Rose "Recruiting Agent" For Spy RingIn Accusation By Gouzenko Also Named . HAD ROSE HANDWRITING by Witness as Acting ht Some 'of the documents he saw, 2 ACCUSED PRESENT them the Gouzenko said, had on While the trial proceeded Same Capacity For ', handwriting of Rose. H. S. urged to Gerson and former squadron leader The Communist cell was Mat Nightingale appeared Soviet stop functioning as a "political and' wait. "agents to ed outside the courtroom to be , May_ 31-(BUP)-Fr,d' group" and to work as ed as witnesses. call- get information on . weapons and Rose. Communist MP on trial on an military purposes," Gouzenko said. The documents mentioned numer- -conspiracy charge was' Before producing documents to be ous agents including Gerson and exhibited. Crown Prosecutor Philippe Nightingale by their cover named in court evidence here today and asked names. as a recruiting agent for a Soviet Brais asked Mr. Justice Wilfred for information regard- ' Lazure to agree to the original ing military matters. They already espionage chief in Canada along documents being filed at the moment, had been gone through at Roses with Sam Carr, former national or- 'and then replaced by copies, the preliminary hearing. They named ganizer of Rose's party in Canada. originals to be available to the court meeting places and also and the defense, at any time. Justice named small sums of money m , Soviet secret code agents paid to m expert and Crown witness at Rose's ' Lazure agreed . by the Soviet military i trial, also named Capt. Gordon Lun- The first document produced was attache's office. m an as head of Canadian agents for one written by Zabotin, Gouzenko Cohen said the defense raised ob. 1 m the Soviet, and Edward W. Mazerall . . ' said, in June, 1943 . "It is a report of jections that the Gouzenko docu- i Prof. Israel Halperin and Durnford the status_ of things before Zabotin ments were not within the jurisdic m 'arrived here." lion of the court Smith as other agents. Lunari, he was because of "extra. w said, was "head of a Communist cell ' Gouzenko said the document territorial" rights . He said the Rus- in the national research council.'' not dictated by Zabotin's predecessor sion embassy in Ottawa Nvas a part. The defense lost a - new attempt', in his presence . of Russia and hence things transpir- to -bar . -documents submitted 'by Cohen then objected again to ad- ing there transpired in essense in Gouzenko. Joseph Cohen and Val- mission of documents taken from the Soviet. He wondered also whe- more Bienvenue told Mr. Justice the Soviet military attache's office ther the Russian names in Rose's Wilfred Lazure that Gouzenko's evi- in Ottawa by Gouzenko. The docu- indictment were legally there be- , dence is "plain hearsay" .and that ment to be filed, he said, was illegal souse "they may not be in law con- "we object to all documents' which evidence because it was "not pre- spirators." do not emanate from the witness pared in furtherance of conspiracy," himself." and it did not emanate from a Ie- EVIDENCE RULED LEGAL puted co-conspirator. Justice Lazure told them-he would He also objected to the document see that facts only are presented being admitted because "the validity but ruled that the Crown evidence of its contents was not known to L was legal. the witness." Cohen argued that "It seems that everything goes in the documents were "not in the a . conspiracy.," Cohen chuckled after jurisdiction of this court." G the court ruling. The objection was dismissed by . Gouzenko and the jury, who had Justice Lazure. been * temporarily withdrawn from KNOWN AS "FRED" the courtroom during the legal argu- ment, returned, and Gouzenko re- Gouzenko testified that in the sumed testimony. document Rose was referred to as Gouzenko said "the recruiting "Fred." "Fred" and "Debousz" were agents supplied to Col. N. Zabotin cover names for Rose-he said. (Soviet military attache to the Rus- The document ;~aid "Fred" worked 149 sian Embassy in Ottawa) and other with "the neighbors" who are the Russian officials,'! agents who in turn NKVD (Russian secret police). WAR supplied information. "Fred" worked prior to 1942, through The recruiting agents were Sam the Russian Consulate in New York. EUROPEAN Carr and ," he said. (Sam It was in 1942 that the Russians 1939 Carr was former national organizer in New York recommended to Ot- WEAPONS for the Labor-Progressive-Commun tawa that "Fred" work for the, ist-party in Canada.) Soviets there,' the document said, ac- BOMB Rose gazed steadily - at Gouzenkq cording to. Gouzenko. "Fred" gave while he testified. The agents, Gou- information on shells and guns. ATOMIC zenko said, had access , "secret The document mentioned also an important information." agent in Montreal with the cover "Fred Rose gave agents" (to. name of "green" who gave informa- Zabotin) and one of them kvas' tion on the "number of tanks" turn- "Lunan," he tes~ified. (Capt. Gordon ed out in a plant in Montreal . Lunan faces espionage charges in an Speaking of Lunan, the document Ottawa court.) " ' said he "sometime,; needed financial Lunan, Gouzenko said, "was head assistance." The defense objected of a group of agents." He 'added' again to the document and to "all that "Lunan was head of a Com-, others which will be produced by tnunist cell in the National Research the witness on the ground that they Council. In the cell were also .Maz- are not within the jurisdiction of this erall. Halperin and Durnford Smith." court to receive and consider." (Edward W. Mazerall is to be sen- The objection was dismissed. Last' tenced in Ottawa tomorrow follow- Wednesday the defense had claimed ing conviction on a charge of con-( the documents had diplomatic im- spiracy. Prof, Israel Halperin and munity because they belonged to a Durnford Smith are among those foreign embassy. The documents awaiting - trial.) produced this morning outlined the work and projected work of Soviet agents.