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DIRECTOR, FBI (65-59356) date: 11/19/65
SAC, NEW HAVEN (65-1367) (C)
STANLEY I^BERT_RICH
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RE: New York letter to Bureau, 10/26/65.
A review of the file in the captioned matter in the New Haven
Division reflects that IRVING RlYWEINGARTEN, in interview by
the ,New._York Division on~l/27/65, stated 'that he met RICH at
Cambridge, Mass., in 1943 and had previously known him as a
member of the Young Communist League (YCL) at the College of
the City of New York (CCNY) • In 1943 RICH was at the Harvard
Underwater Sound Laboratory and WEINGARTEN was attending a
radio course as a member of the Army Air Corps at Harvard-MIT.
Both men attended a dinner in the nature of a farewell at a
Chinese restaurant in Boston in May, 1943. WEINGARTEN alleged
that after leaving the restaurant on the above occasion,
RICH mentioned to WEINGARTEN that he could send to a Russian
officer any information that WEINGARTEN could obtain for him.
Although WEINGARTEN agreed, he never saw or heard from RICH again..
rhiT*v nor ‘i'Ho a Hrivo 4 Atii r«lA4ni«aH u lack of (
WEINC^RTEN claimed _a
connection with YCL
memory
or CP matters
During the abo ve interview, ^
concerning persons or places in
In interview on 2/2/65^*yi^IN^J^T^ stated that at the above
dinner there were First Lieutenant ADRIAN BLUMENFELD and CRAIG
REYNOLDS and their wives, together with one FNU GOLDFIELD, who
had also attended CCNY. GOLDFIELD and RICH were the only
civilians present and were the only ones known to WE INGA
as leftists, ^n this occasion WEIN
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on 3/4/65, WEINGARTEN denied approaches by anyone other
than RICH. He related that RICH had stated that he or
someone else mould contact WEINGARTEN but no follow-up
ensued. He related that GOLDFIELD and RICH were both TCL
members at CCNY. He claimed inability to recall names of
persons in his CP groups, places of meetings or other data.
On 4/8/65, -WEINGARTEN-declined^further. interviews^ for t^e_
present, stating that he was not feeling wel l, had left home
and was staying with his parents for a rest.
that he would poss
month or two.
y be available for xntervie
On 4/2/65, WEINGARTEN telephonically contacted the New York
Office and in an excited condition stated tlit he had furnished
all information in his possession an d desired no further intervie ws
He added ^tha±__he had left his wife.
WEINGARTEN stated that he had known RICH only as a YCL member
and not as a CP member. He stated that RICR's approach to
him was probably based on the fact that RICH had known him to
be a CP member. There had been no preliminary approach to
WEINGARTEN by RICH or any other person previous to the one by
RICH in Hay, 1943. The proposition by RICH, according to
— WEINGARTEN, was "out of “the blue";
HAX^ITCHER, a witness at the trial of MORTON SOBELL^nd
'' JULIUS ROSENBERG, advised in July, 1950, that RICH had be^ a
leftist at CCNY and dxhibited the same tendencies at Washington,
D.C., in 1938 or 1939while residing at 15 16 Del afield Place^
and employed by the Navy Board of Ordinance." RICH was
described by ELITCHER as a "progressive" but not known to be
a CP member. ELITCHER, RICH and another persont: occupied an
apartment at the above address for a short time. According to
ELITCHER, someone (possibly SOBELL) later stated about 1945
that RICH had deviated from his leftist viewpoint. ELITCHER
speculated that it was possible that RICH gave up his leftist
associates to engage in espionage.
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RICH was interviewed on 8/28/50 by agents of the New Haven
Division and stated that be bad known ROSENBERG and SOBELL
at CCNT. When learning of their arrests, he felt that all
persons ever associated with them would be interviewed, and
that he was pleased to furnish any information in his possession.
On 9/9/50, RICH admitted YCL membership at CCNY but denied
being an officer or leading functionary of the group. He
claimed that he discontinued his communistic sympathies after
-/ graduation -in 1958. _ He .denied_ever_ Joining the CP or attending
CP meetings. « .v
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EDWARoWlLLHAN, of Baltimore^ was Interviewed on IVVSO and
statdd That he had resided at 1316 Delafield Place, Washington,
D.C.., in 1938. Be related that WILLIAM and SYLVIA DANZIGER,
^SoBELL and RICH frequently discussed communism favorably
and projected pro-communist views in their conversation. Either
DANZIGER, SOBELL or RICH exhibited a YCL membership card on one
occasion at Delafield Place. In this period, according to
HILLMAN, RICH stated that if he ever developed subsonic waves
he would say that the Russians got the Information as well as
the Navy Department. He heard nothing further concerning this
statement from RICH or other persons and could not be certain
that RICH was serious at the time. He could not recall the
circumstances of the remark or whether others were present when
it* was made .
Prosecution of RICH was instituted by the Department of Justice
on 10/1/57 for failure to disclose YCL membership or membership
in the Steinmetz Club at CCNY on a Personnel Security Questionnaire
executed 8/28/50.
RICH gave a sworn statement to the Office of Special
Investigations on 9/25/59 admitting membership in the
Steinmetz Club of YCL in his senior year (1938) at CCNY but
denied contact with communists since that time. He admitted .
attendance with his family at a summer camp with left wing
tendencies in 1942, but denied being aware of the nature of the
camp until his arrival at the location. He claimed that he
and bis wife detest communism, socialism and all forms of
collectivism. . '
The New York Division suggested that the above named BLUMENFELD,
REYNOLDS and GOLDFIELD be located and interviewed concerning the
reported approach of RICH to IRVING WEINGARTEN.
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ADR^i(N j BLUMENFELD was interviewed at New Y ork on 7/1/65.
He stated that he was at Harvard-MIT in 1942-1943 and worked
closely with WEINGARTEN, CRAIG REYNOLDS and two or three
others. The group and their wives dined together frequently.
BLUHENFELD had a faint recollection of a farewell dinner in
Hay^ 1943, but could not recall the location or the identities
of those present. He was unable to recall a dinner at a Chinese
restaurant ._.He_cou Id not recall the names of RICH or JOSEPH
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GOLDFIELD as civilians he might have~met" with"WEINGARTEN- or^any -
individuals associated with the Harvard Underwater Sound
Laboratory. ^ /
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Inquiry at Hartford, Conn., in October, 1965,' ref lected that the
family of RICH still resides 363 North Quaker Lane, West Hartford,
and that RICH as of 10/1/64 was employed by theLodding Engineering
Company, Teknlka Division, at Aububn, Hass. , ^
Andrew CRAia Reynolds, Jr., was interviewed by Bureau^Agents
i ' at Fort Wa^e, Indiana, on 8/6/65. He could not Identify a
photograph^ of RICH as that of any person he had ever seen.
He stated that he attended the Harvard-UIT Radio Training Course
in 1942-1943 and remembered ADRIAN BLUHENFELD and IRVING
WEINGARTEN. He stated that the names of RICH and GOLDFIELD
meant nothing to him. He recalled a second floor Chinese
restaurant in Boston but could not remember its name or
location. He could recall no farewell dinner in Hay, 1943.
Be stated that he had lost track of BLUHENFELD in 1944 and
has not seen WEINGARTEN since 1954.
-WEINGARTEN -telephonicall
tha t
■previous
^rue and he wished to continue interviews
to clear the matter up. WEINGARTEN did not subsequently . - . f
contact the New York Office . Jjj j .. '"L-
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The only person possibly knowing of the association of WEINGARTEN
and RICH at Cambridge, Hass., in 1943 is JOS^HjGOLBFIELD.
In Uarch, 1943, GOLDFIELD took employment at^the Chemical, Warfare
Service Development Laboratory at HIT. GOLDFIElD'iind his wife
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InqllTTy in tne instant matter to date has failed to conflra any
association between RICH and WEINGARTEN at Cambridge, Mass., Rn
-1943. - __ ..
Although RICH has admitted YCL affiliation at CCNY in 1938 no
evidence of CP membership on his part has been developed and
such affiliation has been denied by RICH on nximerous occasions.
It does not appear that interview of RICH at this time would be
productive of fruitful results concerning an incident that
reportedly occurred 22 years ago. No request for Bureau authority
for interview of RICH is being made at this time and the case
is being placed in a closed status in the New Haven Division,
UACB.
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DIRECTOR, FBI (6S-S9356)
SAC, NEW YORK (65-1S395) (P)
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STANLEY ROBERT RICH
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(00: NEW HAVEN)
date:
10/26/65
RcBulet, 6/18/65, and NYlet, 7/15/65.
NY is not aware of the results of interview of CRAIG
-^■REYNOLDS at Urbana, Illinois. ^
^ ... Newark letter 9/20/65, set forth information as to
JOSEPH^OLDFIELD* s present employment and residence.
NY letter, 8/19/65, advised that IRVPWt^EINGARTEN ,
on 8/17/65, was in telephonic contact with the NYO. He stated
that when his personal situation permitted, he would continue
interviews. WEINGARTEN has not as yet contacted the NYO. In | ^
Xyiew of his health condition, NY does not believe it advisable
to take the initiative to contact him before he, of his own
volition, contacts NY.
Unless interview of CRAIG REYNOLDS provided the names
of other persons who might verify the association of WEINGARTEN
and RICH at Cambridge, Mass., in IS^TS, the only othfer person'
mentioned by WEINGARTEN as knowing this association is JOSEPH
GOLDFIELD.
goldfield's background has been set forth at length
in New York letter, 2/24/65, and Newark letter, 4/22/65. GOLDFIELD
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was employed at Edgewood Arsenal from January, 1942 to March,
1943, when he accepted employment at the Chemical Warfare Service
Development Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in Cambridge, Mass. WEINGARTEN dated the approach by RICH to
him (WEINGARTEN) as May, 1943. It is noted that GOLDFIELD
-and -his-wife-were -listed_as_member^ of ^he Henry Thoreau Braiy
_of the Communist Political Association as of November. 194 4t
It is questionable whether GOLDFIELD, in view of his
background, would now be willing to discuss frankly matters
pertaining to instant investigation.
Since the degree of association of GOLDFIELD and RICH
is not known, and since it appears desirable to avoid alerting
RICH prior to the interview of him, it is suggested that inter-
view of GOLDFIELD prior to that of RICH might not result in
furthering this investigation emd might prejudice the interview
of RICH. .
It is suggested that the Bureau and office of origin
consider dttensive interview of RI(^..
NY will iromptly advise of any further information
received from WEINGARTEN.
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G-2 files contain no additional pertinent
information concerning the subject.
On information copy designated St. Louis in view
of title wliange.
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offlee,' an lores tigatlon Is presently being conducted for the purpose of
Terlffing and corroborating certain inforaation concerning the aetivlties
of Perl as fnznished by Uax and Relene EUtcher. One of the statesents
of the Slitchars rras that they vere present In Hev Toric City during tho
.early part of .Septedt>er, 1944, and attextded a dinner party at one of the
Kev Zork restaurants vith Julius Rosenberg and several of the senbers of
the Rosenberg espionage network. According to the Elltchers, 71111am
Peril together vith bis brother, Samuel Benjamin Perl, the latter of vhom
mas in uniform, mare present at tMs dinner party. . •
A check has been made of the Bureau files under the names Arthur
J. Oilbert and Paul J. Buekoviteb^i tmt no identifia^e derogatory Inforsao
tion mas located as to either of these '^dirli^al^«t!i In viev thereof, the
r ULnneapolis and Philadelphia divisions are being requested to conduct .
immediate intervievsof these individuals, unless information appears in the
files of those offices mhich mould make these interviews inadvisable. These
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to recall ‘nhother Sutterperl say hare gone to Hea lork City duricg the
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These Intarvlevs should be glrea expeditious attention In '
Tiev of the fact that a Federal Grand Jury in the Southern District of
New Toxic on l!arch 13« 1951) rotumcd an Indlctnant cbar.;.i.ng 'Gillian Perl
with violation of the Porjuxy statute* The results of your interrlevs
should be fnnlshsd. to tbs Ken Xbrk division^ as veil as the Bureau^ and
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^ 1- ,. Jxs« jpAh?. tra s not a Icczl girl and knen nothin? about her baek^ound* Ste irr^
-„j , also £ii"ihnb they hac: lived here for afj.roxiiriately four incnths and that.//.-.’.
1 . . ; . when toiqr roved thay went to 1U5 Broadw^, Long Branch, Ke».* Jersey* --/.rrf^
'■"' ' '. * ' lira, lI<uU0RlZ SUTH, ovmer of Hudson House, 55 Hudson Avenue, _ ,1...,.^=
V " " Hec Bank, Her Jersey', checked her records jid found that Hr. and iJra, "-• y -
JCHL registered on Jvly 1, 152;0. Lrs. S/X'XH said that reeeUed
■ ': kr. an'i Lrs. HARR to the extent that she knew that JOrl BAR?, was erj^loyad I " '
j at Fort licnr.outh and that lirs. BARR did not irork. She said that she re- l
called receiving sose call addressed to GOIJ^r 'Ai£ vliich was claiised ty Urs. -] .
•r i . BAR.;. Its, S-JTE was unable to throw aiy further lipht inon cither JOiX .'. -fr
- -.• or ilAlX- BAHit, . . . ..-
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* " Records of the Merchants Credit Bureau, oOl Bangs Avenue,
— - .. Asbury .arkj.JIew Jersey' which also covers Long Branch and Red Sank, Kew/r/ .
i .' • jersey contained a record on JOEL' BARR dated ^ce.Tber 6, 19li0. The inquixy "
i / vtas on behalf of the New Jersey Trust Conpaiy, long Branch, Her Jersey *..»■ .t
\ “ nnd contained information to the effect that JOEL BARR'S wife (name not .**
• shcEfTi) was er loj'ed by the TOD ^ COKSTHL'CTIOM COUAHI, Honmouth Avenue, , / :
Red Bank, Hew Jersey as a clerk. Ho additional infomation other than what"' “
I has alread 3 ’' ‘been set out in this letter was contained in the credit report..
- ■ ‘ Vt, RLX B. LI?Pi:.*C0TT, Fersonnel Manager, TULi.SR CCriSTaoCTIO'r! .'j-xJ
> -r X'.^ r/JTY, 95 xjonnouth Avenue, Red Bank, Hewjepety, produced a 3 x 5 card.
if This card ras made oat in the name of LAiy2'^(>0L!;?Aft3, 11*5 Broadway,
Lon.? Branch, liew Jerscr.-^.The card reflected that this person was hired 7 . 1 ;. --
I bn llovenber 25, 19l;0 as a steno^ranher and discharged on April 11, 191*1.
I It. LirilUCOrf said that LaIHE GOLDFARB had worked for her entire period v.
I of ei!«lp7T:ent at Fort ilonmouth whore the llUaiR CC&idTK'JCTIO:; C0!1'A1.'1' was
j .. j;. carrleting a project. The card contained infonratioa to the effect that / f"
' . 7 . . the employee wais 20 years old. a eltlsen, bom Vjoy^ 2, 1920 and was issued ''
I . I j iocial Security Ho. 577~22--62u6. Hr. LlPi IltCOTT said that he had personally ' ‘
f I supervised that project but was unable to recall the ec^loyoe.
! '.i l/ • -It is suggested that the Office of Origin give consideration to'
the possibility of locating JOEL BARR'S alleged wife through her Social ...—
! ■ Security Humber. _ _ .
Mo further investigation will be conducted by this office. .RTO ^
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SYNOPSIS OF FACTS; T ^ 7T
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!i ./ I J '■‘'- ■ Records of the Western Electric Company at : :. -.,X 7 " -
■ . Kfamey,' Hew Jersey, reflect that JACli^ULiCOVER, bom 'V^^rr';-. ,
I -ij-X-l:"' July- 24 ^ 1907 in New York City, reside'd at 64 West 192 nd . — T i - r U-it.-
Street, and had been employed by the V/estem Electric ^ ’
r^v^Vfi' •’ ' plants- at _Kearnpy, New Jersey and at the 11 th Street,' Vv
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Hew York City plaht,~frdarJune7 1944 'to- January,. 3 . 94 S*’iJ?!£^'l-%^^il:”’; '
? -- On June '22, 1954, JACK ' OJLIOOVER , "who resides
t : *^t 2775 Kingebridge Terrace, Bronx, New York, was V " : ....C*':*- *],.*
-f iV* interviewed by the writer. Mr. CULICOVER stated that he - ■
• is presently emploved as a linotype operator for the.. >-r..‘-. .
I o.'rii Sycamore Press, 2l4 Sullivan Street, New York City. Ho
- : stated that he is a United States citizen having been
y;;.; ; ; born on Jvdy 24, 1907 in Hew York City. Mr. CULICOVER
stated that he is married.- His wife's name is SYLVIA 7 ,-
f and they have two small sons. ^ ^ ■:.
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. - Mr. CULICOVER stated that he had formerly been "X',
- employed by the Western Electric Company at their Kearney,.; ;
,, . Hew Jersey plant, *•’ at their Packard Building plant and ..r
i their 42nd Street plant, latter t»/o were located in How T'.I..-
I ■ York City. ' He believes that he mot ALFRED SaRAHT throu^‘
■ employment at Western Electric where they were both ■
employed in the Electrical Enginct.rlng Division on the •'-■ r
. ' -BBmc radar project. He believes that SARAHT and ho
•■i *5V;>.V '' - . were fellow employees at Western Eloct'*l^?ftckard Building -•
'< V plant and at thoir 42nd Street plant. He recalls that ' r/. .
-vr';!v:' ; onco he visited ALFRED SARAIIT'S apartment, which was .
