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Vol. 10, No. 12 (Broadcast 448) March 23, 1964 Dallas, Texas
DAN SMOOT COMMUNIST SPIES IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT On February 4, 1964, Yuri Nossenko (high-ranking Soviet secret police official attending the Geneva Disarmament Conference as an "adviser" to the Soviet delegation) disappeared. Six days later, it was revealed that he had defected and had been granted asylum iri the United States.'" He is virtually in the custody of the Central Intelligence Agency and of the State Department; but members of Congress are concerned about his personal safety, because he is said to have given information about Soviet espionage agents inside the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Departments'' Nossenko revealed that some employees of United States, French, and British diplomatic and in telligence agencies are members of five Soviet spy rings operating throughout the "Western Hemi sphere, and that certain American businessmen, newspapermen, scientists, and others are also undercover communist spies. Nossenko has named names and given details. One of the five com munist spy rings allegedly operates in a very sensitive agency of the United States government.'-' Investigating committees of Congress have not yet been permitted to question Nossenko; and the Johnson administration apparently has done nothing about the information offered. The Soviets fear that Yuri Nossenko may give the West documents (such as cables from Mos cow to Soviet delegates at the disarmament conference in Geneva) proving that Soviet disarma- nient proposals are designed merely to deceive gullible liberals and to provide propaganda for the Soviets."' r r o To date, the most important result of the Nossenko Case is that it helped uncover an affair ^ ich the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations had concealed from Congress and cpublic for almost four years —an affair centering around a man who, for his own protection, ^scs the pseudonymn "Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Goleniewski." ^In September, 1958, Jacob D. Beam (U. S. Ambassador to communist Poland) began what State cpartment officials called "one of our more serious dialogues with a red Chinese delegation."'"
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Page 89 What the State Departmenl: ^gotiating with Soviets than any whom Goleniewski himself knew^ Chinese communists abouq and why com- about. Among these, was one American official munist Poland was chosen 3lace, have not in Poland, so important to the Soviets that they been disclosed. took a bold step to prevent his exposure.'"' The Soviets (intensely Ictufio about the ne- In i960, the Soviets themselves arranged to ex gotiations) got ten United Sl ai rines and four pose Irwin Scarbeck, a minor U. S. diplomat, who male members of the U. S. in Poland in- had become involved with Urszula Maria Discher volved with Polish women, s6 tbiat they could be a female communist agent. Obviously, the Soviets blackmailed for informatio f j , jwife of one hoped that the "surfacing" (exposure) of Scar- American diplomat in Waisay was seduced by beck would deceive Americans into thinking they an agent of the Sovietsecret plQli|ce. had exposed theentire communist operation inside A very high official of| the !5oM secret police the United States Embassy. If, thinking this, Amer (a Polish national, working for Soviet KGB icans stopped their investigation, the Soviets' most in Poland) called on an Ametjicj CIA agent in important undercover agent in the Embassy would Warsaw, saying he wanted tci Page 90 In 1961, during the early months of tire Ken- , nedy administration, investigators submitted their nzing column, published March 11, 1964 Mr evidence to Attorney General Robert F. Ken Richards said; ' nedy. High officialdom in Washington ruled that there would be no prosecution against "E.S.," and of Jhfthe !!°''i!i°^htgh-levelkeepingAmericanburiedturncoatforever theandstorylhis' ordered that the case never be mentioned to any Ainerican mistress, who worked in the Warsaw one, not even to members of Congress. "E.S." was ab/n'/A " P"™'' motives behind thel permitted to resign quietly from the State Depart almost desperate attempts of the State Depart- ment, pick up his passport, and depart for Europe GoRn'* ^""^"'§once Agency to keep leaving his udfe in the United States. His brunette Imer/alInternal Securityf Subcommittee.before the Senate mistress (also an employee of the State Depart reasons behind these attempts are fear ment who had been working with "E S" in the ; US^ Embassy at Warsaw) had been recalled to ^he KGB (Soyet Secret Police),Americans12 workingin