Congressional 'Record th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 90 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

Vol. 113 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1967 No. 190 House of Representatives

these people were involved in the long range The Preferred Minority: The people, Cordell Hull rejected the truce (A program for the Communist takeover of three-month truce had been sought by the Untouchables . This was well documented during the Navy and War Dept.) and issued the ulti- Senate investigation of the Institute of Pa- matum to the Japanese which was answered cific Relations. These people are protected EXTENSION OF by bombs on December 7. I learned during REMARKS and have become "untouchables," getting the irn hearings that a basic memorandum OF security clearance from "higher up" in spite that constituted the Hull statement of No- of their known subversive records. Often vember 26 was written by Harry Dexter HON. JOHN R. RARICK their names are quite unknown to the gen- eral public but their influence is great. One White." (White was later proved to be a OF LOUISIANA Communist and Soviet agent.) of these "untouchables" is Harold Robert IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Isaacs, and his subversive record is well General George C. Marshall testified dur- d'Eirmentect. ing the Pearl Harbor Congressional Hearings Tuesday, November 21, 1.967 that, If the 90-day truce had been effected, Tonnes was born in City on Sep- RARICK. Mr. Speaker, many the United States might never have become times those who talk equality disbelieve tember 13, 1910, the son of Robert Isaacs involved in the war at alt. Major General and the former Sophie . He graduated Charles Willoughby, USA, Ret., who prob- the people are even qualified to govern from with an A.B. De- themselves. ably knows more about the Sorge Spy Ring, gree in 1030 and was married to Viola Robin- its machinations and agents, than any other In a statement to the House of Rep- son on Sept. 14, 1932. They have two chil- living (loyal) American. recently informed resentatives in the CONGRESSIONAL REC- dren, a son—Arnold R.. and a daughter— us personally that the 134,000 American one of Noven-,bor 7, 1067, under the title Deborah S. Harold Isaacs' employment rec- casuclties in Korea can be directly attributed of "Walt W. Rostow: Another Alger ord. as reported in "Who's Who in World to the activities of the Sorge Spy Ring which Hiss?" I quoted an illuminating article Jewry" (1965). is as follows: involved a number of Americans. He stated in the November 3 issue of the Herald Reporter, N.Y. Times, 1928-30; city editor, that, except for the fact that this Soviet of Freedom, a fortnightly periodical China Press, , China, 1930-1; city intelligence operation convinced the Jap- editor, Haves News Agency, Shanghai-N.Y., anese government to attack the United States published at Zarephath, N.J., which rec- 1935-40; writer-reporter CBS, 1940-3; asso- instead of the , there would ommended a "thorough investigation" ciate editor. Newsweek, 1045-50. have been no U.S. Involvement in World of the subjects background and activi- Isaacs received a grant as a Guggenheim War II, Korea and , and China would ties. Fellow in 1980, write books and, from 1953 still be free; even the Soviet conquest of on, became affiliated with the Center for In- Eastern Europe would probably never have In the November 17 issue of the in- ternational Studies at the Massachusetts happened. dicated publication there is a sequel on Institute of Technology where he Wes asso- In August 1951, General Willoughby, who "The Untouchables" which supplies ad- ciated with Walt Whitman Rostow among had been General Douglas MacArthur's In- ditional documentation on Rostow, others. Isaacs' wife also became associated telligence Officer for eleven 'years, testified Isaacs, end others. with the Center as a researcher. This Center before the House Committe on Un-American was established with CIA funds and does re- Activities and introduced into the record While V2ey talk brotherhood and a search with federal grants to finance these many 0-2 military intelligence records which world ordered under the law, they projects upon which decisions of our high exposed the Sorge Spy Ring and the Ameri- e.erapt themselves because they regard government officials are based. can aspects of the case. Also testifying was themselves in the king clan—they are At the time Harold Isaacs was working in Mitsusada Yoshikawa, former Japanese