RED DIPLOMATS IN U.S. ARE ACCUSED

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Red bI$Iomats in
U.S..- Are.. Accused
Majority. Branded "Subversive"
At House Subcommittee's Quiz,
Opening in San Francisco
IFOUR this nation.
MAGAZINES
Arens produced four foreign
English language magazines
which he said were purchased
I- in a Bay Area bookstore on
Friday."
Irving Fishman, New York
!deputy- customs collector, who
was a witness at the time, iden
itified two of them as magazines
which "consistently handle-
pro-paganda."
Fishman said the U.S: Customs
Service does not recommend
!censoring the propaganda.
ionly say it should be label
Ifor what it is."
? He said that of 4,500,000 pie
jof printed matgrtal-examined4';.,
;J4 por' i of entry and deters,
see retnF from Sovjetl
CPYRGHT
sources, most were improperly
labnelledAginents' v14?la1#' ' 1jfap.
e ig
LARGE U1' Nb1TURE
Arens said it is estimated t1iat
O-w,mm,uuv a year 'alohe, in
India.
Subcom nittle-Chdlrman Clyde
Doyle or California opened the
session by warning" thgr" eVi-
ash1n
tos
-.
0
AMY Los
:Angeles ,presents a nrkin
g
-4.a< y Ulpivrnats them oftheir Act.
d i ipfiltration to rob
stationed in the.. United States are en
gag
e
n activities ll
ega defenses "against ultfmatd The, subcortimlttee comes to
subversive to our government, a House Un-American domination by conspirators loyal San Francisco after three days
Activities subcommittee was told today in San Francisen only to the Kremj
1
id
a.
, sa
that the names' First .Witnesses called tl- ` geles. Six persons had to be
of 100 diplomats from Russian dominated countries.were.morning were U.S. Customs of..hustled out of the hearing rooms
turned over to the Ce,itrr'J, tellfgence Agency for screen-ficials. - "iduring the Southern California
Of this totpl, Arens said, ~ Fishman said that 156,575, sessions.
the CIA reported that 32
packages of mailiig i S SOLE PURPOS
arrvnnanE
were."1ttfve"1n intelligence Francisco from the Orient were -Both Arens and Scherer said
work ;for their government, examined during !c
the mo tts of, hat testimony gathered to date
21 were engaged in.commu-Auust, Set learly shows that the commu-
gist 'activities, and 29 others g P ember and October lets are under directions to in-
were invoiiv d in other forms of LARGELY PROPAGANDA
Pon-communist groups
s$bversite, vities. Of this amount; 490,330 trate
,: pieces ,fo stir ir up opposition to the Me-
Arens -rladc his remarks 'as a of printed matter appeared toCarran - W a 1 t e,r Imfnigratipn
U.S. customs official testified be propaganda and "moat pf it .Act"
ft,..:.
Curtain" countries to ship large
,amounts of literature and pro.
paganda material to their lega-
tions and diplomatic office$ in
the United States. The material
I , then forwarded to readers in
CPYRGHT
erigirrated in the Soviet Union Both emphasized that', many
or red China and was shipped want mate groups and > ilati es
'want changes in the legislation
There through Hong Kong." and they are concerned onl
He said the literature, as well with communist front groups
as new, reels and feature Jilms, whose sole purpose is (pealing
generally speaks, against the !security laws.
United States pnd United Stages' Arens said he believed the
policies, communist party-was a "serious
Customs officials brought bags danger" to the. United States
full of mail as evilence for the now because "the namby-pamby
committee. ]intellectual dupe has long since
Arens, committee counsel, said
20 witnesses "friendly and un-
friendly" have been summoned
before the subcommittee. He
!elk tr) a aunut "bring. i
ing propaganda into, the U.S."
At a press conference in the!
Fairmont Hotel -yesterday, Arens1
and Rep. 'Gordon Sherer of Ohio,t
a subcommittee' member, said
that San Francisco Was one of
the 40 ports of entry for commu-
nist propaganda from Soviet
countries.
they. said that "tens of thou-
sands of 'pieces of communist1
literature" are ? entering the.,
United States. In San Francisco
a clamor for the repeal of the
Smith Act, the Internal Security
Core has been solidified."
Besides Arens and Scherer
named only Louis Goldblatt,'Rep. Clyde Doyle of South Gate,'
secretary-treasurer of the In- Calif., and Rep. Harold Velde~
ternationa] Longshoremen's and of Illinois.
Warehousemen's Union, as one In a statement issued today.,
of the principal witnesses. Arens the American Civil Liberties!
Isai4 the committee wanted to Union of Northern Californih,
--------___----,condemned the hearings a. "g ossly unfair, unnecessary, a++
waste of the taxpayers' money.,
and violative of the right of
free speech'. I
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