GI FRIEND OF SPIES LANDS IN TOP INTELLIGENT SPOT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100080023-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: November 13, 1953
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW XORK MII ROR N O V 13 1953 A,ITCY .
CPYRGMproved For Release 2000/08/24: CIA-RDP70.,00058R000100080023-7
rDVR(,I-IT
GI Friend of Spies Lands Intelligent in Top Spot
By VI
CTOR RIESEL
ETIS e calm about e Harry ex er i e rumpus, th, y
tell us in some circles. All right, you be calm. I've g )t
ust the story to soothe you. It's the story of a friend f
pies Harry Dexter White, Frank Coe, Gregory Silvermast r
and lial,a Ludwig Ullman. They all worked for the U. S.
reasury Dept. during `ffiel"big war.
This "friend" Is Russell Arthur?
Pon, who had
areer in the I,7. S. Army. All you
x-GIs will be fascinated to know
1 g h t friends.
axon had
hem. Drafted
n 1944, he went
.hrough basic
raining. Then
e just wafted
up from buck
private to sec
nd liteutenant
in charge of
our Financial
ntelligence Sec-
tion of the
Branch of the
Finance D I v i-
ion of the An;P Cnntro Council
n Germany. That's nicd." "d .
'fellow. Just 33 at the time.
GOES RIGIro1rii' bssih"` 1'it
antry training into intelligence
ork. And sits as a `i'ft&fil er of
he. Joint Intelligence Committee,
caved by Col. X '#operat-
ng on Generagence prob-
ems" in Berlin.
That's our Horatio Alg
capitalism, for you. This fello ,
who doesn't like us and thin
the Soviet Union is just wo
derful, is on record as sayin
that "in spite of all the desi
in the world, the (U.S.) gover
ment has never been able
demonstrate" the connecti
between the American Comm -
nist Party and the Commune t
International.
That was In answer to a qu s-
tion put to him by Sen. Hub rt
Humphrey. The Senator as d
the bright boy: "Do you consi r
the Communist Party to be a p rt
of an international network r
do you consider it to be an n-
digenous political organizat' n
within the U. S.?"
SO THIS FELLOW, R ss
Nixon, gets drafted back in I M4
while he is head of the Washi g-
ton office of the United Electri al
Workers.. Now, I have differ d
with the UE rather strongly in
the past. But we agree on e
Its leaders have been named be-
fore Congressional committees as
high policy makers of the Com-
munist Party. It was expelled
from the CIO for following "the
line."
Yet the chief of its Washing.
ton legislative efforts is whirl-
winded right to the topmost
echelons of our intelligence
forces-and finds himself sit-
ting on the same Joint Intelli-
gence Committee with none
other than our-h- he intelli-
gence officer, flen u ow
head 1? Cen e.
Of course; Allen Du 1es was
THIS MAN NIXON, whose
union In 1939 pulled and sup-
ported some of the most catas-
trophic strikes crippling our re-
armament efforts and our striv-
ings to help the anti-Nazi allies,
this man Nixon was shoved to
the top in this fashion:
At first he was chief of the
Denazification Section of the
Finance Division having charge
of the vital denazification of
the German Financial System
In the American Zone.
Then he became chief of the
thing. This union is pro-Sov' t.
Branch of Financial Intelligence
of the same division. Then deput ,
director of the Division of Inve
s
tigation of Cartels and Extern
Assets of the Allied Contro
Council in Berlin. And WITHI
A FEW DAYS OF GETTING
THAT LAST JOB he became Pi-
rector of that Division.
SO SUBTLY did he work that
he deceived even the intelligent
officers -of Gen. Eisenhower and
Gen. Clay, who appointed Nixon}
THE AMERICAN MEMBER oZ
the four-power German External.
Property Commission established
at the Potsdam Conference. The
two generals, busy elsewhere,
depended on Treasury Dept. In-
formation from back home.
These were the Intelligence
division which searched out so
much of the German assets
which the Russians took or dis-
mantled. Much of these proper-
ties are now producing weap-
ons and precision instruments
with which the Russians threat-
en us.
Oh, yes. Don't worry about
Nixon. He got his job back at the
United Electrical Workers. He
still runs their Washington Bu-
reau. But, they did give him time
off, back there in 1948, to help
launch the Pro-Soviet Progressive
Party.
Like I said, keep calm.
Approved For Release 2000/08/24: CIA-RDP70-00058R000100080023-7