Proc- the untouchables, above the law, above the Orient a spy ring was In operation there urator (District Attorney) and official of the the people, and above criticism or com- which changed the course of history. Not Ministry of Justice of . l"rom these ment. too well known to the American public is hearings and documents we learn the fol- the fact that, except for the successful op- lowing: For that very reason I insert Mr. Frank eration of the Richard Sorge Spy Ring In Richard Sorge, a master Soviet spy who Capell's "The Untouchables" here in the Japan. we probably would never have been held the rank of Colonel in the . RECORD: catapulted into World War II with the re- using the cover of being a German journalist, THE UNTOUCHABLES sulting Korea and Vietnam tragedies. Rob- had become the top adviser to General Eu- Behind the public figures who make the ert Morris, who was counsel to the Senate gene Ott, the German Ambassador to Japan. speeches and decisions stands a shadowy Internal Security Sub-committee at the Hidemi Ozaki, a Japanest national, was a group of individuals who avoid the lime- time it held the hearings on the Institute member of a secret section of the Central light. They prepare the speeches mouthed of Pacific Relations, which was instrumental Committee of the Russian Communist Party. by the important personages. They "advise" in the fall of China to the Communists, Ozaki was the principal assistant to top on the decisions which means they make the stated In his book, "No Wonder We Are Soviet spy, Sorge. Ozaki had also become the decisions. They prepare "studiez" on which Losing" (p. 132-3) : • top political adviser to Prince Konoye, the these "advisers" base their "advice." In this "General Charles A. Willoughby, who had Japanese Prime Minister, and was considered group which operates behind the scenes, been General MacArthur's Intelligence Offi- the brains of the Konoye Cabinet. Through pulling the strings on the puppet politicians, cer, testified about the machinations of the influence of Sorge and Ozaki over the are individuals whose aliliatluns with Com- Sorge's ring. Sorge, we learned, had two high German and Japanese officials, they :mini/4 omen nod hletory of ectivIl list lit missions: 1) To rennin intelligence Inforinn- were able to convince the Japanese Govern- ment IntIVe IR, InIcon Adele the Inisrmitheini tam- Wei regertiliat intillsiry InleiiLIina 1,4) HOOT for an litterk eplmuy are a matter of mildly record, in end 2) 1.11 lefliienre Jima 'trete Niles, Ili such on U.S. niel British territory, !Tither than north for rut 'LUU* un the Opylpt well its others Who are ceeret They a way He to avert nit ettark on the Soviet Union mid in induce en attack on the w"vk to further Lite objelelven et the world Agues Smedley, alias Alice Bird, •et, i 1f- pl Belled Waive, the Dutch and the British aline Mrti. to the south. Petrulkos, was an agent in the direct service Therm Individuals have 'timely rendered "In other words, during the crucial months of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Central service to the Communist Conspiracy and Committee of the Third (Communist) Inter- of October and November 1941, Soviet agents national or are thereafter "taken oars of" In one way were trying to involve the United States in Comintern. She received orders or another due to their ests.bilshed dependa- war with Japan. . directly from the Central Committee in Mos- bility and competence. A large number of "On November 26. to the surprise of many cow (E.C.C.I.) and Richard Sorge and Hideml Ozaki were involved in activities with her. Harold Isaacs was the editor of the he still kept political prisoners In his jail. glee . . . He raised no question as to the China Forum, an English language Commu- The warden's answer was always 'No.' On possibility that Isaacs might be an objective nist periodical first published in 1932. Isaacs September 30, however. Mr, Isaac of News- scholar despite his Trotskyite sympathies was a close associate of Soviet agent Smedley week, and M. Marukyusu and M. Giran of a "Motylev particularly expressed Indigna- and worked with her. French news agency came to the prison. tion about a review by the well-known anti- In his book, "Spies, Dupes and Diplomats," They did not ask about the political prison- Communist writer. William H. Chamberlin, Ralph de Toledano states (P. 63) : ers. Instead, they merely requested to see the of a book by Stalin. Lattimore replied that he "Egon Erwin Mach, a Comintern agent. prison. The