■';*V*yy“ .located at .65 Morton Street in the Oreenwhich Village '
i Section of New York City. In placing the date of this
visit he stated that in all probability It was either in • ■!'
' 1944 early 1945 in that SaHAHT was not married at the'
$ . time.;;;.":,. ji-ir.V.";.
/ ' It:i 8 recalled that SARiOT was married in
* • Jnly , 1945 * . ■ * . • J "jr-*. */* s**;*.*- '*'**. .
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Explaining' further as to the reason for his ■•
, V visit to SAIt, JIT'S apartment, ho stated that they
’ had occasion, in connection with their official duties'^
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’ lyfl'crop^oyod v;ith Western Electric, te visit the Bell Vr - i^'-y . ..
Xsfs vhich were located In the general vicinity of SARAIIT*S^' j
apartomt at 6$ Morton Street,' He rocallswt^t he accon5)aniedt^^-t;.;Jv
.. , SahAlIT.to his apartment during their lunch/Sxa that ;;
played for him on his guitar. Ho recalls that .
possibly SARi-jTT" played- soac^ records- for him-on Jiis.rtcprd _
1 - player v;hile they were in the apartaont, ; • ' - “i
.riv^-i-‘V Mr. CULICOVEH recalls that SaRiJTT was married dn
*’ July, 1945» 'fil'd the employees in the ijlcetrical
IT/",. iinginecring Division at Western Electric l^ad a luncheon-.-
^0^ him, most probab^ immediately prior to his wedding,^., ;-. 7 -.^iu'-.--
i-' ' f Ho recalls that SAHal'n'S intended bride. Miss LOTJISl^OSS,' , -
-> V • also attended this luncheonx-^^e recalls shortly after ‘
SaRaET'S marriage that hi/'wanBferred from the Western ■
Electric Co.^jany to Bell Labs and he recalls visiting v ^ v -v: - i
•jiARAET at Bell Labs on a couple of occasions during the 'J;.-
latter 1945 and 1946 period. He stated that his visits
.to Bell Labs '*fere in connection v/ith his official duties
V7ith the Western Electric Company and he took this
opportunity to *'say hollo", to .SARAKT while thoro, . -i
\ ' Mr, CULICOVEH further advised that S/JUirr,‘44:-44.. ^ .
in the latter part of 1946, moved to Ithaca, Kew York,
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where he was to. have continued his education at Cornell i* -V-
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University. He recalls having received several « -
Chrlstznas cards from SARiJIT thereafter and a birth
j 'v-tv? • annoimcoment for possibly SAKAHT'S first; child. V .. ^
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CULICOVEH stated that SAHAHT probably obtained
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his home address from a list of hone addresses maintained
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by the Western Electric Company of all employees. Ho
stated that he does not dofxnitoly recall having furnished
his address to SAHaHT and believes that he obtained it - ;
through a listing which was available to the personnel ;
at Western Electric. . He said that definitely he do^s c V 4^
not recall SaIi/uvT having ever visited him at hi a residence.
A - -- Concerning JOEL BaHRj CULICOV^ stated
T • ho recalls him as having boon employed by the Western
' rcc ali y that JOEL BARR would of ton coll SARART on the'
■■• tfclophono and he believes that BARR was a close
, confided that JO£I>^’iRR had been an .active Soviet agent 'y>
■ United Stat/2^^ prior to his leaving for Europe •.. . y ,. .. .
I to act further as a Soviet agent in 19i4.6. '■ '
’ r ■ H'lVID GRE^^^GLASS is currently serving a f if toon V>v.'-3
year sentence for conspiracy to concait espionage.;/^
V ■; ;•>■■ .Mt. 'cULICOVER stated' that ALFRED SARANT vas’-^-^tefeglv^.'^r
V'.; .; seemingly uninterested in his work at V/estern Electric
• would absent himself quite often from hie work, -
. gg bclicvod that somctimcc he would be gone a day or so
I : and thereafter would return to work. He stated that V.' - ^ '
- although Western Electric frowned on this practifeo/f';'-Ti^y^;^^?:ft:4-^.^^^^^^^
.;A > ' they were in desperate need of capable Engineers and ho* - „. ;:r^, 1
i-V. '■ that SARaRT - was excused du(r to this
! Bo^ stated that neither SARAOT' or JOEL BARR
' had over made any request of him to furnish
> - information pertaining to espionage of any typo. He
* stated that he had ne ver boon a member of the Coiaminlst ■
; Party or any of its front organizations with the
! -v.'VV' - exception of membership in the International Workers 7 ^
•/;.... Order (IVfO) for approximately one yr.ar in the 1948*
V^:£. • 1949 period. -He stated further that ho and his %#ifo .:
I ' joined the^.'O on the advise of their family physician '
7 : : Dr. KE3l3^(^%4iutCUS, who has an office at 95 West 195th. /V' J: .-7 'v; /.
street in tnc'Bronx. He recalls that Dr. 'hAKCDS had 7 . . r ^ . ' 7. J
vA-'/:- nsaid something to the effect, that joining the IWO was ‘7^74
7;^,7-.- e good idea since it off ered . inexpenisva insuranco and^ujy7:^7W-nr-^.v^
7 • medical treatment. Membership in the 3W0 was entered '7 -.7*77? T
\|’''r7r-*. into in order to defray the expenses of an lmpondihg'"^-^#p^>.‘^^‘?^7‘7f • •
n. childbirth. - Mr. CULICOVER stated that when ho Ifcarnod :."7-
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which had been declared subversive j ho *
v::>; ,^-^^^:irni-,i cdlat clT wrote to tho TWO In liew York City and
. 4 laiited.his desire to be dropped from their membership “
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• '■' ’ .T- 1 , of known rtllability, advised on November 25 # ‘ r*' • .' ,;
949 , that JACIC CULICOVim , bom In 1907 , and SYTltl/L -' ’=^:? •'
CULTCQAf LR'. bom -in 1916 . wore members of IWO Lodge Number
746 in New York City as of April, ; 1949 * •' ' ';'V'' '; ’■
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.%v{' V -0 = - - Tlio IWO has been designated by the Attorney ^
s 4 ^-; V; General of the United States pxirsuant to Executive V;^Ari;£?\Wrr.>.; v
-. Order. io 45 o. ;/ . • . , •-• ■: . -r:^ y "'
;. .- ■ ;.-.-.',C \ II. IirrERVliilV op 3ID2^iiY GORDIN
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■• During the’ permissive search, mentioned previously#
the following entry was noted in SiiRikNT»S small address..- \ .T*.
notebook: .-; •-.- =. . ■ F- .. . ' .. •-.•.■• ■’ V.;' .i: ’'r ■...■;* ;
■Vtf ^ VAj i> ' .-i -rV: . %z ^ : ’' • ? ^ t • 'h ^ ‘ Xv- 1?: C - 'Z?-^ <^.*yyrT V«*_ *
.■:-fe:r>;’:'-;<: -l- ■:- ■ ■■-.-''■7 ‘ ; ' '7-- ••‘F ' • ' ■' “SI^^RDIH 7
1084 TtoAve
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IhAvenue . :- ; • •• •• F ■' ~ 7 /n'‘ ‘ J V'
Near' 12 th Street
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* -• SIDNE1^\G0RDIN, a ”free-lancc** cartoonist, who
i"'. .. is also a sculptor with residence at 106. -Fourth Avenue 'I.!;; .-■ --
'- New York City, was interviewed by the writer on June 2Z, ^
1954, concerning his knowledge and association with . ; - " -i-j' ' v, " '
'■■' '• SARANT# 'i ■■- * i'i: ■ - C" .'^''-r-'r -j:--?;;:'y'^;-“-=-:»'’~.t?--'-'
. ,r— ■-'. * ,' * * ' * ** * * '•' ' * 7*** '' ’*■*■ ■** ' **■ ' '* ’ * * • "*- V. '^*'' '■ L F-' T-v *^*7' '
V-r-i /• ■ LOUISSVsARAMT hna advised In Interview -that ' V-JFr" •• .
-'r—. -'V <.'■■• ■-.• ■ ' ' ... -. - -. . -••• v.-, .^-r. . ‘X: ..
-fy^-y-:--- *■ LOUISE^ARANT has advised In interview that . s; 7'''' -
^r. -. ., . GORDIN, whom she 'met only once, is a friend of her .
• Jt ’.!.: husband and on artist who attended Cooper Union.. GQiU>IN’-''>
'. -odvised> that he was . a classmate of ALFRLD SAiiANT at Dooper ' Union' * ' -
:-iVr: r . graduated with SAiliJiT In the class of June, 1941*, /-He c;,.vv,--i-r^
pkyn fi4i CAftni.-T* Tinian^ ' •'*.■*" 7 \
•y^,. ;. .- . ^ student while at Coopt-r Union. ... .. a . . . ..k*- 1 ’ 7 '. '
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r. ■ ; V ' ‘ " Another classnuto was DAUX'SIlAi'IRO who was also . SVJi^Uri '.]..
\ir,y y: ,
an ^rBTt’^ttudent# s^HiiPIhOp according to GOjvDIN, is currently
en^loyed as . a professor of Graphic Arts, Bennington ...-■ :^.,J .
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ii'V. ; ■ 'cmlcsgc, Bennington, Vermont*' He stated that SHAPIIiO ' -ry \'r »
^;>'^ , ‘:v,, -mitxdfcd girl by the name of AW^ and they live at J2 '■'i
- Carmine Street, Gretm/hich ViltSgc, New York City. •.
.This "irtiy their nddreas at the time they 1 eft New York ■! V7
City, for Bennington, Vermont in about
>^-.;;>rv .-■ It will bc^ also ~nd ted thKt these entries^ appear
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"in SAPiANT*S small address book: •^■-.vr:'r./:-;;.?''.'/.i
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. :r. ;. ..V.- . . .J . 7P It
■v.i:c :.-.r-' ■: , '■ .72 camint^.C'
i:,S'r’ r-irE:-- ' -.; .■ v •- • s:- - ■- : : - ch 3-8133 . i-T .t .t-t :.^/:■; 4;,,^■t■^,i;^^■s •
•''' /:*' • GOKDIN stated that he last saw SARiiNT during
■‘’D.sH SHkPIRO ■■
CH 3-8133 :^v:.tc-l v.
the middle 1940' s. He met LOUISE SiiRANT at SiOuJiT'S
apartment He e:^lalnod that he also lived in the Village
'V . V •‘■. at that time at his present address, and by chance met
' SiJbtS^T on the street. SaIUKT Invited him up to .the
- apartment and there he met SAHiJfT*S wife. He believes ■•;■ ;
V?;-;* - '. ■ that hc'may have then furnished his addrc.8S to SARAin?.'^^^^;^’''-
--^r^-T.-'.' ! GOtiDlW referred to his o;m address book and failed 7 . .
' to locate SAliaNT'S name or address. He permitted the''-'C"':,?"'^'"'|^^
vn*ltcr -to examine his adtlress book and no entry concerning ’
65 Korton Street, Oreenwhleh Village, New York City
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•: ., SARaNT was noted. He dot.s not believe, that SiihAKT has
V- ever visited his apartment on Fourth Avenue. -He ' '■' .^;
explained that while students at Cooper Union, they .were rv .Vr.r. .. V
friends and be believes l;hat SAR/iNT may have worked on=
the school newspaper with him. GORDIN stated that
did cartoons -for the-school newspaper ot Cooper Union.
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.;l ' - • . GOKDIN stated that SARaNT was very interested,^-. ^ ,,
4V-‘^.C; ’..t in the guitar, aiid played it extremely well. .He ' • .
,i^L;~'^r.j‘y^^..Bpcci£i±izcd in classical music. Be recalls that they
'A, -:!:•• X... were forever discussing the merits’ of playing classical .
music on the guitar as compared to paino. ■ ,'• ' ,. 7 ..
k if. ■ 'i.- ( '**:* . ■*** .. .... ' . ^ ..■»v ^ 4 .,.^ **».,* ^ ■* * -^T ■.
■!■■■••- ■'■•V'Jl -V -VO/ ••' ~vV ^ .- '. -'•r .■-•^.;:.l [i-/; •-/
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,.<.V:i--.'.i ' thbj tvcr had any political discussions and ho states an
tHit ho has no infomation as to whothor S^Jt/illT was ovbr^ !,^v'4;^3f]/..v .-
ii ino wb a»» of the Comnunlst Party or xmy of its front
:'V?/V'.''. orgi‘.nlzctions. He stated that he has no knowledge concerning'--"^ '
OORDDI. advised that ho is married to VlCTORIAcv/Z^sV^gi
SIiiRRA and she writes captions for his cartoons which • -..v -’v ■
appear in such magazines as "The Saturday Evening Post" '
■ and "Colliers", Ho stated that his cartoens are signed /. ■ , - •
;. "sivic", ■ ■■ ■• - . - . • . ' ;•/ r' /-i , ■ ;
COUDHT expressed the belief that SlLiPIHO has
had little contact with SAItAHT since college. He expressed
the belief that SHAPIRO'S relationship with S/uaJiT could
not have been "close” because he believes that either .
DAH or ikNN SK/^PIRO would have advised him of their contact-'-: — '- t'- -
GOHDIH stated that he is not now nor has he over -v/: v-
bocn a member of the Communist Party .or any of its front /a
organizations, •. ,.v • . : . ‘ ' . .-I- v. ■
The indices of the Hew York Office failed to
-reflect any additional references to GORDIN 4md there ’"i/
r are no references to his wife VICTOhlA^IiiRK^S^^ORDIK, •' ^ JL*' '
~ m, interviews 0? kr; iiND ^sy ' ^ ■'
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’ The following entry appeared in SARANT'S address
book which was obtained during a permissive search of - ■ ' .
“ SaRANT'S Ithaca, Now York residence on July .19 and 20, Jl950t.
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>/ritor on August 9f l95Uf*th:4t a SOI^OII
and wifc^ whose first name he did not know, had
v>.l -w ■ 7 ’ resid ed i n Apartment 6B from approximately the mid 19h^}
^iv.;>/';- :until TSIL I948-I9I4.9 period. Mr. Fldh’^VuJf stated that
;.^:x; Vhc did not have any, further Information pertaining tothCM/,\:z,^^7{.t:r.^
-and-: does_not -know, where -.they. are. currently re si ding i ^
^■^<ip'--irr-kiyDr. KA^^EuJm (DOS), l82-kl 80th
. New York, telephone nuiabcr Jk 3-3826, advised the vrritcr ..
%?i'v 7 V. •«« iils-iie*L Q -locrii i^Un*-. yi a t>r>n 1 -hr-r> f'.m.rtMrtW nn/t ’
y- -r
on Aug^t 9, 19$k» that his brother. fiOLOMOH and wlfo ' 'S
CLalR^TiHilRR currently reside in an apartment building “;--''C'
locate'? at . 32 Beaumont Circle, Tuckahoe, New York, and Cwji^-jir.vcr’ .,-:^
have telephone number SPcBCI^ 9-6173* Dr* SHERR believes . -
that his brother is erjployed.as an lihglneer for the --..•:r;';f'--.^7: .*•: '" ••
General Precision Labs, Incorporated, 63 Bedford Tto cd^
Mr
’ .. • w»i;S-^8 the writer. .Mrs. SHEKR is temporarily residing, kM--:-. M
V during the summer months, with her parents, the S^jKUjjL. '"-s
'..- .XJt IHSBERG S in Cottage Humber 60, Cortland Colony, • v*' v .^a;.
r Brandise- Avenue, off of Route Number 6, near ?eok^^CLll.,'^>j:/!^ ^
I v New York. Mrs. GHLKfl stated that she is a United BtateB:^''7^^ivi?-;iPl^f'>rv>v
it:*7 7 . citizen, having been bom on November 6, .1921 in New ' . ,
York City. In Jtine, 19li^3» she graduated from Brooklyn ''/!’*'• V- ... ..*
j Brooklyn, Now York,'-v;.Y;:- . 'MM .:.
'' **tcall8 having met iJ^TKSD LiJOiNT at
J 'Western Electric Company, where she was employed os a “ ’ ;:‘7 ,' ‘.;i;, '. . ..
j Junior Assistant Engineer (Expeditor) from September; 19^3 fc‘^7
* '^■■.-./‘M until ^ the ?all of 19l|-9f in their 5kth Street plant and
' V i|-2nd Street plant. She stated that she worked in the ■ ^
J ~Mrk-
I
^cetric Company.
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'7 '- ' * ?;. ■-•::.;•.<• X yi'-:- ' f> 5 ‘- ‘ *
attend a Tnusiccl which waa held ct SiJLtKT*S.65 Norton ' v I
root, Grccnwhlch Village^ How York apartment. This \ ’X2-L--w-^
Invlt-W-on had been extended to her by SARi.MT inaomuch 7
: - aa she h 4 id discusaed raiaic with him ct Western in.bctric
and he had learned that her husban d was a paduate
the Julllcrd School of Music, New York City. She recclla'
li that JO£L B/JIR waa hlao present at this musical as vcrc 'r-^^V^^fyt-f^
■ a number of other “music lovers”. She does not recall
-. tho namca of any of tho other individuals vho were pre 6 cnt.-^^^;^> '---;
, 1 ^ . :v :• Mrs. SHERI? recalls that at a luncheon given ■.'':'7: v r^.: ' .',
. * to* ALFRED ftxJUHT by enploycca at the Western Electric
. Conpany, she (Mrs. SJIERR) met LOUISE ROSS, the girl who ^
subsequently ,n:j*ried S/J?rtNTI She stated that_.this
~luncheon"Wus 'ih 7 honor of SARhST due td his iaipending . ‘
, iBarrl.'.ge».' -l'. v * c*'' -t' ■•- tv.- •-•‘'i ■■ — •'.-'■■-V’’' •“ •.• •-
i
w Mrs. SK2JIK stated that she may have furnished 7:?^ t':
•'their 1150 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York address to • ' .v*
iiLPHED SiJLiHT. She recalls having received u Christraaa - -'- -7
- cord from the SARaHTS shortly after they were married, r.-
' This was^ the lust contact that cither she or her husband ..y. •:
' bad had yith SeJiaHT. She stated that she did not know . -
bis current whereabouts and has bad no association with ^ z j.