the Statefor Washington for questioning. When "E.S." left Department four m the CIA and three ih the the United States, his mistress obtained apassport U. o. scientific laboratories." . and departed, for pernranem residence in Europe Mr. Richards has not identified the 19 Ameri : as an American employed there.'" cans whom Goleniewski has thus far named as undercover communist spies in government iobs-( Shortly after the defector Goleniewski waT but, on March 5, 1964, Eesti Sona ("Free brought to the United States, he was taken to a Estonian Word"), an Estonian-language news room for his first secret conference with CIA paper published at Estonia House, 243 East 34th! agents. When he walked into the room, he recog- Street, New York, New York, named two of them. mzed an undercover communist in the group of I Will not repeat the names because I have no cor-j American investigators who were to query him robatmg evidence. One of the two had an im-j /I about communist spieshnside the American gov portant ambassadorial post under President Ken-I ernment Scared-, Goleniewski feighed illness and' nedy. The other was an Assistant Secretary of departed. Later, he reported the fact to a CIA ' State, whom President Johnson has praised highly agent whom he trusted. The undercover comi^Snist implying that he may also be appointed an am PP red. Goleniewski never saw him again, and bassador. ooes not know his real name/''' It has been obvious for years that communists, hidden mkey government jobs, have been direct ing American foreign policy. Look at the known ceal ''n administration managed to con- record of communists in government. Examine aiau information about Goleniewski and the also the consequences of American foreign policy. I96n/.uhad /•been totally concealedGoleniewskisfromdefection'inthe public, Air over the world has fielped commnn.^ts canhirp n^Hnnc ous p defection in 1964 was conspicu- ^ample: Algeria. Camhodia. Chinn rnh. nform .Nossenko matter •for-more ghina. Indonesia. Lao.s North V.Vtnfim Tihrt nittee heardh'°"j about the olderInternalGoleniewskiSecurity Suhcom-.tase. ^anzibkr!"" Nnt_;. &mehow, Guy Richards, reporter for The New nations in Europ^ Irom tne tlaltic tn i-hp which Anmum pmicy helped co'^unijts^ aa learned a little of what quer ana enclave rouowing World War HlAnd »ear/^ articles, published not-ro mention many other natinrr;. IiTp 'epu/ / • ^^vealed to whu^c governments. onTestmnglvDrn^^rprfran 'ther"";emeu ski case. In a follow-up,'he broad summa-outlines can foreign policy, into the arms ofcommiint<;hc Pag-e 91 fli and into hatred of America! On th^ other hand, oath, that he had ever been a communist or Soviet 1defy anyone to name one nation which'American espionage agent. ca foreign policy has wrenched from communist con tit These developments prepared the way for the trol or led intostronger friendship for America- "McCarthy era." In February, 1950, the late Sen although our policy has been "justified" with ar- ator Joseph R. McCarthy (Republican, Wiscon gumerits that it would save the world from com- sin) made his first public speech about communists ot munis/n, and has cost American taxpaj'ers so many rii ingovernment, especially in theState Department, If' billions of dollars that our national jgovernment The "McCarthy era" began on that day and lasted, is on the verge of bankruptcy. roughly, until November, 1954, when the United ex States Senate passed a resolution condemning Wi Senator McCarthy. Senator McCarthy died in the in Record of Communists spring of 1957. to in Government. wl •c JVIcCarthy and his staff did a considerable m ev amount of original investigation concerning com On November 27, 1945, the FBI sent to Harry munist infiltration into government; but Mc S Truman a report revealing that Elizabeth Bent- Carthy's essential role was thepublicizing of cases es ley (a Soviet spy for 11 years) had|voluotarily which i^ncies of government knew about but ex given details about Soviet espionage rjngs perat- would pot act upon. 'hz ing inside sensitive agencies of the U. S. gOvern- t of ment. Among the undercover commupist spies The *most important investigation of commu bi named by Bentley were; | nism inigovernment was conducted by the Senate- fi. Internal Security Subcommittee. In 1951 and 1952, m Harry Dexter White — Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Harold Glasser, Nathan Giegory this Subcommittee (under the chatrmansliip ot Silvermaster, and William Taylor — Treasury Senator Pat McCarran, Nevada Demoorat'l invfsti.