Official Commentary on Beria Expected From U.S. or Spain

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 11, 1953
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Indian Officials
Review Nation's Fleet
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BOMBAY, India, Oct, 10 (Re .
ters)-President Prasad, acco
panidd by Prime Minister Neh
today reviewed the Indian fie
in Bombay Harbor.
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ship Delhi, six destroyers, thre
frigates, two survey ships, an 1
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capon to attempt to prove the ministration. But he said its
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e prisoners surrendered were incorporated with Zone B under
an autonomous Yugoslav unit for
a period of at least 10 years.
Which I see," Tito said. If the
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viet leaders have abandoned "there will be no peace in this
Lpu,g, one internationalization of Trieste
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ple In Asia -who want to m of . the Trieste free territory
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Official Commentary. on Berta
Expected From U.S., or Spain
sue a statement on the fantas. Ming family. Gallo Is described liahed details of how Gallo ,o
is cloak-and-dagger story-the 1-_
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Informed officials say the story ERIA CLUES down -Gallo, quoted the Nic I.
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ommunist plot, a gargantuan Rembert James, The San a final version of his story th t
oax, or-the truth. Lego Union's military editor, he met a man he believed t6
n investigation on two con Caff writer, are in Madrid Gibraltar last month but that Is
nests, has developed an accurate vestigating Lavrenti Boris's second contact tailed.
ronology of events linked to the ported escape from Russia. It should be recalled that Ju y
1 elude Vice President Nixon, eaks and reads Russian and This was a bombshell, Sin
en. McCarthy (R-Was) and w Berla in person on many death, Berla had be
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the satellite states whose freedom
was stolen from them by the
godless men in the Kremlin," he
said.
"As long as they retain hope,
they may yet, be our strongest ?
allies in the event of oviet ag?
gression."
Knowland also said he was
shocked to learn on his return to
America that attempts are still
being made by several nations to
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ONLY A FEW
Columbus Day is tomor-
row, but few 'places will be
closed in its observance.
Banks, hitherto closed on
the holiday, will be open, and
so will federal offices, stores,
city, county and private
schools, with exception of
St. Augstine High School.
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spite of their grievances, prc
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sla to relieve them of any ant
ety," he said. Churchill recall)
that in May,he had suggested
new Locarno treaty In which a
signers pledged to fight if a were attacked.
Churchill said. 'We are told tt
Locarno treaty failt'd and did i
very good reason for that. Th
United States was not in it (ti,
before the first World War or -&
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U.S. STATEMENT ON BERIA EXPECTED
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secret police and as minister of
interior was chief of the So.
viet atomic effort which gave
Russia the key to the hydrogen
bomb.
He headed the spy network
which included the late Julius
and Ethel-Rosenberg and Klaus
Fuchs, who contrived to give
Russia the secrets w h I c h
enabled the Reds to smash
American mastery of atomic and
hydrogen weapons.
Washington leaked a rumor that
Beria was out of Russia. T he
leak caused The San Diego
Union to break the story which
it had been sitting on for a
month.
By this time the FBI h a d
turned the matter over to t h e
State Department and had with.
drawn from the case.
SENATOR HAD DOUBTS
plates and appearance of the
car in which he said he met
"Beria" and even mentioned
plans to get "Beria" to the
United States.
The American-Spanish Inquiry
continued, and the facts have
been sifted.
HOW OFFICIALS REACTED
High officials in Washington
believe Red agents might have
planted the Berta story on Gallo
for these reasons: '
To brand Beria even more
deeply within Russia a "tool of
foreign imperialists" actively
plotting with capitalists' and
conniving with the West against
,the Soviets.
To involve such celebrated
anti-Communists as McCarthy
and Nixon in a hoax.
To follow the traditional Com-
munist strategy of creating con-
fusion among enemies.
Responsible United States of-
ficials do not a t t a c h im-
portance to the statement of Col.
Ulio Amoss, operator of a pri-
vate Information network, that
he was told in Munich that
Berta had escaped.
These officials Insist Gallo is
the key figure in the jigsaw.
Gallo returned to Madrid sev-
eral days ago and was last re-
ported with relatives in or near
the capital.
In the course of their inves-
tigations, United States agencies
conducted a detailed search into
Gallo's background and pre-
vious activities. They ascer-
tained that Gallo was the source
of earlier information to Mc-
Carthy's committee of a $150,000
shakedown of a foreign country
by State Department personnel.
There the matter stands.
International News S e r v I c e
has learned that American
authorities -- Nixon and S err.
McCarthy - first heard the Beria
escape report from The San
Diego Union.
3 OTHERS INVOLVED
This Is What happened: Gallo
informed the San Diego Union
t h a t through Latin-Amer.
ican Communists he had learned
that four big Russians wanted
asylum in the United States.
-One of the Russians was de-
scribed as Beria. The others pre.
sumably were described as
henchmen who aided in his "es-
cape."
Gallo reported he was In.
formed the fugitives wanted
ironclad assurance from "some-
one like President Eisenhower
or Sen McCarthy" that they
would find refuge in the United
States.
The San Diego Union notified
Vice President Nixon, a Cali.
fornian. McCarthy also was in-
formed through Francis Flana-
gan, chief counsel of the Wis-
consin senator's investigating
subcommittee. Nixon referred
the matter to the FBI and the
Central Intelligence Agency.
OTHER ASSURANCES
The story developed further.
Gallo said he was told by sever.
al Soviet secret police agents
that "Berta" and three of h i s
aides escaped from Russia by
plane and landed secretly at
Malaga, Spain.
Gallo flew to Spain, to contact
the supposed Beria and negoti-
ate for his delivery to the United
States. The San Diego Union as-
signed Fuson to fly to Spain.
These developments occurred
between mid-August and Sept.
19, when a Senate source in
The San Diego Union published
a copyrighted story that Fuson
had met an intermediary claim-
ing to represent Beria. Later,
McCarthy announced in Wash.
ington that he was investigating
the supposed escape. Still later,
the senator said the situation be-
gan to look "more and in o r e
like a hoax." C
Meanwhile, ABC, a Madrid
newspaper, said it had received
reports Beria had parachuted
into Spain's Mancha region -
scene of the. fictional exploits of
Don Quixote de la Mancha.
International News Service has
established that Gallo, in trans-
Atlantic telephone talks from
Malaga to McCarthy's agents in
Washington, asserted that he
was actually in direct contact
with Beria.
Gallo, located in Torremolinos,
a village near Malaga, was
questioned by Spanish police
and United States embassy of-
ficials He also was questioned
by H. Edward Knoblaugh, INS
correspondent in Spain. He de-
nied to Knoblaugh knowing any-
thing about the Beria case but
later made conflicting state-
ments.
Fuson, for example, said
Gallo had told him of a state-
ment to Spanish police in which
he, Gallo, described the color,
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