.him,' In addition to tho information furnished above.
,... :■ • She stated that SARANT hod never, to her knowledge^,
approached her. to. furnish any information pe‘r taming to .-iy.y: v=
her job 'at the Western Ele ctric Company, nor did she • ‘-7 :
: have any information pertaining <to copionuge. She said - ■ 7 -
that Si Jhjrr was, in her opinion, either a Communist or ^
" a fellow traveler; however, she has no definite recollections
- of anything which she could base this opinion on. She
did state that it waa well known at Western Electric that .;-.:'-:;
she was very anti-Concnunist and she believes that SaRANT • ^
. would .^arguc for tho Communist side In discussing any .
. matters pertaining to the Communist Party. . . .;
‘"'‘•'•T T-2,' endther Government agency which
^secj^lty type Investig ations, has advised that ,
I York 56# Hew York, was on thu_. •-.- . i
b^d
btC0
.-• ..-yrfc =r -A fri 'vr-- ' V- -.‘. V'-O-v--.---
• * " • * ■’ #■ ■ ^ ^ A jr\
scrr.r.^t:
'U • r ^ *rv.- ---*•
nlillng list for the Fedcrotion of i^rchltects, LngineerB^ / . I-f^'-.i- ■^ * i
•Q|f-ml 8 t 0 , and Technicians (F/a>CT), May - June, 1944-*:U:: i^J .*1
'■ “ *' -Mrs. SHERR advised that she was never a member
7/JiCT. She does recall, however, that mail ^
rcceivcd-in-her-numo -at- the :J.150-Grand- Concourse, address ^ •:
f.l- -■ - from this union, in possibly 19U4 when they were attcu^ting :
*vc.:l/i:.v. to organize the .employees at . t^ Western Lleetric Con 5 )caiy* ^^
%:•* i\r' ..i
• /'p’ ^ The following information was taken ^pm Pages '
264 and 265 of "A Story of the CIO*' , by BENJ^fllNi^OLViffiO:
•y-i.*;- r- /
.■ ■• FAECT was organized in 1934 mainly from .. - . / -^•.' c'T"' .-', ■ '
the technical staff in the Works Progress jidministratlon (WPA)^-; 'P* ■ ■
From the very beginning, the Federation has been under
Stalinist leadership and its rai^k .and file ore chiefly -7 . .
-V ;. . • .'remarks regarding this organization: ■.;•;• " .i:: v-ivLi
■Cl' ■■'/:. V. r ‘ ;. r .r - - •■.• ••?".^...'l;.‘..v^^ K.-r-.'- r’ ~ '
''r.;':* . ■ ' • ■ it... 1. •
r rPP ' ;> “When I discovered that :!• was bein'* used aspL;^^
: ^rriP P--; a front for -a group of Communists I resigned,'^ not ' *;"■ •
i . because of opposing Communism but "because I oppose tricking a % ■;
'my fellow workers into an orgonlzotion which failed to P
. p* ■ be a bona fide labor tuiion but was in reality a tool of ^ .-V;: i p
.Vv*--V.-' Communist Party*"^,. , '.y
' ^ ' ' -..The ."New York Times®, of March 24* 1946, Pagc.26, i^7:i^7t,-c^^^^^ 1
Column 4 » contained the information that the P/«£CT, .p'_' y.
’ Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) had merged
- . into the United Office .and Professional Workers of iinerlca''’Pra;-P'?P":^
-xx; V - (uopWii,)-. •. =•.• .• : p.. .-.rv ' r w"". '
Z'l (i *
■ - The. "CIO Hews”, issue .of February 20, 1950> on V-;;r>
^Pago 6*; Column 1, contained .an article ref le cting that X"f .
the CIO Executive Board had voted to expel the VOPWA
from the CIO effective March 1, 1950* -^ The Board c<lted,
according to the article, on a report if lied by the Trial v
Commlttoe appointed to hear .the charges against the UOPU*i,\5?7i;:.XrY-vii-.
‘J^ 4 VC ^ v*t r •. *“1^^ z*T^ ^‘■** ^ ♦*' ^
^-«^»i 5360 '
adopted which in cny wcj runs counter to tho policies' of
1 “ ^ .‘*4 - -
• the. Coanxunis.t .P.firty. or tc_t^_interes_ta of the Soviet
■•?i':v-‘='l
Dnion cs these interests ere reflected in the program of
the CosEaunis t . Pcjty • ■“ ..v ->. --r^ rt- ••> .'• = V
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‘V
-. ?*'. ■ V *;“ . '*' * **' ■ ' ■ '* v't’V '
rt, husband of CL^^IBE SHEH^l, iAiose
■■x* , •a
^'-^y :- : : .SOhOmU SHERrt, husband of CL<iIRE whose
interview Wi.s reported Imtaediately before in this XMsport, .il-,
was interviewed by S** Ci'iHILL und the writer on August
19$k* Mr, ClIhRn is xosociate Section Bead of the aB , -
Blectrcnics Section, General Precision Labs, Incorpora tedj : .!•
;,63 Bedford ..Hoad, Pleasantvi'llc, Sew, York,
‘“cr^ •f ^
‘-'-i ' Mr,' SHLUn is nn American' oitisbn,' having ■boen■. 7 ^‘vX.:^f':^V•^■.-:',’:'
- - 'born on March 23, 1916, in the Bronx, Hew York. He
'. attended City College of Kew York (CCNY) from 19314- to v
T^.v „ 19365 the Julliard School of Music' from 1935 to 1939 , '
' where he rf.ceived t B3 Degree; Columbia Dnlvcraity, 1940 '.-;;..y-y.7>'(;
- ^ to 191|2; and Hew York University (HYU) from 19UB,<f?t^T#-^1'rT'-
where he rereivi^d a BA Degree,. .-: • . ri;!: ? f • '
^ ^ -V - ■ *. .-4 ^ , .4 V..^ , ^M*r ^ f
1 ,/ : ■ ' 'Mr, SHhltR stated that he. has a secret clearanc^:!i/jj^i^4'^ i
V I • werking on an Air Force contract. The' Office of Special'^l'^^;..'^^^^"!' .
I Investigation (OSI) is the security cognisance agency.T
:0 I stated that he had been working for the General
^ Precision Labs since 1951 having been previously employed ".:
Iv; .. [T - from September, 1914.6 until 1951 £-t the Federal Telo-
7 ■' \\ conciuni cations Laboratories at Hutley, New Jersey, ■
Vva, . *4 - .4 4, « I'' ^ - i a... * 4 ,*^ ; • -.4.- ax . •
• ■ • - He ‘Stated that in the 19144-1914-5 period, he
!;>rrfv ' accompanied hio wife to the^^-partment of aLFH^D SARAHT,iir"*^’*; 'h.'
^ -which was located in the Greenwhich .Village section of • - ,
‘ Hew York City. He stated that the purpose of the pontact *
■^AL-: 7 • - ' with SiJtr^T was to have dinner with him and later that
... evwi.ing attend a musical at S44 Ra!TT'S apartment, .-He .-r-W|C'/'/=-^.^:^--^.-^,-
Z \~^ ». rec.'ills that he and his v;if<. went to SiJIjJIT'S apar^iment ’',1' -^1.,.*^;. _.
■ ‘during the early evening hours and thcreafter '&iJh'JIT
^7'^' accompanied them to a neighborhood restaurant .where
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' hJd dinner and thereafter returned to SiJlf%NT'S apartuent*
‘Kq believes thet cpproxlmetely fifteen people came to
^ photographs of yj-VMlD £*»Pudn?; however, he did not. recognise
of ;the photographs of JO:iL'_a<JtR.
-'■ = ' ^ Mr.' sjtiNT 'further‘'advl8ed''theV his' wifc7'ci«il^^^^
;. had worked with at the Western Electric Cos 5 )caiy
- where she was employed as a Jxinxor j.ssistant l^gineer*
SiXeJTT had extended an invitation for them to attend
one of his musicals, through his wife* He stated that
this was the. only contact that he has -ever had with
V t
,y->. -go stated that no one has ever tpproached him4v5>^v’-^:'/'e^ 4-T:
to furnish any Information of .in espionage nature* Ho '-V ~4-;-
said that he has never been a nember of the Communist
Party or' any of its front orgariizations.' -.-.--i - ;
Concerning his membership in the '?*^CT, 'he ',>^1-
.^‘-lated the following: 4; ',t ,■
/ **pprox^ three months 'after he went "to
r4ir;‘=l " work for Federal Tcleconraunlcatlons Laboratories, -.he
.v"'' be ccaic a member of the P^CT which was affiliated with v
. the LOPWA. This union was the official bargaining agent
- with Federal Telecommunications Laboratories. After
being a member of this organization for a short time, -• -4:
he rtalized that In all probability it was Communist :
dominate and controlled, and thereafter he sot upon'
V"- program of assisting several other men at Federal Tele-J;;^w-i'4ii.£:r4;f-’\
"%<- '4 • coroiunications Laboratories In a fight to rid Federal ‘ -V' .’Vy .
fj-s 4 . Telecommunications Laboratories of this union* He statcd'/I ? ; :-V" •.
vr.'that their fight was victorious and in the latter psrt "
’ ot 1956 or 1951 they were able “to have the Interne t io nsl iyO.;' ' ■
* ’ ®nlon of Lloctrical, Radio, and Kadiinc Workers, (lUE)
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llrks
K£i; D.XB KURTZ
»/ vW* -'-• •:* 3* -r*! ^‘wy: *• '
,4v..v .,', York, Among the itoiss located was c. Bates List
■■>• :,' containing names, eddrcsftcs, end telephone numbers • -^V"
.^W':V of various incivlduals and concerns, ijaong the entries
. -'iw-l.. ,.'...'ve' f- •/:-.. • • -Wii 9“7557V* '-v- •■-■'' fov j:. : '“V ^ -> ^
I vr>‘'' V’-* ’Ir ’ ^ '^r •'/; Vv- '‘■f *'" *. ^ ''*?' ‘/C! i" *'
^ * The following investigation has .been conducted
'r- : to '.Idunti^- this Individual: i ■.'.'.■i’-'/.: -t:-
!i contacted lUI licCLIHCIldy, elevator operator ct 201 West
•■ ^V:-f .. 16th Street, lir. KcCLXUCHLT advised that the aj£ .'■. {
erred to above is D. JiSVfti ^LSTOH . son-in-law of t;nw..-HT>
-i .^ - ■ : y Kmi TZ. ChainiUn of thJT^Sierican Labor Party (^LP).
, related that OiXSTOK, upon his return from the Havy, ■
Ij J"A‘Y< married i-HijiD KUrlTZ'S daughter and resided at his fathcr^^/^
in-law's apartment for two ycturs. \ .j V>
Mr.'McCLIifCH'JY further stated that ' g.^ST 0N and"
n '-r ^
i / ‘•^ 1 ^®” tall, 150 pounds, dark complexion, black vavy hair,^^':; :^!’V •>
1 ■^r.^’'-'* -''■••^rjrotind facfc^ and a good dresser*"' =?'>. V
DiXl; G/XSTOIT is the daughter And not the son-in-law ot -
Mr. and Mrs. /J5W.^DAKIWT2 of 201 West I6th Street,
York City. The infonuant stated that the G.J*ST0KS arc
currently residing in California; however, the home' 7
address or any further identifying -data was not f urnished
House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., contains
^ 'v -. the greatest efforts to oaptiire the entire ^'imcrican'^^\•:•;r^Ti'^^^
’ .I :....; Labor Party throughout Hew York State. They succeeded.
'in capturing the Manhattan and Brooklyn sections of th(i'
-^^Y^':‘~ American Labor Party but outside of . New York City they hay655^;v^^^^^^
y-l'V' been unable to win control, •
" ■"* ■' ■ * "(Spoclel "Conniittce oh On-/jnerican’V.ctlvitie'8iT'‘\'^^^^5^i^'!^^
Mar<^; 29,M9l+4, .
" ‘^ '' ' ■ ' " Loong •organizations that are victims of 1"
'Comanmist denlnation. * a '- \ ■
I "(California Comnlttee' on Un-American AotivltiosV-^^'>*?t'^'^
^ Report, .19lf8, pages 40 . end, JA
■’ On June 22 , 1954 # Mr.' LVlRT Ie.TJ3LK, superintendent - '
-.i'Of thcT^Ol West I6th Street apartment building, .was
* "•*»*>' •Vv^' vQ .'i' '-*!'#• ;v . /» r iV' ^ v. "' /•>•' r ■
V- >11 .^' :a* #V^ '•?T - v; ' e a'.. * r .- s,'-. *7‘v^ '^--^* v'*. ."*
1 -7- 'i •-■■-■: •■'•>•. •,■-■</ ':. ' ;;.-^ r' ;- ' •-’•i^'‘-.Av.'.. Vi 'vV.'.r-lS’^-''i'nr 5;
■ -.vv-'-v' '-.‘vi-.v.v.; .- i - : ^•^.-Y^V-‘--■■^'-.:.: .^^7■•^ - '
''i' .* Vjj* z *■ z* ‘‘ Ti,*. ■ ' * ' ’/ " 1-* ‘ ' 'ft ■*>' ■' ** ’**"*•"■'' ■ * A z 'A .\i/ *'!r V ‘'A^- ^ %V^’ * ' •
J Z C * V--? £'3 ‘ ^ ' r ‘ - *- ^ A: -If i?- tZ-i - 'v '*• 'V-.V •:* 1*- > > i ’i ' '.V r, ‘.f -Ajl.V* ^ .
• .V.,. ^ S';-“*'*“ ** * ’ . ---z- »N .*.,^V-'- -r* .V V-';-* n * r «- ^- •
?a ^^360 .yi-;;:.,-:
'■■:* :-*-.3 :■■■ - •■- -■ •..'‘1.'- >• ..-.rvi--,.. .
■.;c4ntr;ctcd by tho nrltcr* He stated that DALE 0^*DST0H
:‘?'i| the daughter of EDWARD imd BEATRICE KUMTZ, who
v: tcnanij.in his building, Tho GiiLSTOHS lived with
: parents for a short period of tirac^ epproximately throe
- foxxf. years a{y^ end It Is his recollection that they bavo'4^^-^r~> 'r.i.'.
• at -least -one child,— Ho stated that- he -did- not -know — V>r*z> -
where the . 0. J-OTOKS arc currently residing nor did JtieV-v>5Wii^Sr^?=<V-^^^^
know UtLL G.iOTON'S husband's first name,' - ■ ^ - 'Vi 7.--7-.->-^- ”
'■Ty^S' : - '
• ”.' •• ■ ■ •>&, TRiJn* DIVOKii, elevator operator at the 201 ' ‘I'- y/ '.
l.’est I6th Street apartment building, advised S-» ItOY^X on y;‘ vi; J. ;/ '. '
June 22, 1954* that DtXE G*XST0H is the daughter of-. " * •
LDiJiD and SrA.Tl'aCE ICDHTZ and she if baitved to be //'.;?^^
•residing with her husband in Pasadena, Califoxnia, where'' ■
he • is a teacher in some unknovm name college or univcrsity,'^fZ^>^^z:-“
He believes th^t D*LL G:iSTuU‘S husband has his Doctor»s '7?iy7,^A'jl ; -
Degree; however, he does not know ills first name,
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1 • '4
»■,■ 7 ' ' ' ^ ' It is Mr, DIVOM^.'S recollection that 'Dr, • ••" "
G*XSTi>H was in Stockholm, Sweden sever.il years ago in 1^; -■r.':' ' ' '
.... connection with .the Stockholm Peace .Movement, •'
.i . ' Mr, THOiiX GTUDY, evening elev-tor operator
. .at the '201 West I6th Street wpartmeut building, advised - Z
.i- . the -writer on J\ine 22, 1954* that HXL G*iST0K is believed to; bc>V”Z ^
-. the .daughter of EDW^kiiD end BE.4TrJCiJ KUHTZ, He stated he
did not know the G.XSTONS' current udc?re8S nor did he know’.-.,':;;7;Jv ^
Vj* HXE G.XST0H*S 'husband's first n.'unc^ He believes that .'■
; 7* they have t i*ro children end resided with her parents in' z
this apartment buil«Iing several years ago. He believes '
yZ;;.,.- tho Old Chelsea Station, 217 West l6th Street, New York, yYii?/:'’' ''-
tv'r" -.zll*- Hew York. 'There was no return address card on Tile
•■■'■•' for D4XE ICDHTe G.XSTOH or anyone with the last” namo of
vyf v7.; •.'. . KCNTZ and/or •G*XST0N.-- v '-- '
y "'J*'-''' ' • ?• ” f~>-s t :'-.: '
! ' ' ' ,.?. ... ■- In the- "Dally Worker" , ah ."'East Coast Communist
v> *i*
' r** ' .*'Z •fc'"'
^ '
"'»Jr,V* vr t^* z;4^V. JT.;, ^ V- ~ 7^1 ‘Z ,t* Z z':%i ^ _-Y ^ •
^ ^ :t'' V . r*?