- Sc Department; Lauchlin Currie — Adrainist ative g^ed the Institute of pS'tic Relations^ reveal- VC Assistant ^o the President of the United i tates; ing that the tax-exempt IFR^^s a transmission Robert TJalbot Miller III —Slate Depart nent; belt for Soviet propaganda in the United States; A, Georgp Silverman — War Department; U. S. Army Air Force Major William L. Ullman — that many of its members and associates were in volved ir^ Soviet espionage; and that communists ^ stationed at the Pentagon; Maurice | Hal])erin, er Julius J. Joseph, Major Duncan Lee, llelen who controlled the IPR had had a profound, if > Se Tenney, and Donald Wheeler — Office of Stra not controlling, influence on American policy in 1 ha tegic Services;. Edward Fitzgerald, Henry Mag- the Far East. The IPR supported propaganda in I doff, Victor Perlo, and William Remington — or War Production Board; Willard Park and Bern the American press, and decisions by our govern- | Tl ard Redmont — Office of the Coordinator of ment, which discredited and crippled our ally, I di Inter-American Affairs; Michael Greenbe g« — Chiang Kai-shek, and kelped commUffiyts conquei = ar Foreign Economic Administration; Sol Lt shin- i or sky and George Perazich — United Nation ; Re lief and Rehabilitation Administration; Claries Ifi 1953, Senator William E. Jenner (Republi- ; St Kramer —• investigatorJor the Kilgore Comn ittee can. I-wgrana) succeeded Sendtfll* IVIcCarran as ; ca of the U. S. Senate.*^' •chairrtSrToFthe Senate internal jjecunty Subcom- j The information supplied by Elizabeth Bentley mittee,'*and initiated an inviiiJCiglitlon concerning pe was supplemented and corroborated by Whit aker "Interlocking Subversion in Government Depart St Chambers and others. A dramatic result was the ments." On July 30, 1953, Senator Jenner fileil H Hiss case. Alger Hiss eventually went: to p ison an interim report, from which the following is (1950) for committing perjury'by" denying, under extracted; Page 92 T ic Soviet international organization has earned on a successful and important penetra was selected to inaugurate a professorship pro gram under which American professors will lecr tion of the United States Government and this ture in Latin America and Latin American pro penetration has not been fully exposed fessors will come here for the same purpose ... "Members of this conspiracy helped to get each "Dr. Oppenheimer went to Mexico the first other into Government, helped each other to week in June for about 10 days and will leave rise III Government and protected each other shortly for Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Uraguay. from exposure .... spending a week or so lecturing in each country. "Powerful groups and individuals within the executive branch were at work obstructing and "Now Dr. Oppenheimer is the same man whose weakening the effort to eliminate Soviet agents security crcarance, alter extensive hearings and from positions in Government. reviews, was suspended on December 23. 1953. "Members of this conspiracy repeatedly swore On Jime 29, 1954, members of the Atomic to oaths denying Communist Party membership Lnergy Commission voted to deny him access to when seeking appointments, transfers, and pro restricted material. The AECs Personnel Secur motions and these falsifications have, in virtually ity Board ... established that a number of Com- every case, gone unpunished .... " munist Party officiafs between 1942 and- 1945 made statements to the Pffen Th.. ^ The Jenner committee revealed that two Soviet Oppenheimer was a member of the Communist espionage rings inside our government had been Party but that because of his position he could exposed, and that identified members of the rings not be active in the party, and that his name had been removed from office (despite efforts should be removed from the "Communist Party's of higher governmental officials to protect them); mailing list. w. . but policies and programs formulated by identi hadu made periodic establishedcontributionsthattoOppenheimer the Commu fied communists remained in effect after the com nist Party of between $500 and $1,000 each year munists were removed from government jobs. (lor 4 years ending in April 1942 ... . ^ The Tennpr committee revpMprl r^pinni.(^».ttajt^JaiOWn to he nppr.hni. in _ "Oppenheimer himself, under oath ... ad Washington, had never been mitted thatjieJiad_J^ed_to^£ciirity officers . .. ."'®> On April 3, 1963, the Atomic Energy Com mission announced that, with the express approval The two communist spy rings inside our gov of President Kennedy, Oppenheimer would be ernment have not yet been exposed; and. since the awarded the 1963 Enrico Fermi Award (a high ^enate .Slihrnmn.,>r..i. „ir honor which included agift of $50,000, not sub ^^ave hppn c.pnt'fiVar^|- rpmot/alc nf l7ninrni 1 ject to taxes)."'" On November 21, 1963, the White House announced that President Kermedy "T prn Liuiuuiumsts frr^m service. would personally make the award to Oppenheimer j. however, indications that notorious in- ividuals, forced out during the "McCarthy era," (on December 2)."'