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New York lournal-American
Sept. 7,1948
By DAVID SENTNER
ads
Y. Journal-American Washington art
head of provided by Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, Tamous from
leads posure a Soviet atomic espionage ring: resulted public ex-
WASHINGTON, of The forthcoming base
the Manhattan district project, it was learned wartime
secretly before services which produced the atom bomb and
the armed The generalissimo of the team of industry, science today.
ities. the the House Committee on Un-American testified Activ-
Groves da ,77 will be a major witness when public hearings are
resumed qn Sept 15.
Many of the witnesses to be heard in the executive com-
the mittee hearings which begin today are expected to amplify
disclosures developed from Groves' testimony.
Meanwhile, the committee announced that its, investi-
gators had discovered that Alger Hiss had introduced
State Stettinius at the 1945 San Francisco United Nations
writer Dalton Trumbo, alleged Communist, to Secretary screen of
conference-and Trumbo had aided Stettinius in prepating
Hiss, former top State Department official and blue-
pzinter of the UN set-up, is charged by Whittaker Chambers,
ex-Communist courier and now a $30,000-a-year senior editor
at Time magazine, with being a member of the Red under-
ground.
Trumbo, one of the "unfriendly ten" witnesses before
the recent Hollywood Congressional hearing, had his alleged
Communist Party card introduced into evidence. He was
cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer the
question as to whether he was a Communist.
Although Gen. Groves was told by
that he was not expected to discuss anything whion might
embarráss him or al
inator of the A-bomb project did not pull any punches?: and
testified at great length.
While the exact language of his testimony has not been
divulged, it was disclosed authoritatively that Gen. Groves
drew, a picture of constant conflict with New Deal political
influence on security questions concerning the atomic bomb.
Gen Groves named various Communist-minded profes-
sors who were taken off key aspects of the natomic bomb's
Continued on Page 2, Column 6.
mannfacture when their affiliations were reported by Army
and Navy intelligence:
He also testified to episodes linking American person-
alities with the Canadian atomic spy ring.
As the result of Gen. Groves' testimony, 40 other wit-
nesses were questioned on atomic leaks to the Soviet Union,
including officials connected with present atomic production.
The inside story of the atomic bomb project, as told to
the committee by Groves, supplemental witnesses and re-
sultant evidence gathered by committee investigators, pro-
duced the following picture:
A former New Deal cabinet member interfered with
A-bomb security efforts by arranging for uranium ship-
ments to the Soyiet Union.
The flights of uranium oxide and uranium nitrate from
Montana to Soviet authorities in Canada were not known
until later by the intelligence branch of the Manhattan dis-
trict project.
In 1943, another shipment of uranium, arranged through
the Soviet purchasing commission here, was flown directly
to Moscow.
These samples of important A-bomb ingredients were
given to the Soviet Union as part of the appeasement policy
of the administration.
A mining magnate interested in uranium deposits in
Canada and the Belgian Congo, involved in the American
uranium shipments to the Russians, was known to be a close
friend of a high New Deal official.
As the House Committee on Un-American Activities
opens its week of taking secret testimony before resuming
open hearings on its spy probe, Rep. McDowell (R.-Pa.), re-
vealed the committee's interest in reperts of plans for the
building of an international astronomical observatory in the
Belgian Congo uranium fields,
He said:
"We want to check up on the reason why an inter-
national group of scientists selected the site for their star-
gazing laboratory which is in the heart of the world's great-
est uranium deposit region."
The proposed sky-scanning center in the eastern Congo
is reported to be subsidized by European scientists at a cost
of $9,000,000.