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^ ■ . V'r-. < -r^r-if - '1 -■ .--;-• V^ . .t j‘>'‘*''r* - c>:;j: >*^^.'33’.;? '.‘■?.:f.^ •--•
’^CUilT^UiSTO:
T-5» of knovm roliability, cdviacd oh Pobruary 14 # ’a'
1951 * thnt EDWARD KUlVxZg SH. vas r. member of the Communist -
Party In 1936 and 1937. KUNTZ. accord ins to T-5# was . . .,
one of the attorneys for liORTOK^OBifllX, who is currently .
serving thirty years at tho United States Penitentiary :
at Alcatraa for conapiracy "to commit espionage against . ■ ■' -W '- .. C
-the United States, .ov. '*'.; U-'-W ^
/.-* -.'r -7
[ V- ' T-6, of knov^ reliability, advised ax^ April 8-9# ;•' r'- rfi .
. • 1953 ^ that >Irs. eDWAR.jgCDlITe,. J5R. nee BEATniC^,>RCT,. ; . - ./ A.^Y.•'
I i . resigned her*'fr2chlng pbsition with the How York Board • •' ^
nee BhAT niC . *. . . a.^. ^ -•’».:i. r- - ■
\A . . resigned her triTchlhg pbsltion with tho Kow York Bonrd ‘ ‘ 7— -
. of Education during the course of an ixivestigation pertaining
'M. y/i to her suspected Communist .affiliations. Mrs. KUHT2# -- '
m V- according to T-6, was bom on June 15, 1896, in Kow York
’ t ■■/■ '■ ■■’ - City and- had been assigned to Public School ,33# Bronx,;;^; .Y> ;'' V;f-
1 Hew York*-... ■■■.■.-■-. ; .. .1 ..' ' 1
Concerning the brother of DrXE KDNTZ O^XSTOK, -‘-t-.Y:
EDIv'aRD KUHTZ, JR., T-7# of known reliability, advised on ,
December 10, 1943 that LD;AiRD KDHTZ, Jit. -was a member r*
of the Kearney, Shipyard Branch of the Communist Party;
in Hudson County, Hew Jersey* .-• •;
Concerning the wife of EDV/.JtD KUHTZ, JR*,'";T-8,-1Y -^'~Y-'Y
i ^ known reliability, advised on December 9# 1946, ''I.-
I - that the name of BlA.TRICIi KUHTZ, 1020 Gerard Avenue,* , : ;
i Y;~ . Bronx, New York, telephone number JE 6-6625# nppoarod •'* 1
I 'V -8 - member of the Stadium Club of the Communist Party,'
i ' I East* 167th Street, Bronx, New York*'
-K ' - ' - It Is noted that
}^4. • ':V the some first name as Mrs
-ijv.;.,.- .. arc not to be confused. ;■ ^
MIls>_EJKi.JlD.JK^fiI^^... has .
* EDW/iRD XaJNTZ, SR. and they ■ '
‘ - ^ -V • TV .
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5 T .'>• T^, *k, %v ‘ ‘Ha— ^ ' ' ^ * '^*..*- . , ' "• "Y. ,
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' Telephone nuiabcr Cfl 3-9262 la listed to' ' ^
vDohall :i:‘.p&rtment8f 126 Vest 13th Street « lTcw York
. V‘^-.- ^ • On September 21, 1950, Mr. SYD CH*JJILER,->i^"
i-.. superintendent r.t 126 Vest 13th Street, was interviewed JVrVjW.
by Sii TH0H..S P. tilTCHII,L.‘ Ho advised that he had been
>, . the superintendent at this address for the past five years, vr; .: ';;.
I'i- ■ He stated that the buildihe had been owned for the •..v v.
P-8t six .years by Mrs. ‘OOR.^iTTINSKI, 2ia Central Park X — X V . :
V;:, ' West, Now York City, but t^t all matters cpnccmxng 'I
j. V- tenants are handled by her daughter HiJailET^tHNSTjelH, ^ - :
40 Clarkson avenue, Brooklyn telephone BUCIQIIKSTKR 7-6260.';r!if'/7"f^^^^
'»• - '.■’ -■ ■ ■’.' ' • ‘ ■• • T* . • »• -1.-; ; - ; ^ .
•i: '^ Mr. CEiNDLEE stated that the apartment building -i;v>:v’..-rr‘/c.niv'*,
f:*f ’V..:is approximately 40 years old and has 42 apartments in '
- He added that in recent years, there had been a very rapidy’ U' /
‘ turn-over of tenants. . -i;- > I: ' . fV* ■ •' i y'-..' ; ''-ii: '
%;•’ y---' i- Mr. .CKijrDIEiH* pointed out that i.partment Number .15 ‘ /p-~'
at 126 West 13th Street, for the past two years, had been >/
occupied by E*.ILE«LtDEIX ’and his wife SKIhLLlSfiENDRIX. . i -
’Mr. CEJIDLER stattd that'EJLS HEilORIX is approximately.;
45 yeans of age and is . employed as editor and publi&cr. . .::y
■-y' of the *'Cariacturo*', a Grcenwhich Village feature news-; I
- paper with offices at 245 West I4th Street. CILJf.T5LER -
i-Jc .;3r V estimated that SHIRLEY HENMIX Is about 35 years
vri'-- ; - he believes that she Is also employed for this newspap er •'ia. V'--
•y. i-t . .
. -y ' * :4'r \r^ • ‘ •
■-VvV:H> '‘®5ii» vhich ho hciiovcB to ho TTcm her roinily In -v
' Ktn ncjot u. addressed to her. in hcr.iac.idon naae of SHIRLuX
■^Va^--'-'It-hrl8-boen-asce^taincd-^om-a-review-of-v^i•iou8-‘?^-;-J^J> - —
■ issues of the •’Cutldpcpcr" for 194^ that one IL^ILL .>
: vas connected i/lth the “World Telegram*' (Art) and was V::;.::fC- -
ki--' - listed on 'the editorial staff* ^
.'V- ‘ » -■ ‘ * 7 *
Vi^v;il^.v - ' . The “Guildpaper*' was the official organ -
: '.. -the New York Newspaper Guild *;/*;. ' .•
|il, which ho bclieveB to bo fr^ her family in
^y/i :
.- . On June 22, 19S4/«rs. ILJli.IeT BSJlHSTili:,
'40 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn 26, Hew York, telephone
number OR 2-6504# advised the Ynritor that the HLNDRIXAS
i
I < ■ raoved from her apartment building at 128 West 13 th Street,:, .
* -.V.". ." . New York City, in August, 1951# leaving no forwarding
l -addresc. Mrs. B2RJISTEIH stated that In reviewing an Xv-p. 'I
^ij .V - application for rental dated 1946 and executed by the. : . . .; v vi- : •
4 X.;.'. • .Ei:>JT)Ri:AiS, it »xaa noted that Mr. HAKDRIX hnd formerly
i| ■ fesided at 403 West First Street in Layton, Ohio,
aX. - i * . been •eM,/loycd there by tlic* Dayton Jcnarnal Herald.'
2 X ■M-s a reference, Mrs. HliNhRiX gave the. Union Square Savings . V .- -
I X.= 7 ‘.v r " Bank, 20 Union Square, Hew York City. She, according
to Mrs. B^HSTLIN, had an account there tmder her maiden'..i/?-’^'fAXr'X
Savings Bank, 20 Union Square, New York City, on Apr 11.30.,
* .1945 closed her account on July 9, 1945* 5^-9 stated .A v
^ if:’ ■ that she was employed as Junior ^.ssistant Engineer " A V”!
...-A , Tho information furnished by T-9 is not :to
bo mudo public except in the usual proceedings following cXXvX'- -
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• • ' T-IO, of known reliability, odvlacd that SHIRLjiy-:^jAr: .Al
'. -laiflDRI^ and her husband Hi.ILE EEWDUX, as of July, 1951, '
-resldcfi at 2 West 16th Street, Kew York 11, Hew York, and a
' ,* ‘V lOD West llfth Street, Hew York City. • ’- : V; - i .-
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. - V'"” ■• •' It' was ascertfvined at the Old Chelsea I*oat Of f ioo ,
Station that on July 7. 1953# H^tlLls HL-TDRIX filed a change .";'■ a .■
. .of address card indicating that he could be reached in /
..^.-.V - core of General Delivery, San Diego, California.
r.\f-‘V'' =■'-' H .■ ‘ On July 16, 1953# *ihe Greenwich Village newspaper riA.C*vIl'-
- "Caricature”, filed a change of address reflecting 2374
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-i .>>,. %dio Is reported to bo residlna with- her husband,
... ^ , (Fi.TJ) C-XSTOif end her two children in Pasadena, Callfomla,--.vv-;_^
xmless deemed inadvisable after a review of your indices, 7 ;? ;;.
Vj J-;.- for the purpose*. of determining the extent of her rclationf/5’-i>T.}?-Jl:;i^
ship and/er the natxiru of her contact with xmd/or -
*7-4->: =• - At San PicRo, Cnllfornla '^f:^-:^^ >
. • ■ Will locate and interview SHIRL*iY 4L.1LE
k; ' V. "- - ccncernins the extent of her relationchip and/or "the
on 7/16/53.
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j ^ continue 'to review the remaining im-V
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Identity v--‘ " •. ' Doscriptlon “of ~ Date ' ‘ “ Tc“Wh3i3 ■ 'Whore -■
of Soiirco Informr.tion Bccelvcd * i\irr.iohcd Located
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-■" re SllIRL^^y <. " -¥» R 0 Y«iX« i
*r»lO Bc*.ckgr?und info 8/10/51*. ROBIJRT ' instant rcp«
re SHUtLLY EiflmKIX -.= -.•- - . J.
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■i^^yz^::-'k'' '^‘--. ^ ■. 3y BY letter to' Bureau and 'XJ.bahy dated 7/l3/Sl*>*..i^?i'ii’;?'^^-"-
,lt %ra8* suggested that the ^.Ibany Office may desire 'to
^•.VL- interview HU and ^Url SILUIRO. D^T SHUinO^ ls Profe88orj..;*.^^.rA^^i:
^2 V '• . Cr-pbic ..rt a , Bennington C allege , ; ._; j A ,, v..;-:,
ADHTKISTR/iTIVE PAGE (COHT'D
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'• -Will locate and interview DALE KUNTZ GiXSTOD,
■>.' who Is reported to bo residing with- her husband* Dr, --
(FA^) C^XSTOK end her two children In Pasadena* California* '>>,
■ tinless deemed inadvisable after a review of your indicta*;^;v\';i
for the purpose*. of dotcrminlns the extent of her relation-^'^^’‘t>
ship and/er the nature of her contact with ^XPRED nnd/or
•-isi s;.y DIEGO i
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- C/'^ ■ ■ Will locate and interview SHIRLaf <B*.1LE :
rr " , cancemlng the extent of her relationship and/or bho ' '
nature af her contact with «X7RL‘D and/or LOUISE SiJLuHT#
.-.She most probably can be located through the 2^71*. T*
. . iituvanda Street* San Diego* California address Vhich a;
was furnished to the Old Chelsea Post Office Station
•-;■ .-on 7/16/53* ‘■.' ‘•-■"v'--- - ■■• ■ r: ■'■
‘^'t^'s;.Hl?IL^'ci'sC0~IUD‘w]3MHG FIELD ( INPOWi^TION)
*Will continue 'to review the remaining tm-/
Identified entries set out in the. report of S-. PLTaJi
f-AJCSON* dated 8/27/53# at i^lbony* as appearing in subjectVs.';
jirf,. •,*.♦- . ‘T. . -• ..- ‘ /r \ *. ► '* ' c t ^ -i,
-‘A-:-. :r - iri-Af YORK *:•<.••:: ;::^: = ;hy ;--v.-.v;:;;„,— :
instances, interview ell individuals listed in the
.. report of S*i. ii«JCSOi:, referred to ebove, who had been
identified in subject's address beck for the purpose '
of determining tho extent of their relationship in the
nature of their contact with the subj«<ct of this Invest
nature of their contact with the subj«<ct of this invest iga-’'‘:?!r.f<;i>;v ^ '
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: ; .; i cA*»>'- Will identify subscriber to OR ■7-919li.’ ' •
:‘7rj-5?-L7»i . (Subscriber’s identity has been requested* of CSNY-2 2 'V,;i -V ;
,. but has not been received.) "
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- RliE2f^*CE; Report of C.'. ROBIRT P. ROYiX/ 6/29/54» Hew York,
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65-59242
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65-15360 '-.r
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65-4088
7 Kewark Centrol File
100-34455-1167 -ix
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ALPRlw EFAl-lWIIAS SARAKT
Formerly ei^loyed at Fort >2nsouih , ““ ■ ■■■".
ADDITlOrJAL DEROGATOKT IKFOKiATIOM IK KBfuUC FILES
On Associates
r .: r. . . KATHAK SUSS^V - A CP acaoer in 1942-1943, and a aeitber of ^e
TCL at CCinc. lias had oei-iodie contact vlth TO3ErTBi3D froa 1930“1%7," . :
and he was seen In aOd&I.'BZiC's hose by DAVEJ GRiJ^CLASS, who believed
^hat SJSSl’JH may have passed inf orsation for SOSSKBSaS.
' ’ HARVEf LES SACHA - Associate of ALFHZD SARAKT, suspecte’d
iiussian espionage aient, while at Cooper Union, IflfC, and roomed with
SATUICT while both employed at Ft. Kontaouth. Admits pro-Cosuunlst
eys^thles during period of association with S/JU4T* . ■, v.. - .
-Jr-: - " SLS.ArO?. CLAig^K - fewark files rshect CLABJI-iAiris the'isubject
of an S.i~C case, KY origin. 3be is the sister of VIVIAK GLASSi'iAH, who :
./ has associated withnjrson^involved in the fl03Ki«£SSG espionage apparatus.
‘ ' rcIC files reflect ^^^BS^^^^^eferred to on page 2 of weekly EstLcat^
’ Subversive Activities dated 9/11/43, visited a boas at long Branch, ^
' : V. J. on 8/28/43 for the purpose of giving instructions to several
civilian employees of the Signal Corps Ground Signal Agency, who are
presently organising the UFha-CIO for their area. According
files, GLASoj'IAH was a resident of the above-mentioned hooe
- - visited, and attended the meeting. - • , ^ - : - ^^*** ^?^
' JUDITH CRCUiiAK — CROUi^AN, a former employee of Fort Konmouth,’
was Shop Steward of the UFi'A, and associated with known Comunlsts. -[-- ’-'T--
GROLL’tU;' and BALSAX spent the ni^t of fi/23/43 together. .
ALICE i ATZ • Keaber of the Executive Comlttee end Chalnuan of '■' 1 “
the Educational Cpnalttee of the )k>nnouth County Chapter, UPVIA. • It is
^oubtful that elie could have held such positions if she bad not been in
Sympathy with Coonunist principles. ^-*7
Esrigt LDTTAS - Wa'a the subject of an S-,-C ca8s'--^g,gb^£3^V
Instituted in the Aeuark Division in 1943 on the basis of her suspected
stembershlp in the Shore Branch of the C? from Larch to August 1943*
Hew York was designated office of orlg^ in this case by “the Bureau in
July 1944. CIC files reflect LUTT/dl was a Beaber of Local 236, UTJA.
'ccd-:^' dkstroyed;!^:^.,-^ l;;/:
Office ^/Leif^^flduifl • united st^^s government ^ -
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JBCt: ' 3VSPSCTED ESPIONAGE, NT, UONl/OUTff, NEW JEltSET^^^'^^^J^l-. \
AND rSDERAL TELECOUNUNICATXON LABORATOSIES , "
. NUTLET, NEW JESSET ^ CV^V;^\'>Xri
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The Eepartnent of the Arny haa alleged that e -.
^poaatble eapionage ring” ia operating in the electronica
field, particularly in the inatallationa in the above
The Newark and New Tork Officea have reviewed
Amy doaaiera on 677 individuala and have checked their
offioe indicea for derogatory information. The Bureau haa .
alao checked ita indicea for additional derogatory infomation
and haa aduiaed Newark ond New Tork of the reaulta, Newark,
the office of origin, ie correlating all infomation and ia
aubmitting to the Bureau ita recomnendationa aa to what^^
action ia being taken on each individual, Theae I '
recomnendationa are being reviewed at the Bureau for approval
or other action, . •. - -_
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ACTION TO BE TAEEN BT SUBSTANTIVE SUPEBri 80 St''^''' ~^^
• 4 ^ - - -r £r>^‘ ‘ “■
In Bome eaaea it will be neceaaary for the .
aubatantive euperviaor in the Eapionage, Internal Security
or Security of Government Smployeea aectiona to approve the
recommendation or take whatever action he deema neceaaary,
The action taken by the euperviaor or hie approval ehould ^ ■:■.
be noted below in the deaignated place, ■ r: “ '"'f: —
.. . • • *'■■- 7 • /•'-■■ ■•• •
There are attached one copy each of the Newark,
^New Tork and Bureau aummariea together with Newark* e jj:- '
reconmendatione. Indicate action taken and return. •
immediately to Superviebr T, L, Jonea, Soon 2710, Eapionage '
Section, with the attachment,, ': ^ i*' ' ‘ .
