (CP) .Edward chief Crown prosecutor, Ron. Wilfred Maze 11, 30, former Na- Philippe Brais, identified for the benefit of the jury . The evidence purporting to link tional Research Council engineer, the 38-year-old Rose with Russia s will be sentenced tomorow, 10 days secret police furnished the only after his conviction on a, charge startling information of the day. of conspiring to communicate con- Otherwise, apart from continued fidential information to Russia. objections by teh defense of the Sentence will be .passed by Chief Gouzenko testimony on legal Justice J. C. McRuer of the Ontario grounds, the day's proceedings Supreme Court as the climax to a were little more than a procession 110-day trial which ended May 22 . o£ one document after another, ,all The trial, before a 12-man jury, previously made public, showing disclosed that Mazerall had agreed the type of iformation the Russian: ~to give information and that he were interested in and what they !had given two documents on radar. would like to get . The speed. trial of Capt. Gordon In one of these documents, head; Lunan, 30, the man to whom 1daz- ed "organizational directive foi, erall allegedly gave the reports, group `research,"' it was ordered was again adjourned today by that various agents should no( County Court Judge A, G. Mc- meet indoors, but on. the street, +Dougall. Tentatively, it was set separately and once a month. +for June 17. - "You must not keep the materia' at your home for one single night," ssaid the directive. "Wives trust not know that you are working and meeting their husbands,".