prison authorities reluctantly had not realized the writer's position, but agent, organized the Society of Friends of showed them first the work shop. Next they that as soon as he learned of the Soviet's the Soviet Union, of which Agnes Smedley requested to see the wards. After they went opinion of him, he had canceled an article was an important member. Harold Isaacs was through the wards, they requested to see he had ordered from Chamberlin." editing the China Forum, attacking the im- the solitary cells. . . . As they came to the Hearings on American aspects of the Rich- perialists, and at Smedley's suggestion pub- section which contained the solitary cells, ard Sorge spy case (HCUA), p. 1219: lishing such unbiased writers as Ozaki the three newsmen asked the prison authori- Hozuml 'Hilaire Noulens' was arrested carry- "Smedley (Agnes) was an active member ties point-blank: 'You have political prison- of the Shanghai branch of the notorious ing telltale documents, jailed, tried.... Isaacs ers here, don't you?' . . So finally the pris- and Smedley were busy setting up the Nou- Noulens Defense Committee, a world-wide on officials admitted holding such prisoners Communist-front organization set up by In- lens Defense Fund, weeping that the spy . . . The three newsmen came rushing to our had been picked up out of the sheer malice section, M. Marceuse shouting aloud, 'Where ternational Red Aid (MOPR) specifically to of fascist police." free Paul and Gertrude Ruegg, more com- is Mr. Tokuda? Where is Mr. Shlga?' monly known as Noulens. the leaders of the References to Harold Isaacs appear in the "From that day on, until we came out of following publications of the House Com- the Jail-about 10 days-war correspondents Shanghai FEB (Far Eastern Bureau), tried mittee on Un-American Activities: of various newspapers came to see us.... On and convicted for espionage. With Harold Hearings on American Aspects of the October 10, at 10 o'clock in the morning, we Isaacs, she was a member of the China League Richard Sorge Spy Case, August, 1951: pp. came out of the prison . We were all moved for Civil Rights, and of the local Friends of 1219, 1220, 1221, 1223, 1236, 1246, and 1247. very deeply when we were met by those com- the U.S.S.R.. a Communist-front group, di- Testimony of Oliver Edmund Clubb, March rades who, with red flags in their hands, were rected by the Comintern through local agents . . ." and August 1951: pp. 1980, 1981, 2033, 2034. waiting for us in the rain . Then we The Role of the Communist Press in the plunged into our new (communist) activities "(d) Associations.-Agnes Smedley was Communist Conspiracy, January 1952: pp. with renewed spirit." an associate of Harold Isaacs, and C. Frank 2186 and 2196. Institutte of Pacific Relations, part 10, p. Glass, locally classified as a card-bearing Annual Report of the Committed for 3627: Communist. Isaacs was for some time the 1951: p. 21. Exhibit No. 801, "A Pessimist in the Orient, editor of China Forum. an English-language References to Harold Isaacs appear in the No Peace For Asia." by Harold R. Isaacs, Re- Communist periodical first published in 1932. Senate Internal Security Sub-committee viewed by Owen Lattimore. She was also In close contact with the Ger- Hearings on the Institute of Pacific Rela- "Some years ago Mr. leases published a man woman, Irene Wiedemeyer (Weitetney- tions, Pages 748, 749, 753, 2483, 2807, 2910, book called The Tragedy of the Chinese Re- er) , a secret Comintern agent and distributor 3138. 3827, 3828, 4103, 4104, 4138, 4824, 4831, volution, with a preface by , No of Communist publications, who was In- 4847. 4848, 4861, 4872, 4882, 5219, 5568, 6557, book dealing with the events of 1925-28 in volved in the Sorge espionage case, Edgar 5624; also In the Report on the Institute of China rivals it in vituperation of both the Snow and his wife, who wrote under the Pacific Relations, Pages 14, 46, 90, 91, 118, Communists-the Stalinist Communists. that name Nym Wales, were associated with 126, 145, 167. is-and Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomin- Smedley both in Shanghai and later in Pei- The Senate Internal Security Subcom- tan of Chiang Kai-shek. Mr. Isaccs' dis- ping . . Shanghai police authorities knew mittee in its Report on the I.P.R, identified like of both Stalin and Chiang, and of the that she was closely connected with the So- Harold Isaacs as a Communist of the "Trot- political parties associated with both of viet propagandist, Anna Louise Strong. . , . skyite