- RECORDED yS^
^ 65^61665
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Security Ifatter * C opened
». . "reopened ■■
• " continued
Sepionage opened ' ..v:
* reopened *
— continued
. reopened
" ' continued
So action neceeeary
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100-34455-1187
SUBJECT; .\LF.lij:D _i^.\I;^lN0NSA3 C.^UuVNT
Formerly employed at Fort Monmo uth
ADDITION j\L DSi^ATOKY INFORIi-lTION IN NB7.1RK FILE3
On Associates
NATHAN SUSS-AN - A CP icember in 1942-1943, and a .'aeirlser of the
YCL at CCNTf, h^as had oaiiodic contact with HOSENBilSJ from 1938-1947)
and he was seen in home by DAVID GR2'ANGLA33, who believed
that SJSS'iAN may have passed information for ROSSNBSRG,
HAH'/EY LZE 5ACH3 - Associate of ALFRED SARANT, suspected
Russian espionage agent, while at Cooper Union, NYC, and roomed with
O.L'iAICT while both employed at Ft. Monmouth. Admits pro-Comi.iunist
sympathies during period of association with C/uRAl'JT,
ELEANOR GLA33Mj\J< - Newark files reflect CLAJUMAIi is the subject
of an 3M-C case, NY origin, ohe is the sister of VIVIAN OLA33!4AN, who
jjas associated wiWwjerson^^wolved in the R03EL3ERG espionage apparatus,
CIC files reflect erred to on page 2 of weekly Estimat^
of oubversive Activities dated 9/11/43, visited a home at Long Sranch, I
N. J. on 8/28/43 for the purpose of giving instructions to several I
civilian employees of the oignal Corps Ground Signail Agency, who are I
presently organizing the UF-VA-CIO for their area. According to
files, CLASoiiAN was a resident, of the above-mentioned home that
visited, and attended the .meeting.
these
JUDITH GROLL^IAN - GROLLI'IAN, a former employee of Fort Monicouth,
was Jhcp Steward of the UF’.VA, and associated with known Communists.
GaOLLM'Ji and BiVLSAM spent the night of 8/23/43 together,
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ALICE ivATZ - Member of the Executive Committee and Chairman of
the Educational Committee of the Nlonmouth County Chapter, UF'/«A. It is
doubtful that she could have held such positions if she had not been in
sympathy with Communist principles.
- LUTTAN LUTTAN v.'as the subject of an 3 -C case
instituted in the Nev/ark Division in 1943 on the basis of her suspected
.membership in the Shore Branch of the C? from March to August 1743.
New York was designated office of orig^i in this case by the Bureau in
July 1944 . CIC files reflect LUTT/iN yaa a ine.n^e^ of Local 238, UF'./A,
COJ’.'KS UHSTROYED . h.^
n i.V2N0V 21 , ^ , CM -
- ViyiAK GUS;>::A1; - CLjJJSJJJ was & girl friend of JCSL BATUl, ’ airi :ha8.x^7--
been identified by DAVID CRE^'GL'uSS as a me^er of the RC32rt'EIItC apparatus A
She has been associated %dth many of the persons Involved in this rin^,’- and
■ adinitted-to“FSI*agents“ that“6he-dellvered“$2000“to- ’.:riiLiAi’*l-?2iltr in Cleveland%? 7 ^ 7 ^ ■
with instructions for his fli^t from the U«S« to !{exieo« This
supposedly cane from a Soviet agent. After P£SL refused the money, she was'
contacted by this nan, who reclaimed the nonsy. She has refused to identify
this individual. . U
• ‘ '' • SOLD!;CK GIIE£J>'BERG — CSl2Ev'BSaG foraerly employed as ah Slectrieii^/^^0."
Snglneer at FTL. An informant, of pnknown reliability, advised JULIUS . I
dOSjSKES.^ in discussing his contacts said, *700 kTiOW a nan by the nans of ;.. j.
who is a big electrical engineer at General iHectric in Kewurk.*
- Investigation disclosed no GB£SI-!B2SG at G£ In or around Itewark.
■f'r.;-:; DAVID GREENGLASS said JULIUS BOSjiKHiaC used a certain apartment
in K.T.C. for microfilming. Investigation disclosed ALFRED SAtlUiT tfas listed '
as the renter. AIFRED SAHAirf's notebook contained SCLOIDN GREEIRBSHG's name ''
and phone number. Gtt£Ei«£>SRG denied knowing SAVANT. . r.^;r Sw
GRZSljBStG was found to be taking classified documents f roi FIL' V
home. GRESKBESG stated this was connon practice with him for he used ttem
to 8ta(fy. Always returned thenu .r -.- t -a--.
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^gLLIAi t PjglL « PE3L vas an associate and acquaintance of JULIUS
RCDd'.'HZRC who was tried, convicted and executed for espionage. Ke has been'
involved with and associated with many of the persons included in the
Rosenberg espionage apparatus. TjSfL was indicted for perjuiy in connection.
with the Rosenberg case, and he is presently serving five years for per jury."^-!:
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JOEL BARR • fi.\RH was a aember cf the Soviet espionage, apparatus
in wMch IlULIUS RCSEIvBiiRC functiomd.--
I - . .V . . JULIUS AID ETHiJ. uCGE^jBaaG - Cn 10/10/50, the Federal Grand Juiy^'
Southern District of how York indicted JULIUS ROSSXBERC, ETHEL rta»LKn£c{C/:;iv^u>,s
A!:AT0U a. YAKOVLEV, >DRTOM SOBELL, and DAVID GEEF1GLA3S for coa 8 pirapy.^:||i^^ 7 ^|
to violate the wartime espionage statute, Sul^sretion A, section 32, Title'^A^I
50, U.S.C. -On 3/29/5l« SOGEll and the ROSEIv-BERCs were found guUty by
Federal Jiuy in the Southern District of E. Y. On 6/l9/53» the
were executed in accordance *d.th their aentenee.
of both JULIUS ROSEi'JBIilftG and SOBSIX, stated that he was recruited into the CP .,
by SOBiLL, EUTCHS3 ad-/ised that H032>n3EaG Infomed him that »53LL was aidl^ -f^-.
. - R0Sdl:tB23G.4a. espiona^je work. H^ITCKl^ further stated SOoaLL had atteuptsd .to
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enlist hia in espionage work by turning over inforaation to SObiLL obtained bf
KLITCHEil in the course of his esq3lo}rment with the Kavy Department, Bureau of
Ordn ance , i fashi ngton, D«C« SOBQLL was tried and convicted and sentenced to 30
years laprisonment on 3/29/51 for conspiracy to concrdV e^ionage^ ~ - — - — . —
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DATE: June 1, 1954 "H**** — !
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SDBJBCT: JOEL BARR
ESPIONAGE - B
Ur, Marvin Garrettj. Se.curity_llivi8ion, G^B, called at
9:50 A,U,j 5/31/54, and said that Colonel Perry ' S'Pffice-aaQ
anxious to know the approximate date that Joel Barr left -the
United States, He said that this information was needed
between 11:00. A,}J,, and noon. At 10:35 A,U,, I advised
Ur, Garrett by phone that Barr left the United States in
January of 1948, He said that that was sufficient for hia
purposes,
''action:
None, Tor your information.
65^59453
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JOEL BASH
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Narch l8» i9SS
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BeBuiet 2/lB/$$ regarding the diepoaition
of the case captioned "J/ilton Am Lipton, akam, Milton
Lifachtta, Electrical Engineer, Colea Sianal Laboratory,
Department of the Amy, Port Monmouth, ifew Jeraey, SGK , "
For your information, th^D^^tment of the
Amy haa adviaed that the caae of ^K^Kjkwaa cloaed
favorably by the Office of the Secretary of the Amy,-
and hia letter of clearance woe dated February 2$, 1955*
In view of the fact that thia caae haa
been adjudicated by the Department of the Amy, you are
inatruoted to aubmit your recommendations regarding the\
advisability of interviewing Lipton concerning hia
knowledge of Joel Barr*
cc • 2 • New York (8$*l5392)
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i Barr was a member of the Julius Boaenberg eapionaa^.
'network and ia now in Europe, location unknown, Lipton
a fellow employee with Barr at the ILS, Signal Corps,
Nextnrk deferred recommending an interview of Lipton until
the SGE caaswaa adjudicated,
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JOEL BARR
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ReHulot 7/16/51* regarding the disposition —
of the case captioned "Milton A. Llpton# aka*# Hilton
Llfaohlts# Electronic Engineer# Coles Signal Laboratory#
Eepartnent of the Amy# Fort l>k}naouth# Hew Jersey#
Security of Governraont Enployeea."
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* For your Infomotloi^thc Lepartmont of
tho Army haf« advised thatfl^^H^fe cose is being -
sent to the Security Scree^^^^^^R*d for processing*
You will be advised when a decision is node by the
Department of the Army* /I \/ i
00 - 2 - Newark (65-3908)
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HOTE: Barr was a member of the Rosenberg espionage
ring and Is now in Europe# location unknown. Upton
knew Barr while both were employed by the United States
Signal Corps. Newark will submit a recommendation
concerning the inteznrlew of Llpton following tho adjudlcatlon.^>(7'f
of Llpton *8 Security of Government Bnployees case* .
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This CASS ORI 6 INATHO AT WTTPF.AT1
HKiTi^No. 121-2656 ' ? • hp
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OATI WHEN 1 MRIOB FM« WHICH MADE -
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12/26/50 |iq.21 .22/50
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HARVEY N. JOHNSON, JR. * ' .
^^SAHUEl LEVINE
CMARACmf OP CASK
-Deputy Chief- . . _
Sjystems Section
Evans Sienal laboratory
LOYALTY -OF. GOVERNMENT . EMPLOYEES
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•Departoent of the Am^
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Parsonal histoi^ set out* ^^ellow empl^ees at Squier Signal
laboratory *>r>d Evans Sign^ laboratory* Fort Monmouth* Nl*
believe LEVINE loyal «\ References interviewed— no 'disloyal '' '
information* Former associate at College of City of New York
advised Eiqployee loyal* Nel^borhood investigations disclosed
no disloy^ information* Newark CP informants not acquainted
.with LEVINE. Records of other confidential informants contain
no reference to, LEVINE* HCUA files' reflect no information.'--
identif iable ' with ^ployee* No credit or identification
record located* ■ •
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BEFERENCEi
Bureau letter to Newark* 11/27/50.
-Uashington Field letter to Newark* I 2 /I 4 / 5 O.
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■' Depu^' Chief "i
^ysteiDs Section
Evans Signal leboratory
Dspartosnt of the Araiy
Be] mar, Ifew Jersey,
LOYALTY OF GOVEBHMENT EMPLOZEES
Sevark, Hew Jersey’ :;'• - V .■>'-=. '■ S'^.,
& f - ’’ .December ?6,a95Q ;'. X •■• -;. .-■••XX’-v’'---. .-'t’
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PERSOMAX HISTOIg
The foUouing backgrotind information concerning lEVINS is contained
in personnel files maintained at Fort >bnmouth. New Jersey, is reflected on -
. ; .y-. -rthe EbQ>loyee's Loyalty, Form dated January 15, 1948, cmd is set forth in a ’ ’ ^ ‘
.< ;*^;'Per8on£l, Histpxy’ Statement ;coa^^:ted by., l£VJ^.;on November, 10, 1946. • „ „ •' ;,.
^ v7.' '-vg AMni X- IRVINE- va.B bom May ^2, 19l6^.at New- fork. New Xork^and is a-. 'Jr*'/-
'''-' v^oative-bora citizen of the United States. LeIviNE's parents. JACOB and S ARAH
r; ANLEV^®, are naturalized citizens of this country. ^
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* Ihe above sources reflect that I£V1N£ has the following educational
: - backgrotinds
j! 1--;^ -;1921 -V— .7 Public School 30; Public School 65; Public 77 .. r ■
^ *7 v,.’77 School .^., Bronx, New Xork,’ graduated =? I'--,: ' ■
‘»l.^ . - 11 . 1 .
17 .'•:^929 -.^1933
^4. James M:woe Hi^ School, Bronx, New Xork,
graduated . - - /-j. ■■—
r,/ .1933 - 1938 — College of the City of New Xork, New Xork, .
4 . -' , Hew Xork; B.E.E. Degree
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!! '' ■. 1946 - 1948 — Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, - .
?.\ . . New Xork ' /'
'V.^ The aforementioned Personal History Statement indicates that lEVINE
X \ has resided at the following addresses $ '
i'. 'A 1:.--^^^ - I9I8 — 177 Brook Avenue, New Xork, New Xork .
7 . X.X .7 *^918 --11925 328 Beekman Avenue, Bronx, New Xork - 7- '
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'‘1926 - 1932 — 1130 Matcalf Avenue, Bronx, l»ew York
1932 - 1940 — 1136 Metcalf Avenue, Bronx, New York
March, 1940
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t' ' ' August, 1943 240 . Hollywood Avenue, Long Branch, Hew Jersey
August,' 1943 ,, .
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July, 1950 .■ » • Shwe Oa^ens, Avenue, Long Branch, fiev Jersey^
vV^/-..; ;ihv|sent.-^‘'*;.' j •— - ■ 98 teaehvood Avenue, West Long Branch,’ Haw JoiHs^ ,;"
' ^ I£VlIIE's eii 9 >lo 7 inent record as set forth In the personnel files"
ntlo^^d previously is as follows s
September, 1938 to Juie, 1939 — Fomerance and Breines, architects, '
..r. -. . .fii. ..; 40,. East 49th. Street, .Hew- York, Hew York • . ..-t ,- .
XiX.7 .. ..- -•- ‘* • *’ ■ • '-. .. • - • ■■ >' -• ' . -‘
^r%t-''’'-?oneV>1939, it© ; December^ teea?>loycd ; • ‘
■--'December, 1939 to lfareh,‘'*1940 — Albert A, Volk Compaq, 1819
Broadway, Hew York, Hew York
March, 1940 to present — r Signal Corps Engineering laboratories,
< Fort Monmouth, Hew Jersey -
I£VIM£ is married to MTIDRE^AI^OSHe]^ LEVIHE, \itio was bo;m_July...l6,.. . .
20 at Hew York, Hew York, and who is a nal^ive-born citizen of tMs country*
The Personal History Statement mentioned previously indicates that
riHE has held membership in the following organizations:
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
l:- » 4 ^i>j<Institute of ..fiadio Engineers- ->1^'^ J ■
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! •■■ ■ 'ADA k, STOijT, Civilian Persouinel ft*ancl^^ignal ^'^rps Engineering . '-.
leboratarieS) Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, advised tlia^VSAMJEdfliEVlNE has been
eo 9 >loyed at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey,' since March, 1940 r ^s« STOUT stated
that the Eo^iloyee was- assigned, to .the Squier_ Signal laboratpzy.fTom Marc^,
1940 to August, 1940, and that since the latter date LEVINE has .worked at
^•■-■^ Evans Signal laboratory, Belmar, l*ew‘ Jersey, The Squier ■ Signal laboratory
^'jand‘ the Evans Signal laboratory are facilities of the Signal Corps Engineer- r- V.."
: ''>ing'']^boratqries,.Fort Monmouth, '. New ,Jer6ey«'.'..Tl^8* jSTODT advised further that'*. ^ >'■
'^,the -&i^oyee' •presen'Uly. hplds^-^the ;posltion.:of Oepu^' --QhXet of - the' Systems y' ''fj- .■ ' ‘
Section, 'Radar Br^ch, Evans Signal laboratory. Mrs. STOUT stated that
v_.lEVlNE*s personnel file contained no information perteiining to his loyalty^.
•■'to the Uni'ted States. \. • . ' - ^ ■
j- ■'•?■ . 'Confidential Informant Newark T-1, a representative .of another .1:
- Government agen^ which coxulucts Intelligence investigations, advised that Vf i/V
l^^hi^' re cojnis reflect that ^ inveatlga^on of the Big>lo yee conducted in 1942
by ^a^naiUonal credit, organization disc losed that LEVINE 's foziierjeii^loj^s
4ahd other individuals acquainted' with lEVINE believed ‘lEVINE to'te 'a -loj^ 'v';^V'' C.S"
American. Hewark T-1 stated that his records contained no further Informa- ^
tion concerning the fiiqilqyee's loyalty to this coxmtry. . -
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'■' WILLIAM L. SEIBERT, Chief Engineer, Squier Signal laboratory, Fort
Monmouth, New Jersey, advised t^t he .was the Employee's immedia'te .snper^sor .-,/■
y during the period 'lEVlNB was en^loyed at the Squier Signal laboratory and ‘
..'-that he has occasional contacts with lEVINE. since LEVINE was transferred
to ;'the Evans Si^ial laboratory in '1940. ' Mr. SEIBEItT .stated fur'ther that;
he -is ^certain I£VINE was a loyal .Aiurican during the time LEVINE worked for. ,
'i^ihim i*T>d that he has 'had no cause to 'question LEVlME's loyal^ to -the - United .
.'^'States during subsequent contacts he has had with him. * ■
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ClARENCE £. RANCK, Mechanical Engineer, Watson laboratories. Depart-
meat of the Air Force, Red Bank, New Jersey, stated ‘that he was one . of - r-; J'i-u ■
/ lEVINE's 8tq)ervisor8 at the Squier Signal laboratory. Fort Monmouth, New —
; Jersey, in 1940. Mr. PANCK stated further that his contacts with LEVINE -
were' limited to a. short period of time and 'that he has had no dealings with ' v
lEVINE since 1940. Mr. RANCK advised that, to the best of his knowledge,
;• I£VIHE ,
|Hew Jerse^^advise^alS^^^^^^^^q^R^^^^wBl^^^na^iSSe^with LEVINE in
1940 he was wmhlfl to recall aiy information cttcemlng the Enplqyee's loy^'^. •
to the -United States'.''' ■ '■
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\'i; ' Of go v em n e nt of - this countxy and lAo maintained "an .optimistic attittde . ^ ; .
vi”; toyai:d all acta of the Soviet Union.". Hr. ZUCKEEMiM stated further that
K' ftm 1937 to 1938 when he and 1£VDIE were graduated from college they
no discussions concerning any matters excepting technical sxibjects.