> On December 2, President "Qw roming- hark Space limitations permif-, Johnson made the formal presentation, uttering words of praise for Oppenheimer. This was the ^ few examples. On Tune ?6. 1961. Tlnfhprl . Representative Gordon Scherer fRepubli-^ same Oppenheimer who, in 1954, according to an Ohio), during a speech to the House said: official finding of the Atomic Energy Commis sion, was not entitled to the continued confidence Organization of American States, 60 of the Government," because of "fundamental de the United fects in his character," and because his "associa { es. IS supposed to be one of thegreat bulwarks tions with persons known by him to be commu jS mst Communist penetration of the Western nists had lasted "too long to be justified as merely ^eniisphere. the mtermirtent and accidental revival of earlier Rarly ihis month Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer friendships.""" Between 1954 and I963, Oppen- Page 93 heimer did nothing to justify an award, or restora- Assistant Secretary of State for Security) tion of confidence in him. ^ ™ T Elmer Dewey Hill (one of Reilly's division chiefs^ From 1939 to 1945. Lauchlin B. Curr e (a nat- lied under oath when questioned by the Senate m ruralized U. S. citizen, born in Noja Scotia) was Internal Security Subcommittee about their ban m \ Administrative Assistant to President P.oosevelt. dling of the "Otepka investigation." On NWeni- in He was also a member of aSoviet espionage ring. ber 8, 1963, the Subcommittee revealed that In 1950 (at the beginning of the "McCar hy era") Reilly and Hill, subpoenaed for additional testi Carrie went to Colombia. He married Colom mony, admitted (again under oath) the falsity bian and became acitizen of Colombia, forfeiting of testimony which they had given on July 9yi his American citizenship. On August; ^ The State Department put Reilly and Hill on "ad 6. 1961, ministrative leave."''"*' On November 18, both Richard Starnes, syndicated columnist, revealed thatLauchlin Curtis"is in the front ranks men were permitted to resign.'"" Obviously, they se of plan- are not to be prosecuted for perjury. in I^ners in Colombia whose task it viill tji :o spend R. American money allocated under t 10 new Dorn Al- Senate Subcommittee probing, in connection D liance for Progress." with the Otepka affair, disclosed information even more disquieting than any revealed by Otepka R. , .Currie co^uld. never have got this oh o : spend- himself. About the first of February, 1964, the ing Americarr tax money in CoTombia P the help (or, at least, approval) of old without Subcommittee discovered a memorandum which still in the U. S^Stat^De^artoent. ^!ongT friends had been submitted on June 27, 1956, by Scott ?ss, and McLeod (then Administrator of the State Depart re the public, ought :tit to know who thosemd friends ment's Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs — ca are.< now deceased). The old McLeod memorandum V( y - \says: re ! SI '^The recent Otepka case has unearthed > "On the department rolls are some 800 in- listurb- ' dividuals concerning whom the office of security in^ information about conditions in the, St ite De- has information which^ raises .. .. .questions as to w partment In March, 1963, Otto F. Otjepka (Chief possible past communist activity or associations, of the Evaluation Division of the Securitj 01 ^Office false statements, immoral conduct, homosexual o: of the State Department), in responjse to a sub- ity, intoxication, mental defects, etc. All ha.ve SI poena, testified before the Senate Interijiailal seSe- been cleared as qualified for access to classified curity Subcommittee —which is responsible for information. ei b determining whether security laws enacied by Of the 800-odd listed, there are approximately Congress are being properly enforced' Otepka 205 on whom the questions are, in my opinion, si revealed that, of 168 State Department employees serious in relation to the broad security respon e- appointed since Dean Rusk' became Secretary of sibilities of the department. Sixty per cent are in C' State, 150 were not given security checksj required cumbents in high level assignments in the .de t( by law. Instead of complying with ithe hw of partment or in the field. o a Congress, Dean Rusk hired the 150 by i suing "About one half are assigned to what can be waivers categorized as critical intelligence'slots in the _ , ^ to^ ignore the law. Rusk 44LV*V4hired OtepkaV. tor giving this information to the Interha! Se department or to top-level boards andcommittees. curity Subcommittee.