variety." Although the references to them, continues in his new book. Her (Smedley's) house became the ren- Isaacs in the House and Senate hearings are "In addition, Mr. Isaacs does not like the dezvous of Sorge's ring: it was here that too numerous for us to include them all, colonial policies of Britain. France, and Hot- Ozaki and Kawai were given espionage mis- among the more interesting are the follow- lend. Nor does he like American policy in sions and their reports were, in turn, re- ing: the Far East . . ." ceived ... Smedley became a member of the Testimony of Oliver Edmund Clubb Institute of Pacific Relations, part 12, p. Soviet spy ring headed by Richard Sorge and (HC/JA), p. 1980-1: 4136: became one of his principal and most trusted "Mr. Cause. The only people that I can Exhibit No. 892, Letter from Owen Latti- assistants . . . remember offhand who were alleged to be more to Frederick V. Field (both Commu- "1931: . .. She (Smedley) joined the Nou- Communists but Trotskyist Communists nists) : lens Defense Committee . . Associated with were a couple of journalists who visited "Dens FRED: Enclosed I am sending a Smedley on the committee was Harold Isaacs, Hankow in flood year, 1931. They were not copy of a recent letter from Snow: also a as well as many other prominent leftists ... known to me at that time to be Commu- copy of a recent letter I wrote to Harold "1932: Smedley and Isaacs with a group nists of either camp, but subsequently it Isaacs, who suddenly wrote to apprise me of leftist sympathizers were members of the appeared that at least one of them might that his history of the Chinese revolution First League of Civil Rights in Shanghai have been a Communist. is about to he published by Secker and War- . . Smedley also became very friendly with burg in London. He particularly requested a British Communist. C. Frank Glass, a sus- "Mr. APPELL. Who was that? me not to have it reviewed by any of the pected Comintern agent. With the aid of "Mr. Csoua. Harold Isaacs. But he is 'next of Stalinists' in our New York office! Ozaki. Smedley set up a spy ring in Peiping known, as I believe, to be a Trotskyist Com- "If you are Interested I should like very and Tientsin ..." munist. much to send you occasional samples of cor- General Douglas MacArthur wrote a pref- "Mr. APPELL. Outside of Harold Isaacs, you respondence like these. I hope it might help never met with anyone during your tour ace for the book written by General Wil- to keep us in touch both personally and loughby. "Shanghai Conspiracy." which in- of duty in China whom you knew to be ' a perhaps for the occasional benefit of Pacific Communist? cludes the story of the Sorge Spy Ring, in Affairs and Amerasla . . ." which he states that the book "is of the "Mr. CLuse. There was that second jour- Institute of Pacific Relations, part 13, p. nalist, as gravest importance because it presents a clear I say, who was traveling with 4847: delineation of a world-wide pattern of Com- Isaacs at that time, a South African. Both Opinion of the Loyalty Review Board, Case munist sabotage and betrayal of these people were connected then or which is still of John Stewart Service, re Service's associa- being practiced subsequently with Shanghai newspapers. today. (Emphasis ours-Ed.) tion with Philip C, Jaffe, "Sorge's story did not begin or end with His name was Frank Glass. I met him." "It was also notwithstanding the fact that but (Note: C. Frank Glass, the British subject WRS only a chip in the general on April 25th in New York one Harold mosaic of Soviet Far Eastern strategy. It from South Africa, was a known Commu- Isaacs, known to Service to be a former Com- deals with a sinister epoch in the history of nist and suspected Soviet espionage agent.) munist, in response to an inquiry made by modern China and must be viewed against Institute of Pacific Relations, part 3, p. Service told Service that Jaffe was 'bad busi- 748: the vicious background of world conspiracy. ness' or 'bad medicine,' and that while on the Shanghai was a vineyard of for "Mr. MANDEL. This is a translation from week-end party with the Bissons on May men and women of many nationalities who the book entitled 'Eighteen Years in Prison,' 19th and 20th Jaffe in conversation with had no conceivable personal stake In China, the last chapter written by Yoshio Shiga. Service took what appeared to Service to be pages 159 to 161, published by the Japanese but an almost inexplicable fanaticism for the 'party line' by telling Service that 'they an