In addition, 'lir. ZUCKERM&H advised that he had- no contact with- -
- lEVINE from 1938 to 1943 vdien he obtained his present position with the • :
•-/ Department of the Air Force* Mr* ZUCEEHMAfi adrised further that since 1945 / '7
?-; -v he has had occasional ^ contacts with the fioiloyee, such contacts consisting
f chance meetings in Long Branch, Mew Jersey, where he and the fisp^yee ^ .
res^ed.'i'>‘lh- conclttslonj. ZDCKERMAN .stated -that he had never'had cause-
•’C-f' to doubt the £htployee*s loyalty to the United States and that he possessed ""
■: no further information pertaining to lEVIKE's loyalty to this country.
Hrs* LOUISE GOIHIEX, 26 East Front Street, Red Bank, New Jersey,
stated that she no longer possessed records concerning individuals who rented
rooms in her home during 1940 and that she was unable to recall lEVINE. . .
'.A- - s . ' ■ • ' . -
jjjfi'j • ; ;r -A > JOHN DEH&S, 240 HoUyvood Avenue, long Branch, New Jersey, advised '
that . the £iig>loyee end the Eksployee's wife rented rooms in his home for ' '
approximately three years* DEMAS stated that he had a number of eon-
• ' versations with lEVlNE and that he is certain lEVlNE Is Icqral to the United ‘
, . , States.
l^s. VtllJJS V001£X, 250 Hollywood Avenue, Long Branch, New Jer^y,
stated that she was acquainted with I£\QN£ during his residence in the
immediate nei^borhood of her home. . Hrs. WOOLEY stated further that she,-.'-
'had occasional' conversations with lEVINE and lEVINE's wife Anrt .that she '
believed they- were Iqyal ^ ^is countzy.^ ’ ' • ; , _ * -
SEYMOUR SUSSMAH, 228 HoUyvood Avenue, Long Branch, New Jersey, -
advised that he resided at his present address during lEVlHB's residence at
240 Hollywood Avenue, Long Branch, New. Jersey. Hr. SUSSMAN stated that he
i>’v\vas not acquainted with LEVINE.
^7^*' . 1^3, FRANK SCARLATA, Shore Gardens, 355 Bath Avenue, Long Branch,
New Jersey, Building Superintendent, stated that she was acquainted with
i.v- I^IHE ft'om 1947 until the summer of 1950. ^s. SCaKLATA advised farther
-.'that she had never had caxise to question LEVINE 's Ipyalty to the IMted States
.f
THOMAS G. SELL, Apartment 40, Shore Gardens, 355 Bath Avenue, ' j'
"VV'Iong Branch, New Jersey, stated that he resided next door to the Employee ' '
' for approximately seven years. - ^* BELL stated that he had no social cont^tis
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ISVIHE during tibe above period bat that he had a znmber of conversatlozis.
^*i€/.':.* wi.th hiau Hr* BElIi. advised that he believes that the Employee is loyal to. li'.'
the United States.
_ ^s* IRVING GUTTMAHN, Apartment 32, Shore Gardens, 355 Bath Avenue,
•T.- long Branch, New~J^rsey, advised that she -and her husband uere_ close friends
i of the Employee and the Qaployee's wife and that she has been acquainted
with I£VIHE for approzliDately six years. Hrs* GUTTHANK stated further that^. *
• .,iV,.v- she , bel^ves ■ lEVINE is a loyal American citizen* , ’
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-<r- ^ -Hrs* ,GBAC^ larchvood Avenue, Uest Long firanch, Nev Jersey,-
• stated that she has known the Bnployee for over two aonths during ^ch period
, ISVINE hflft resided at 98 Beachvood Avenue, West Long Branch, New Jersey* l^s*
REMER advised that she believes the fh^loyee is a loyal American*
•.
'4 ' ATTILIO AGNEIUNO, 44 Lerchwood Avenue, West Long Branch, New .
Jersey, stated that he has luioun the Employee for over one year and that he
has .had a number of contacts with LEVINE during that period* Hr* AGNEILINO..
e vplwi not A that he Is a member of a contracting firm tdiich erected I£VIN£*8
'present res^nce and that be .had a number of conversations with LEVINE
during the alxrve period* Mr*' AGNEIUNO advised further that he believes - y
' lEVIHE is loyal to this country. - -
Confidential Informants Newark T-2, Newark T-3, and Newark T-4,
of known reliability ^o are acquainted with many members of the Communist
'^Pax^. of Hew Jersey, advised they are not acquainted with the Eoployee* .
/^The records of Confidential Informants Newark T-5 and Newark T-6,''' •
^^^^'..“Other- Government, agencies which conduct Intelligence investigations, have : j
checked'ahd found to contain no record of the Kcployee*
3^.;; ^ ' Ihe files of the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States
v^V-f-. -Bouse .of .Bspresentatives, Washington, D* C«, have been reviewed and no infer-
< 7 ^. matlon Iden^fiable with lEVIHE was . noted* . . > . ' . .
records of the Merchants Credit Bureau, Inc*, 715 Mattlsbn ■
• Sr ’ Avenue, Asbvny Park, New Jersey, contained no information pertaining to
T;,' lEVlNB's Ipyalty to the United States.
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. . . . . Ihe files of the following New Jersey Police Departments contained
. no identification record concerning LEVINE: Belmor, long Branch, Red Bank, .
' and West Long Branch* V
, Ths frplcyr.c's riuHio '.i'3S chcc'isd
',a 5 £in:t t:.v jccc:(Js o^H^.e Idcnlilxaticn
'Division of Ihe FedersI BufCiiu of fnvesti-
. gation and nncriniinal record was fo»J'»d.
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rnCT-mi^IAT/ IKFORMAHTS -
AMDREW J. BEID, Civilian Intelligence
Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, who was coveted
ty Sk HARVEY' N.'JOHNSOSi JR* on December 12, _
1950.
yjjo was contacted. December 21, 1950... M
Newark T-3
who was contacted December 21, 1950
hy Sh FRANK M. RAISBECK. - -rr: . -. .if*;
Newark T>4
who
4^^ i-- r * . Tu^tiAfsrk. D^T^arto^llt of tllB
: •■• - ■ Hewark T-6 •>^..' -
Intiiiigence Division, Departaient of the
Amy, Wa^ngton, D. C. ‘ , _ ^
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j^eltcrai Surratt of fiturattsnttoii
% 1 nttrii StatcB 9 ruartuirut of lluatirr
S&MDEL LEVIHE
Deputy Otlef ...
Sjstems . Action , . j..
y . Evans 'Signal Laboratozy ■ ;'
: . Oepartibent of the Axwy . \
Bfllnwr^ New Jersey
LOYALTI OF G0V31NMENT EMPLOYEES
Is am«ndri] eo3v cf i
/.ould
copies
af this cop,. ..
fiepOTt Of: Special Agent HARVEY H. JOHNSON, JR.‘ '
^ted: ' V, . December 26, 1950 at . ... a-. ■
' V • . - r Jersey, . t -^V'
PROPERTY OF FBI
^Is confidential report and its - 7
contents are loaned xo you ty 'ttis f'
FBI and are not to be distributed -
outside of the agency to idiieh loaned.
Ctls is an FBI investigative re p ort
and makes no re commendation f or ^ -
clearance or disapproval. ' f. >;
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flAHtlltT. I£Viim
DeptrtT’ Chief
978teu Section
Svene Signal Icboratozy
Separtanent of the Army
Balnar* Hew J’erse 7 _ _ ^
UJIAUSI OF GOTERfiMaiT EMPLOZEES'
jbwapk,'.lfaw Jeraey ■" ‘ ;>'V } -
FESSOiAL histob;
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Cie foUovlng background Informtlon concerning lEVIHS Is contained
In pereonittl files aalntalned at Fort Ifonmouth, Bev Jeraey, ..Is reflected on - ;.
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"'V- V' the Etafileyee^a loyalty Fore dated Jannazy 15> i948> and Is set forth In a : ' >:r ' "
, V'v'^ Fbrson^ Blatory. Statenent eomlated ly UVJJifi on Boresiber 10, .1948* ^U.•.^^vC V
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i yhvH \^-‘' .SAMEL Uivjjus was born May 2, 1916 at lew Fork, Hew lark, and.ls-a •%> ;.. *'•-
I am ▲ Tmi I uu I a. _ Yas^i^n n Mav^at*
natlTe-born cltlsen of the Halted sWtas* IHVIHE's parents, JACOB and sahab
^ -EB7IBE, are natorallaed ^tlsens of this conntxy.-
v<::
‘ the above soorees reflect that Usvjjib has the following educational
backgrounds ■ . ,
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^1921 - 1929, / .r-, PubUc'School 30| PobUc School 65| Pnblio j v .1 ^ .
.School 77* Bronx, Hew Fork, graduated
•rj'Ti*'! • v:V- "-1921 - 1929 — • nmiic'S
^ -rcv.; .school - 5
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- 1929 --1933 Jams Monroe Sl^ Sohool, &onx. Saw Tork,
graduated
. . 1933 - 193 s . College of the City of Hew Fork, Hew Fork,
. * - . . -.•' ' . Hew Fork, B.H.E. Degree
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' " has resided at the foUoviiig addresses i
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19 ^ - 1948 Folytedmle Inatltute of Brooklyn, firool^yn,^
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The aforementioned Fereonal Hlatozy Statement Indicates that LBVIIE
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1916 > 1918 177 Brook Avenue, Hew Fork, lew Fork
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^r^l9W -4925 ,..."7 . ,3J^.BBelanan Aveznie, Bronx, Bew Fork
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;.;C>,-j‘]&;)Of jgoywBiitBt Of, this. cotCBtiy gad. %hb awintaiiwd *an optlnieti^
tOKttxd all sets, of Jtha Soviet •Vnioii^*'j-J^. SUCTEHHAI stated itethw that
trca 1937 to' 1938 idieo he and IhViOK vere graduated from college they bad
so dlseossiosB eoneexsisg any matters excepting tedbnleal subjects*
Xn~addltlos> 'Kr* ZUCK&BIttl.advleed ^at he had so contact with
IhVlhd ttom. 1938 to 1945 vhen he obtained his present position' with the- - --
/ /. Bopartment. oX t^ Force* .- ht« ZUCEERKAfi advised fm*ther that since 1945
- •^u-.yl'.he hM . had Ibeoaaional contacts with the Ssaployee^ such contacts consisting
hhance' notings' is* Bninehf BevJersey^ lAsre he and the fispli^ree'::-
xtyided^^^l^Ia, canelttfilona . fStm gTCraaft¥ stated, irnyr^r
■ doubt the lB|joyee'*8 lbyalV. to the jaite d- States and that'he j^sseSs^
~ so .further InfoziBation pertaining to ISVIlS's loyalty to this country. ; - ' -
Itre* lOOISE G0EMI£Z, 26 East Front Street, Bed Bank, Bey Jersey,
V . stated that ^e no longer possessed records coneeming individua ls ^dio rented
.vi:-.;., •jreons In her hone duri^ 194P and that she. see unable to recall Itnraitfi* ’*4/-.
. lew Jersey;:’ advised
■hie hdi»-for.:^^i‘’=.-S|uVi:yT.r^^^
sr\vr
& SQcibsr of •' ‘
vwsations idth lETJZB and that he is certain lEVZHE is Ic^al to the IbiWd
States* - -v :.;, ‘
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' 14s* UXUJS HOOIEI, 250 Hel lyvoo d Avenue, long Branch, lev Jers^,
stated that she uas acquainted with XS7IHE during his residence in the
.A^fvi''';iBaediate:BeighbOTbood of her hone* .Mrs* VOOIEZ stated further that ahe /A: v.
.',^^?t!^had occasional eonversatloi^ wlth .IEVIHE and lSYin'a,wife and tlwt 'ahe'/.'i^l^r^^fi^^^^^
1^"* • 240 Bbliyvood Avenue, l ^g Branch, lew Jersey* 14* SDSSIftH stated that he .
was not acquainted with IE?1BB. .. V . ' - - . 5?
. -vr < •
148* FRAIK SCARLAIA, Shore Gardens, 355 Bath Avenue, long Brandi,
Bev< Jersey, B>illding Siq^erlntendant, stated that ahs was acquainted with
■ IE71BB from 1947 until the auaner of 1950* Mrs* SCAfilATA advised further.'
I **'^'^-5.;'. that aha h«»d never bort eanse to queation laV ins's loyal'ty to the -Ihited 8tatea«
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fHONAB 0* BIX, ApartsBsnt 40, Shore Gardens, 355 Bath Avenue,
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long firanoh^ Bev Jersey^ stated that he resided next door to the £aiplo 7 M
".'X-
"" JTOr approxl^ eeran /eara# Kts BELL. stated thet he had so social eontacta
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dnriBf /tha above period .bat that be h^ a Bomber of c ou T erga tiona <^?:r^;.
tto ;^iiiteid' States
with bill* advised that he 'believes, that the Staq^lsTee, is JUigral 'to
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lbs* IRVJJKi GSimunf, Aparbnent 32^ Shore Gardena, 355 Beth Ivexme,
’i.-‘ - -Icng-firaneh,. |fov Jersey , advised that she and her hoaband were close fjrlends
\. of the Enployee and the &q;)lo7ee*s uife and -that-s^ has -been acquainted. .
v for a pproadaately six years* ft’s* OOTIM&HII stated farther that ■
she .'believes' lEVIfiS is a loyal Inerican citiaen. • , .'.iV
i Mrs* 9^iCE fiEMffi, laz^weed Avexme, Vest Long Brandi, Hew Jersey'^ ;
:f^^,<^:'etated that has' iDoia' the for ever two Bonths during which '^riM
Vv isivuiB has resided at 9H Beachvood Avenus, Ifest Long Branch, Hw Jersey* Mrs*
BKMKR advised that she believes the Bhployee is a loyal American*
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ATTILIO AflHRILIHO, 44 lerchvood Avenoe, Vest Long Branch, Bev
Jersey, stated that, he has known the Koployee for ever , one year and that he
;^V^ha8 had a ; mad>er , of contacts , with Ij^ihs during that period* Ifr* A ftHKIiL THO
esqplained that he ds .a ineaber of a oontraeting firm diidi erected I£?lHB's.
present resid e nce and that he.had.a noaber of. conversations .]^th.I£7UQ
during the above period.
^ — — o < Mr* AGHBIUHO advised further that he believes
? IBVIHB is loyal to this country* \ .
V - .
- Confidential Infonnante Bevark To2, Hevark T»3« and Hevark T*^,' .
of known reliabUity vho are acquainted with many members of the Communist
of Hew Jers^, advised .th^.are not acquainted with the Enqiloyee* ~
3 ieeorda of Confidential Informants Hewark T-5 end Kewark T-6,='^ ^
VjfVA
other ;Oovemment. agencies .whieh .eozduct intelUgenoe investigations, heye
^'Wii/ 3 '>x^^^ dbe^Bed and. found to contain no reeo^ of the ^^ployee.
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the files of the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States
\^rV' .Bouse of fiepresentatives, Vaahl ngton, B* C*, have been reviewed and no inforv
S’^*' . aatlon identifiable with IhVlHK was noted* * ■ . . . -• J..
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Ihe records of the Herdiaats Credit Bureau, Zne*, 715 Ifattieon
Avenoe , Asbuxy Park, fiew Jersey, contained no information pertaiidng te_-
lEVXBB's loyally to the United States* . ■
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She files of the following Hew Jersey Police Departments contain^
' ^- Bo identification record concerning ZSVIREi Belnar, long Branch, Bed Bank, ,
j.;v
; and Vest Long Branch*
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■ • Ths etnployee’s n5.ne was checked
enainci ilic reesrds ot Use Identlficaticn
Division o' the feifere! Bureau oJ Invssfi-
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WASHIMGTON H AND NEW YORK 3 FROM NEWARK 7-29-50
DIRECTOK Af® SACS NEW YORK AND ALBANY
URGENT
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ALFRED SARANT, ESP- R. RE ALBANY TELETYPE DATED JULY^^JW^]
QUOTED AS FOLLOWS. ALFRED SARANT, ESP- R. DURING COURSE if AfitZMlZV
^ 1 .
_ . E'^OUfiHTi\ ;/
AW E^^.ARGER FOR TWENTYFIVE DpLLARS FROM ONE JACJ^OS]
IDENTIFIES ROGEMUAUM AS A FKIZr® OF ONE- ALI^^KATZ, WHO WORKED. AT ARMY -
SIGNAL CORPS, FORT MONMOUTH, N. J., DURING NINETEEN FORTY ONE AND FORTY-
WITH SUBJECT REGARDING PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT, HE ^ATED HE'^OUGHtj j ^ j
HE SAYS HE DATED KATZ DURING .THIS
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TWO, WHEN HE WAS EMPLOYED THERE<
PERIOD. NEWARK REQUESTED TO IDENTIFY KATZ AND INTERVIEW HER REGARDING
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SARANT AND ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY AND LOCATE ROSENBAUM TO DETERMINE DETAILS .