^"' The situation described is obviously serious and deserve^urgent attention."'?"' Otepka had done nothing illegal oi uliei but State Department officers (in order to 'tlhical; Information which McLeod submitted with the case that would give Rusk grounds for make list pf 800 names indicates that 648 of the named Otepka) used tactics which would send |a ufiring Stat^ Department employees had been involved in officer to jail for entrapment and invasioDolice ^communist activities; 94 were homosexuals; others privacy. On July 9, 1963, John F. Reilly (D n of were drunks. Three of the Department employees eputy named were suspected of being foreign spies."" Page 94 and There is no indication that the State Depart Someone was responsible in 1962 for threaten liefs) ment ever did anything about the McLeod infor ing to stop American foreign aid to the anti- enate mation. Presumably the 800 are still there, help communist government of President Alessandri han- ing make policies for our nation. of Chile, thus virtually forcing that government >vem- to embrace communist elements in Chilean poli that tics.'"'* The result is that, on March 15, 1964, testi- communists won an impressive victory in a key alsity What To Do Chilean election — foreshadowing communist 9."*' victory in the next presidential election there."®' "ad- On November 27, 1963, United States Repre Whoever had any part in American decisions and both sentative John H. Ashbrook (Republican, Ohio), pronouncements that led to such a result should they introduced House Joint Resolution 812 (H J be revealed and fired. Res 812) calling for an investigation of the State Whoever in the State Department, CIA, or other Department. A similar resolution, introduced in governmental agency supported policy decisions January, 1962, by Representative Richard L. which helped Castro capture Cuba; and whoever Roudebush (Republican, Indiana) died with ad participated in decisions which caused the Bay of journment of the 87th Congress. Pigs tragedy should be exposed and fired. The public must not let the current Ashbrook After spending hundreds of millions of tax dol resolution die. This year, voters should let all lars to "save Laos from communism," the United candidates for Congress know that they will lose States government in 1962 forced the government votes if they do not stand forthrightly for serious, of Laos to accept a coalition with communists. The relentless, thoroughgoing investigation of the result has been virtual communist conquest of the State Department. nation. Whoever participated in such policy de If we do get such an investigation, however, cisions should be fired. we should not be content with removal from The dictator of Ghana is a self-admitted com office of persons who could be proven in a court munist. His hatred of America and his support of law to be connected with the communist con of communist-bloc nations have always been con spiracy. The most important communists in gov spicuous. In February, 1964, his government ernment are too careful to do anything that could staged an anti-American riot by students who be cited as legal proof of their sympathies. We desecrated the American flag. Yet, we continue to should demand removal from public office of give Ghana 159 million dollars a year inaid. Every every official or employee who took any part what ever in formulating decisions which have proved employee or official of the U. S. Government who has participated in decisions to give aid to the to be harmful to American interests, helpful to communist dictator of Ghana should be exposed communism — whether or not specific communist activities by those individuals can be shown. and fired. Whoever participated in the 1962 decision to Who in government service helped plant grant Lee Harvey Os\\'ald a passport and advance ^nd spread the false propaganda that the Diem him tax money for return to the United States after he had declared his allegiance to the Soviet ^^gime in South Vietnam was a murderous dic tatorship, thus preparing the American public to Union and renounced his native America; and ^cept complacently the assassination of the whoever participated in the 1963 decision to issue ^cms.^ Who in government service had some Oswald a new passport for another trip to the P^ft, directly or indirectly, in the Diem assassina- Soviet Union should be fired. tion.^ Whoever they were, they should be re In short, we must have, not just a whitewash, pealed and fired. but a housecleaning of the State Department. i Page 95 FOOTNOTES R WHO IS DAN SMOOT.' 19401940. In?n 1941, heu °joined the faculty at HarvaDan in American Civilization. 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