alien cause-the Communist subjugation Communist Party in 1948 and translated by had real freedom of the press in Russia, Andrew Y. Kuroda, Japanese Section, On- of the Western world. Here were sown the that they did not have real freedom of the dragon's teeth that have since ripened into entalia Division, the Library of Congress. press here.'" "Mr, the Red harvest of today." MORRIS, Will you read the episode to Institute of Pacific Relations: Harold Isaacs is a product of this "vine- which we are referring, Mr. Mandel? Report of the Committee on the Judiciary yard" and has "Mr. MANDEL (rending): now transferred his activities Hearings held by the Internal Security to a government-sponsored think-factory THE DOOR OF FREEDOM Subcommittee), p. 187: "At last the day came when we could be- which is supplying ideas for the world con- "Motylev had been greatly aroused by the spiracy. He is one of the key persons at the come active again. publication of an article on the Perspectives "By the end of September (1945). a re- CIA-created and financed Center for Inter- of the Chinese Revolution by Harold Isaacs, national Studies at M.I.T. where the cleared porter of the American Army had come three a Communist of the Trotskyite variety . . . times to investigate. He asked the warden if from on high security risk, W. W. Rostow also Lattimore proffered most profuse apoio- toiled in the vineyard for many years. Isaacs has been conducting studies In "Political Change, Perception and Identity." The 12th Annual Report of the Center shows that Is- aacs has been conducting investigations con- cerning "Political change" in a number of countries, supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Among the groups studied by Mr. Isaacs, according to the Report, are "American Jews in Israel who are trying to become 'Israelis' without ceasing to be 'Americans.' " The records of the Department of Health, Welfare and show that in 1963 a direct grant was made to Harold R. Isaacs #M.H.-09179-2 for "A Comparative Study of Personality Development." further defined as "Stress, Social Change, World Politics, Comparative Study." The MIT. Center has published numer- ous books and studies by W. W. Rostow, Isaacs and others with policy forming pur- poses. For example, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency made a grant to Dr. Lincoln P. Bloomfield, a member of the Center's staff, for studies in "Regional Arms Control Arrangements." and "Soviet Inter- ests and Attitudes Toward Disarmament." Dr. Bloomfield worked out plans for U.N. Peace-keeping Forces to occupy parts of the United States for inspections, Assisting Dr. Bloomfield was Amelia Leiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She will be recalled as the editor of the study, "Apart- heid and United Na`ions Collective Mess- ures"--an analysis financed by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, of which Alger Hiss was the President in 1947. This study showed the forces necessary for a United Nations invasion of South Africa and was reported in detail in the Herald of Freedom issue entitled, "The Conspiracy to Destroy South Africa." Dr. Bloomfield, an associate of Walt Rostow and Harold Isaacs, has been active in formulating plans for the disarmament of the United States and the setting up of U.N. "Peace-keeping" stations all over the United States. It is Interesting to note that one of the books published by the Center was originally -published by the I.P.R. The Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Report #2060, on the In- stitute of Pacific Relations, July 2,1952, cited the IPR as follows: "The IPR was a vehicle used by the Com- munists to orientate American far eastern policies toward Communist objectives." "Members of the small core of officials and staff members who controlled IPR were either Communist or pro-Communist." The Amer- ican Communist Party and Soviet officials considered the organization "an instrument of Communist policy, propaganda and mili- tary intelligence." (pp. 223 and 225) Harold Isaacs, In spite of his documented record of service to the International Com- munist Conspiracy, is financed by the U.S. Government, The Center at M.I.T., through such persons as Isaacs, Rostow, Bloomfield, Wiesner and others, has been formulating policies for the Defense Department, the State Department and the CIA. All these men have been able to get the necessary security clearances and ample government funds to plan for a Soviet America. These men are among the untouchables.