PAGE TWO
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Re Indices leear oh tellp dated II/17/53 -
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140-176-13-11 Newark report^dated 11/7/53 by SA JAliES H, LAUGIILIH,
entitled, "EDWARD JOHN PISTER"- Security of Oovernnient Einployeesj
Which i^eflect the following' information: Nr. RALPH Li DUMNj Chief
of the Radar Mechanisms Ujiit,'Raaar Equipment Section, stated that
lir. PISTER, -in hljs ppstilon as^, Assistant Chief of the Rader. Erencdi,
i:
would have had to approve promotions for fLJiOLD DUCOREj 6A1>1USL'
LEVINE end ALLEN LOVENSTEIN. ^'f P5r . 'DUNN r«
related that he ooneldars -
DUCORB and ALLEN LOVENSTEINv-tOi^be of queatloi^ible loyalty due to
the fact that he Is aware that' they both have recently been sus-
pended as security rlsks.at- Evans -Signal Laboratory i DUNN bdviB^ .
that LEVINE'S loyalty is questionable to him mainly because he.lB . .
aVtere of the fact that' LEVINE ; is under Investlgntlon; DUNN was ,
Interviewed by SA lAUGHLINr on" 10/20/53. (it should be noted that
date Was not reflected In report but was verbally verified
16/20/53 by SA LAUGHLIN)
66-4108-123 Newark report dated December 4, 195® by SA GSRH/RD Pi
HUNDT, entitled, "KORTON SOBELL, Was." Espionage - R; Internal
Security Act of 1950;' Whlch Csets out the follovring ihforniatlbni T 1
\ . . r ‘ (pages' 8 /9 LEVIlffi, Deputy Ohiefj Systems.
Sedtibh, / Evans Signal ■/Laboratory » ‘Port i’ionrrtoutH * ' H * J| t?ti e vliitOTi^'
vlevjed on November 9» i950j-by4‘^eclol Agents ' REGINALD C.i VlHCEfJT ' *■■
and JOHN II. LYONS. LEVINE ;stated that he presently tesldeb at
98 Leschwood Avenue, Uest-^ng Branch, N.J * He stated he
acquainted with 'S0BELL-*as a -fellow student at CClJY from 1934 -to
June, 1938. He oonsidered^SOBELL one of the most Inteillgeht.-.l- //
students who was extremely -interested in technical studies aii^
very argumentative to the point Where felioV.- students ociled him ~
a "screwball*, according to LEVINE, The latter Geld that this
was due to some of SOBELL' S eccentric behavior on for exrinple, /
when SOBEIjL vfould disagree with rm instructor in sOhbol he Would
. Jun^. up and angrily shout his objections to rsomething told by
"the Instructor instead of putting up a logical argument to. .jjefUtb"
cny ptatenents by the instructor which SOBELL might have bon- ‘
feidered brroneous,; ( oontlnuedj on page 2) ■ ■
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SAI.TIEL tEVIiJE
98 Bekohvbbd Ave,
West Bong Brench,
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that SOBELL could he'' classified as a liberal or a radlcol i^d
explained that he believed ♦ai^llberal to be one who woUld suppbrt
the net-; deal program of the Roosevelt administration and a radioal
to be one who would ^syn 5 )o.thlze. vii til and support the Oonimunist .
movement i ’ '-'i;:. y<'-
LEVINE further advised that he" accidently toet SOBELL in JUnCi 19^2
When LEVINE end his wife were ^returning from Washington j Dj, c;
after their honeymoon,- ^i^BELL' mentioned at that time that he Had
breViouely worked at • the Navy' Department in Washington} D. Cj
with some, other former CCNY clascmatee of SOBELL and LEVIIJE;
SOBELL also indicated -to LEVINE at that time that he had either
just completed or was about to . start graduate studies at the
University of Michigan. •
liEVB'IE advised he later 'aaw SOBELL at the Evans Signal LDtoratoryi
Fort Monmputhi N.J., -when 'SOBELL was present there with bthei? I * .
Reeves In8trumentCon^>anyf.per8onnel for discussloh with Signal
Ooi’ps engineers regardingipontraots betiieen the two, . , .
i ^ . . . .
LEVINE stated that he 'last -Eay( -SOBELL during several Visits Ke
made iio the Reeves Instrument^l^ompany in New lorit on Si^ai .Tyl- .
Corps business but had no 'contact v/lth him other then casual ,
greetings. LEVINE added that -he .was never approached by SOBELL
or anyone else to Xurnish imauthorized information of any kind:
(pages 25i26) , AARON -COLEI-iAN, ■iiChlef, Radar , Co-ordination Septibh,
-Radar Branch* EvaxiB:SignaiyI<aboratpry, _Fprt Monmouth* N/_Ju. ;Was . .
interviewed on November 2, ??1950 by Special Agents LOUIS 0,” .TURWra
and REQIlLdiD C. VINCENT at 'hlB -residence 42 Branchport Avenue/
Long Branch, New Jersey.-; CQLEMAi'l stated that SOBELL never had. .. «•
bccess t6 classified informti'on through him, ulthoti^i he could
have sberi other c^ssified^^reports. of the Signal Corps liliicH Wara
sent to the Reevea Con^iany^vmder guard. He necalled that 6t thb -
tinie Of SOBELL' B arrest he;- COLEriAW, reported to the Security - ‘
Officer at Fort Monmouth, “Npm'Jersey* the possibility that. Signal
Corps data taay have been con^romieed by SOBELL' s presenbe at.'-",
the Kceires Oon^any. COLEI^j^ ‘.inentioned that following SOBEIjL' b '
arrest; SAMUEL LEVINE told- OOLEl-iAl^ that hhe manag-iment at Hoeves
was. aware that SOBELL was' a ‘Communist* COLEMAN believed ..;toat
LEV^IE's source for this information vias HARRY BELOClt, ifhb Vreia ;
apjjorehtly aware of SOBELL* e. .leanings * COLEi-LAN recalled thb r. .
ndmSs of SAIIUEL LEVINE & SAIioPOHERANTZ, both 6f Evans Slghal •' -V'
- Laboratory, and other names, who W-ere piassniates of SOBELLi . ? _ '
feohtiihUod on nage 5)
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CAIIUEL LEVINE
98 BeechvJood. Aye. 7"
West Long Brbnoh, ‘W.'J.*
65^557* ■ '
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November 9i
Statement to
identified theme el vos‘-'to‘-me;^s1iSpeci61 Agents Of the Feder6i*
Bureau of Invostlgation.^^-"No|threatB or promises hove been made
to me for this statement and'-^^know it can be used in a court of
lcM,_ ^ Naye been advised liiat^I do not have to make any state-
ment and that I am “entitled' to’r benefit of coujiBel-i- -
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I attended the College ^ of fthe^vClty of Nev; York, from 1933 to
June of 1938 ♦. ^ graduated'^atV^that time vjlth the degree of Bach-
elor of Electrical Bngineer^ing. In my clans at college vjas
JiOHTOh BOBELL Who ijhecaine\acqualnted With, Since graduatiiig f
college I met MORTON iSOBELE*'on^a fevi occasions i Once on a trip
from Washington B, C» ih June"1942, on another occaslon when-I -:'T
happened to meet him when he 'visited Evans Signal Laboratory* I
also sav/ him on a <^uple of-, occasions when I visited the Reeves
Instrument . Company, New York City . I did not visit him on bus-
iness but just happened tp'seedilm and talked with him as he ^
Was In the same room ..with ?PjEH^, 'SEAY who I was vistln^ oh Signal ; .
Corps business. ,
Sliice SOBELL was apprehend^ sav/ HARRY BelloCK, Mh offibifti^f
Reeves Instrument Company," ""along with HERMAN ST/iNEfTi ' BBLLOCIC'"
told us that after they’ had^ hired SOBELL they learned that hb:waS
a Communist or was suspected of being 0 Communist. He also said
that hd knevj SOBELL was under surveillance by some security cs®hDy*
BELLOCiL stated that it- would be!, better to Iceep SOBELL working in
the organization where he' could' be watched than to fire himi’
BELLOCK said he had told thl 0 ,\to the security agency and it was . .
my impression from* the oonverfiliitlon that .the security. Agency a^edd
v/ith this procedure J^"^;BELL 0 CK^aLl 6 o stated that he eoUld /not !im^ V,*-
aglne SOBELL being a' spy ^ ih’^view of the diligence lie pursued in
his viork at Reeves' Instrument^r-Po.
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1 have read the above!' stateiaeait -'Onnsls ting of tv/o pages dated r ,:' . '
November 9 1 3950 ond state^t^t.vto thd best of my recoliectioh,'/'
the information Is.! true, ^ . .s.. .
V.‘ 7 ; ’ V;-*;-rS!./s/ SyU'iUEL LEVIllE r
Witness i ‘ r' !,' ■ . '■
JOHN R; LYONS, Special Agent. .5BI 11/9/50 ■
REGINi-lLD Ci VINCENT, Spedlal . Agent, FBI , 4 ;... -r - ^
(Orlglnhl signed statement will be found In ‘65“4io&-lA-8) : .
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In eddition to the above sl^ed statement j LEVIHE also edvlsed
thatThe was acquainted with JULIUS ROSENBERG as anotiier member 7 V' -
of his CCUY class, but that’ his ocoualntanceshlp did not extend
beyond that. He described ROSENBERG as being openly Commuiilfetlc .
and admitting frequently his assoc let Ion with -the Comraunlct tobVe- .
trient . He Bald that ROiSENBERO whs continuously attenpti^ to
interest otlier students In the prlhclpleE end aotiyltles^df tcrloUS
Communist movements on the campus and tliat he, himself, had been
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. aiHUEL LEVItffi \ " ^ ' ;
99 J^cechwbod Ave. * “ ■. v
V^est Long Branch," N.J.
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■6s«4i08»123 (page 31) approaclied by ROSEl-lBERO. He did hot;
re(»ll specifically ,.1^e ^ture'i' of the approach but vaguely
recalled tliat It wasr^along^iihe^llnee of pointing oUt the behe~
fits of Coranmhlsm. . '
LEVINE also advised ‘ that R0SE1©ER0 was seen paaelng oiit liter- :
'ature^and wns precent-at-varloue-demonGtrfvtlonB- held at - Olty. . 1 '
College, Nev; Xorl: In t ose. times. LLVDlE denied that he had .
ever participated In'any Communist or related activity or thht
RoSEliBERG had ever' succeededvin recruiting him to that cause;
With Reference to, H ARR Y BEIJ OCk,' Whom LEVINE mentioned ih.hife^ ,
signed statement,' LEVINS' advlB^ that he understood that BELLOCKj'.
ill tliB past two or -three. days, l=hed resigned as an offlclal bf^./ V-
the Reeves Company.
35) WILLIM"^ PATRICK 'LOI^N IE, Electrical Engineer, Applied
Physics Branch, Evans Signal Laboratory, who resides at ^6 Brower
. ii jr Boulevard i Wanamassa/' NewJOTsey,' aditlsed Special Agents RECHHALD “
0; VINCENT & JOHN R. ^YONS.;thht he graduated from CONY v^ith h • . :
degree In electrlcal'^englneering In February, 1939; LONNIE
pointed out that there wast:a?great deal of political activity
ot CCJNY during the late " *30 s' such as passing out pamphlets but *
thet he could not Identify .SQBELL or ROSENBERG with this actlvitys
lie suggested that SAM LEVINE, *MCRRY DISTEL & JEHCiOS. FRELOllAN .
miglit also recall SOBELL,
(page 57#58) Captain WE^ilAW PETERSON, Assistnut Chief, Security
and Intelligence Off icei' Slgja^^'Corps Engi ne ering Laboratorlesi
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Port" Hohmouth, . N.Jv '^‘A^jevlew^of r- Captain PETERSON'S files by
Sa REC}IHALr) Ci VINCENT ^Bfiect^ a letter dated $/lf/5b td
Reeves Ihstrument 'Corporation, ‘'^Attention of hr. PEHHi SEAY,, .
, 1 . j stating tliat the Signal Corp',! authorized rn extended blearance . „
.for a period of six months ^om the above date for intermlttfent
vlsita to Reeves to contact 'HARRY BELOCK,' JOSEPH ^iIlEINHAJ^, ‘
3=ERRY SEAY*. 8AHUEL LEVINE andiothers received clearancd re^ardi^
ing contract W 36-O39-SC 33716^(414 a) . The letter Indlcatba ,
that these individuals have been cleared for access to Ijlfbrinatidji
blasaifled Up to and' Inoludlng’jSeoret.
. By letter dated 3/14/50 the GENERAL ELECiR 10 COMP/UIY. SyrncUaei
V :iew York, was davlsed AARON CQLEi'lAS, L0U1.> VOLP and SiM-IUEL LEVINE-
werd-'bUthorlzed to visit thatiplant 3/22/50 to contact . i-tr . VAN
AUKEN regarding project 414 /A.j'^-'( Date Information received ift -, -
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98 ber.chvjood Ave. •
liest Lone .Branch, .N»J
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•IQQ-344 ^ *)~12-1Q Newark report dated 1/27/53 1 period Wiieri made-; ','
12/10*29/52; 1/9, 13, 21/53, HARVEY IJ. JOHNSON* JR. j entltledj; •
“Communist Inf iltratlon’ of-^Hort HoMouth, N.J.® lS-0; ,ti^6h rO-v '
fleets the following Inf oimiatlon: (Newerk confident lai inforinwt*
ANDREW J. REID, Chief Invest^ator, 0-2* Port Monmoiithi NiJ.*
(name should be protected by ta' symbol number) contacted by SA -
JOHNSON on” dotes reflected 'In' period- of this report. -REID_.ctated_
that ot the present several individuals ore designated “Claes 'A' .
Restrlctees** at Port-tMonmouth* "N.J. and in the event of national
emergency they would'j be- removed; from the installation because
their presence ivould constitute a security risk. One of the
indlv.lduAls listed .lB.{S^IUEL"f^^VINE, PPI, Radio En^ineSr * EvahS
Signal Lahore toryt ' ‘ . -
4/20/51! Recommended retention in Govern).jent employment * i- - !
8/31/51 ! Suspension or removal from Government employment not -
recommended .by> Dep^tment of the Arm^J
inO-32i33-4-8Q WaBhln^on;-;D.^,C. report dated 2/23/48 by GEORGE
E* DAVIS entitled, -“Pederatlon.of Ajuerlcan Scientists" IS-C^jh^H •
reflect the following ’information:; Confidential Informent^B^lP
has furnished names of.^- PAS' members and organizations* (no date In—
dicated vdien Inf ormant; furnished list) On the list of Pedel*atl6il
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bf American Scientists, . HoMOuth County, Nev/ Jersey the nhme bf “' •.
Hr, SAMUEL LEVINE, Bath. Ave .-,'^Mlong Branch, N.J: (Shore Oerd^.Aptii)
appears. ■ v.v- • - V
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IQQ-31628-1-2 Nemo to SAC*vHew8rk from SA JEWEL ALBERT FOPS, dated
October 15 , 1946, .entltled,'9^A^ON H. COLEiiAN" IS-R; which reflects
the follovfing information t'.^'^.A^^REW REID, Intelligence Officer^
Port I^bhihouth* -N.J... ';'ad'y:laed^i^':PCffi^^^^oilowl2^ IriforDiatlon:./-. -T
As a result of an-interview^wflth (HBjHB by Army autliofitles tie’ . j
listed his friends, and the 'name of £>Ait j.rEVINE, livciis LDboratory*;V^ '
Belmar was among those llstedv^ (J^'o dates Indicated for the infor-i""'
mntlon furnished above
100-31626-165 Newark report dated December 14, 1950 by SA REOlNAIil^
C. VINCENT entitled, .-■•“AARON .HYihlAN COLEIAN" Espionage i^.R* -Iritdrnhi •
Security Act of 1950;' reflects^ -the following Inforraatlbnt
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(page 36) Physical Burvelllnnce conducted on .COLEiiAil
from September. 16, 1950 throu^ November 3, 1950 by several agents '
bf the Newark office: -' .On 9/18/50 at 6:54 pm, It v;as not^.- that an -
ibil^vfh nan driving a 1950 -Pontiac, New Jersey 1950 Libense.
picked, Up COLEMAN at his home-and proceeded to ESL* A check of ;
thlET license with the New Jersey State Motor Vehicle BUreoU reflects
.that It Is registered to SAMUEL LEVINE, 98 Beaolwood Street* Heat
Long Branch* Nevi Jersey *. (from 9/18/50 to 9/24/50 the survelllailbe
Ua 8 covered, by BA'S PHILIP Ji CARROLL* DELTON 0, GOfiRKE, PAUL Hi
BARESEL* & JiiMES 0. PANDER) (Logs bf this Burveilliihce “IndicSting.
specific times each ogent wafe bn sur^^elllanoe ere being maiatslned
In the 1-B section of IOO-31628) ...
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SAJiUEL LEVIi4B ' '
98 Beochv/ood Ave; ' ..
WeBt.I^ong Bi'aiich, N-J ..
65-:^557* : ■
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iQ0-1l628-l6q { continued from’ page 5) (pcge 42) Teletype K
dated October 14/ 195Q.I ‘‘the tWashlngton Field Office adviced th&t
'Coleman anconq^anled, by E .-'V^y^KCSTER nriil S. LEVIME eperit the afey
6f October l4 in conference/rat^*the Pentagon Building, They db-i
parted for Newark at 5, p.mw-'bn the Pennsylvania Train, *The
Bmbasey"*. .
i ^*i-4lQ0-7‘>~3*i New York report dated 5/18/53 by iLAbTlICE Vi* CQRGCJflAII
entitled, “WILLIAI'i PERL, wa,;“’- Espionage - Rj Perjury - which re-
flects the following , Inf ormatlonJ On April 29, 1953 SAMUEL LEVIllEj
98 Beechv.’Ood Avenue, West ;I*ong. Branch i New Jersey, vras intervlevred
concerning WILLIAH , (■ '
LEVINE adviced he attended CCNY, 1934-1938, and that the XCL existed
on tlie campus, The only person he specifically recalled bs being
a member of the YCL was JULIUS ROSEHEKRG, He was unable to recall
any specific gathering. However, he did recall informal gather-
ings held In classrooms where\the subject of Comnamisni was dis;-
I cussed. He did have .a definite recollection that ROSENBERG .p. '
Epeclfloally tried,', to "recruit: -people Into the YCL, «
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IlEVINE identified" a photbgraphv of WILLIAM PERL as a Class.mate at
'CG'IY, He has. no ' 'recoil Qctionc of any meeting v;ith PERL efter'^'~"^'
^aduation* . - ii-
LEVIilE also recalled''-ineetlng .HOidf ON SOBELL at the Signal Corps ,
Laboratories, Port Nonmouth, -^J^New Jersey. SOBELL at that tine -Was
visiting other* people at the’-laboratory,- pose lb ly AARON COLEI-uUU
■ LEVINE . Bald he had the -"impression that PERL, while at CCNY, laiew
. SOBELL and ELITCHER .and" may^ have knovm JOEL BARR i. He chid that
’lie never saw JULIUS ROSENBERG 'at the Slidihl Corps Laboratories^ V
however he had seen JOEL BARH,^d ALMRI® SARAl.’T tliere.
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LEVINE said he was never a'-menrt>er of the YCL and had riever joined
that bbgahization.* v>CintervJ.owing agent is not reflected) ' - V '
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-.760-34^21 Newark r epbrtidated 12/17/52 by a A F; ,wARF0Hi)
eiititled, "AiiRON HYMAN '■C0LE^1AN S' J^E .i. Which reflects the following
informatiorii SAliUEL/LE VINE, ^Acting C}iief , Sydtems Section; Radar
Branch, ESL, Belmar, .NiJ.’j'-^pse home address ic 98 BeeChwood Avei,
Viest Long Branch, N.J,, -was ‘interviewed on 12/5/52 by SA EARL F,
WARFORp. LEVINE advised that he attended CCN Y Euid groduoted ih^V-
Jiide’, •• 1938 , with a Bachelor' of '-Blectrical Engineering DegreO"'. _
lie titatdd feiict COLEMAN vias a fellovi electrical engineering btudfent
in -^e flame class .and that he oamo to knov/ COLEI AN fairly well vflt'
? Oolie^i Although they did not associate other than as fellbW _■
students: He stated -that MORTON SOBEJjL and JULIUS ROSENBERG, the
bbrivloted eepldhage agaiits, wei'e elbo fellov; students of hit dnd .
' COLEHAJij blit that th'^he best of hlB khoviledge, GOLEliAN had hp‘? '
other relationship with ttifln other than as fellow etUdeilts aid did
hot know them outside of flohool. (continued on peg® J)
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sAi-iUEL Levine J; '>• : ' ' ‘ ‘ .
98 Beechwood Avei !: • ' ’ ...!,!
Went Bqx^ B ranch, N.J. ' .• ^§ ;'. ■ * >■ -•,
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121^76<?-34-23 (cont^ued from 'page 6) LEVIIIE Bt«'?ted that einc^ •
SOB ELL and ROSEl'IBERGg;,were .o.onT^cted of espionage, jie 6nd COLEI lAN .j.
have discuBBed them ,- - and ' ini fthelr i ConVer sa t Ions , COLEMAN has •/
indicated that he rememberedTtheni as fellow etudentc at CCinc
but did not have any- otheiv.relationship vrlth them. He stated that..
COL^iAJs^ Jpd also remarked that -since college, he had seen SOBELL
once orb 'tv.'lcs bn' Signal -Corps:.,buelnefiB- while- SOBELL was Working
for the Oeneral Electric* Corp. , at Schenectady, NiY*^ and the
Reeves Ins trument^^Corj). , -New,! York , City, N.Y., which both had Signal
Corps Contracts, ^ , . .
Levine etated that^from’‘'19,^6'^iihrough 19^ » he and COLEMAII atteitied
elapses together at lilght in’ the Polyteclmio Institute, Brooklyn,
HiYi, and that they .^de backV^and forth to- classes together ..jn the -
feame cari . .. -.v^T ' ’■
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LEVIIIE further stated that.he”has been acoualntod with CCLEIiAl!
BP a fellow employee*^ since l-larch, 19^0. LKVIilE stated that he
first Worked VJith COLEIiAN In^the same section at Port Haiicbckj ;/
N:J.i on Signal Corps ’bus ihes^s.',' then at Camp Evans Signei Laboratory
Beimari UiitilVl9^E,>whehvpCLEllAl'I went into the Ihrihe Corps i .
He stated that during’ ^thlsvperiod, they did not Work dlr'ectiyi
together, but had.' frequent , contact on technical problems bii VihicH
they both worked. ‘rT He stated'^bhat. from I 9 E 6 to 1950, they wfeb'e* .
ncsociPted ct ESL in the same'^manner exdept that tliey v?ere much
closer due to their' outside- association at Brooklyn Polytechnic
Institute. LEVINE stated that, ^ from 1950 to February, 1952* he
\iorked directly under COLEMM’^on a day-to-day basis and ser.ved sia
Deputy Chief of the Systems;; Section vdille COLEIiAN vlas the Chief, •
He stated that from JL^S^^ito^ebr.uary, .1952 > they Were ^al&d, in .. - ^
•.the same bah .pool. . ■... -
I LEVINE stated that since 194^, '^'he and nin wife have been associated
.iflth OOLBllAM and his wife <onJa’- social basis and that they see - • -
each other Oh the average 'of ‘>about once a montli; LEVINE stated ■ ' -*
that before COLEMAN was -married, he and COLLHAl! eoraetiiries Worked - '
aft each other'- s homes at.nlj^t.\i _ ^ - . - ---
LEVINE stated that’ he bellewefl' he knov;8 CCLEMAN very Well aiid that.
COLEKiil! is unquestionably loyal to the United States i He stated
that C0LE11/\N has ex 3 >resDed his feelings toward the US oh iaahy .r-
. occasibhB and that COLEMAN. haa been very security cohociqua. s.lnce,':.
hb Was. reprimanded several years ago for removing classif ied ’ "■/. -
codUjnehtb from the Laboratory/ LEVINE etated that he was cqrt£iln '
that-^'OLEIu-i'I' B only intent at that time was to be able to per-’;
fortil Wot*k at night which he could not get done in the day tiritei' / - ■
lEvINE stated thathe n Iso consider s.’. COLEI i/vW* s wife to be idjral . .
tb the Uiiited States*' ' * - . : -* • -i-
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* 90 Be&chwood Ave. •
West itong Branch, N.J,
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of CuL£I^Ai*B oios6fit“ associates" has been JACK OKUli; LEVI^iE Stated
that COLEMAII has known Oi^N for about 20 years . He stated that
.OKUM vrent to high ‘school "and’ nollege with COLKliAl^ end tiiat tliey
had- lived- together^ fqr_sev:eraV years prjLor to the time OKUN got
married; — A ' ■:• — ~ -.-rr'
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LEVINE stated that HARVEY -L^ -SACKS and FRED KITTY had M6r)tea under
COLEhAN'B supervision In the early 19^0*6 at Ctjnjp Evans * but t'lot
he did not. know the exact degree of tlielr relationship other than .
tJie. f act that they had; worked^ under COLEHAI'l's supervision*', , ■
Conoernlng JOSEPH PERCOPP, 'LEVBIE stated that he^=^couid. not Recall
anjone by that hame.c^r . i: . .
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i40~219~<?~3 Nev/ark ^report dated 11/6/53 By SA HORACE ASHEHr£I/r5R}
entitled! "HiiUTiICE S. BLUM aka." Security of Government EifiployeeSf =
which reflects the following information; MAURICE S. BLUll ■ listed
one SAMUEL LEVINE, 98 Beechwood Ave. , Nest Long Branch,
. E reference oh hls_Personal^ History Statement doted 9/1/50*, . ^ t . .
will be noted that SAHUELTiEVINE, Deputy Chiefs Systems Spctipn.^
N. J.j v:ae under .
ecutive Order
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Holablrd, Baltimore,'Md. ,""Baitimore Air-Tel to Bureau 10/22/53<
By memorandum dated 6/27/52,’ .the Chairman, Loyalty Revlbw Board, -.
U.S, Civil Service- Copmisslon .^advised thot tVJiUEL LEVINE wrS ;
“eligible on loyalty .^ • - . .
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_ Mrs. ESHELI4AN stated that the GLASBMAN family was" - .
rather ' an~odd - faraily-and -did.-not seem jco ^ve close family ' A
Mnat nf* thA ar.AY»s anri t:hA KY»nt:>iAT» xr awaxr^'P'nnTn
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ESHELMAN stated that when she .was about !
.-‘jj^/'eighteen or nineteen years of age, shortly out of high
A AlimmAvft a avmv\ aavma maaa I 1 \%w *' '*''* £.- * ''.'^ ' ^
‘ school, she attended a summer camp, name not recalled by
VIVIAN GLASSMAN. She said that she believes that VIVIAN
VIAN ' ■’ ." '* 11'“ -'.if ^v
.;!y£t i.- GLASSMAN was a graduate of Hunter Girls College and that she
did graduate work at New York City College and also at
Brooklyn College in New York, New York, She is a very
brilliant -student. ^ VIVIAN was supposed to have worked xt
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^^^^c'VIVIAN was -also supposed to havjs been a secretary of a
Maritime sUnl on in New York City and did other social 'work,
^{'4 also was supposed to have acted as a counselor at' various "'* y- .,
summer camps in the New York area, . ~‘.!i - .
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specifically who made the remarks but she had heard it
Mrs, ESHELMAN stated that she does not recall V
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remarked that VIVIAN associated with Comrounista or Communist ; ...,, 7 - .-
sympathisers. She also had heard that some of the summer ,
;jis:.. C8twps where VIVIAN was a counselor were inclined toward . .- ’ . v - ; ^
^V“ Communism. Mrs, SSKELHAH stated that the older brother of/: .C'i’ 'iV.'
k'-. • .
VIVIAN appeared to be the one who Influenced the family
. She believed that he wrote for
, York 'Hand was supposed to go aroimd with
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Trust Ccanpahy, 230 Second Avenue, NpKjJTiirk -_. '
City, As o^ February 1, 1953 the balance in this account ^
AmAimt’.Arl tin ftoA , n9» rtiml «»’■ l-.'hA tn/sMt-.Vi nf .TorMiowr 1 QCIi .^.Ka !** •
this ^account was extremely
limited.
Xt will be noted that ARTHUR BARR is the brother or:.^~ A
.JOEL BARR. JOEL BARR, according to DAVID GREENOLASS, was an-.^VsTTvt'?^
active Soviet .agent in the United States prior to his
departure for Europe in January, 1948, and was engaged .in
Soviet espionage with JULIUS ROSENBERG. This information ■ , / ?-‘'U;-^'
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year sentence* at -the- United States .Penitentiary,
Pennsylvania, having been convicted and sentenced
^•f-^ctonspiracy to commit espionage* .
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■ • .* ■ T-3, of known reliability, has advised that he
believed that one of the GLASSI4M sisters vas arrested at one
^j^<‘.V''tlme in Rochester, Uew York, -for havr’.ng distributed
" - '-^'Commxmistic litcrat\ire, ' . ‘ ■ ■ -
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-iyi. ■■*,/, A search of the records of the Identification '
.^^^Dlvision, Rochester Police Department; City Court Clerks
Office, city of Rochester; end Criminal Arrest Records,. . .
Monroe ,Cotmty Sheriff’s Office, which covers Rochester,
pj'yfailed to locate any arrest record for the CLASSMANS '
(ELEANOR or VIVIAN). ‘
■ - T-4, of known reliability, has advised that open
-session hearings were held by the McCarthy committee on
December li>, 19i>3^ in the United States Court House, Foley ~ ^:'v1h''r
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'3^i^|.‘:Square, New york.\(Among the witnesses appearing at the
hearing was ELKANO^HUTNER, 144 Henry Street, .Brooklyn, .JNew .
fcCtXoEk. According to the informant,' ELEANOR HUTNER read a .
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prepared stateiuanx; concerning an objection to the McOartJay
Committee *3 jurisdiction^ but she was interrupted by McCarthy/:^ •
who “ruled ‘that her statement .-was . not .per tlnent . to the ; ■ J . Ij,- j — r
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Committee's questions, HUTNER stated that she had been employed
at Port Monmouth (NewiJTerJiey) in 1942-1943 • She was appointed ^ , -
, to this position through Civil Service, HUTl^ER testified that - /fu
she did not handle classified material while at Monmouth. _
While employed there, her work, she said, dealt with staridard"vf- ■
Signal Corps equipment, and she was uncertain whether some of - j
-.this equipment was used in radar. ELEANOR HU^’NER testified
that' she did not know whether she had been cleared for access'^
tb-secret or confidential material. , ,
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- (2) Did JULIUS ROSENBERG suggest , that you go.r.to •.'
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(1) Did JULIUS ROSENBERG discuss y our “ employment
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•with JULIUS ROf'.LlREHG and VIVIAN GLASSI-IAN? .- - •.•’i ' cX’:
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-(5) 'Whether she had prevaricated in obtaining':y:;%'^v:^3l:a^^
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(6) V/hether she was a member of che Communist , '
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(B) Whether she ever was a member of a g 2 *oup v
advocating the overthrot-i of the United States
. - Sovernment by, force or violence. .1. -.-...r'V'x
(9) Whether she is a member or the Communist Party X
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(10) Whether she ever dlsciissed with a Communist
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'This case omotMATSp at
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CMAAACmt or GASI
VIVXAR P-ATAKI, oea Olasaman* was
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faVNOPSIS OP PACTS
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'Hra. 3AKUEL H. ESHTtRAS advlead aha i»a an acevalataaea of "the ^ 4^0
aubjaet irhen thay resldad In the aaaa Roneral neighborhood In v
^4 HTC# She atfltod that ahe heard that 7171 AK PATAKT was : ‘ ^
asaoelated with Connnniata or Comaunlat ayapathlaera. .
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Kp« and Hra. SARUEL E* ISHELRAH, 3370 Branna Araxraa,
Saiaa^ Oregon#, were Interviewed Doeember B# 1^3 aadiV^§>
fnmlahed the following infematlon oonoeralng tha
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' Hr. FSHEtRAM aUted that he first net Hra. PATAKi; '"^
i ; whose nniden nane la 7171 A5 0TASSHA7 about three yeara »eP
*>Vf whieh was before TITIAJT. waa narrled* Ee has not seen her f >' V'
since and la not at all aoqualntod with her*\%./
^V -Slnca and la not at all aoqualntod with her*
i.' ttra. ESHKLWAe W ted that she had toown 717117 .
OtASSMAB alnee both of then were thirteen dr f o\irteen yeara';^^-/;;!:^^'?
• . "'nf age .which was over tireBty‘yeara ago* They llved.ln ^to ^
/.: aa»e general neighborhood In lew Tor k# Ifra, F-?EFTJiAW*a
f,/ parents residing at 309 taet Ponrth Street and 532 East '
Fifth Street. -VIVIAB OLASSMAK lived at aoae .address on , .-.=e:
Vi ; Eighth Avenue between Avenue C and Avenue B« 7TVTAJf*a father .-r;i^:V
had died a number of yeara before Hre. BSHHtMAR {STLVIl) =>t
1.. knew her and her nother la now remarried. 7IVIA* had tfarea
alatera# HORTETTnE# GLADYS and ELSAROR and one brothar# name,.- V^V!^.
not recalled by Kra. ESntLJUH# who was the oldest ehlld of v'^v.~
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Office ^/ismOYClYlduiTl • UNITED STATCS GOVERNMENT
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DATE: October 6^- 1953
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SUSPECTED ESPIONAGE^ FT, UO]fMOUTB,^EW JERSEY,
AND FEDERAL TELECOMMUNICATION LABORATORIES,
NUTLET, NEW JERSEY / /
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The Department of the Army hae alleged that a
’^poestble espionage ring^* is operating in the electronics ^ ^
field, particularly in the installations in the above .y .{
caption, ■■ [
The Neioarh and New York Offices have reviewed ‘ I
Army dossiers on 677 individuals and have checked their * P
office indices for derogatory information. The Bureau hoe'"
j '. .Z:also checked its indices for additional derogatory information
and has advised Newark and New York of the results, Newark',j^^"
the office of origin, correlating all information and -is *
submitting to the Bureau its recommendations as to what
action is being taken on each individual. These -
recommendations are being reviewed at the Bureau for approval
or other action, . \i
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ACTION TO BE TAKEN BY SUBSTANTIVE SUPERVISORS
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^ubstantive supervisor -in the Espionage, Internal ■Seeuriti/’- './ f
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recommendation or take whatever action he deems necessary.
The action taken by the. supervisor or his approval should
be noted below in the designated place, .
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There are attached one copy each, of the Newark,
New York and Bureau summaries together with Newark* s
recommendations. Indicate action taken and return,
immediately to Supervisor F, L, Jones, Room 2710, Espionof
Section, with the attachment, ‘ ^
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-inwcetiyatton of-tohich. Ne\D_.T.or1s _is_origih (^file (^•‘593341 New jork '
file 65-15335; Newark file 100-23348). The New York d^nd Newark
summaries reflect pertinent information relative to the activittea:/^!{
of this subj'ect. Copies of reports in the espiowxge investigation-i^!)f.\
of Classman have not been disseminated to the Amy, - =■
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Julius Rosenberg
Ethel Rosenberg
Uildred Bloch
Stephen £. Javna
i>ai;id Greenglass
William Perl
Judith Oro liman
. Esther Luttan
Alice Kate
Leonard Boudin
Ernest- Joseph Rataki
Leonard Be;;er
Gladys, Classman "
Eleanor Classman
Vivian Fruchtbaum
David Greenglass
Stephen L, Javna
Leonard B, Boudin
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SUBJECT : “VIVIAN GLASaiAI^
ALIASES: t4RS. ERNEST JOSEPH PATAKI> VIVIAN PATAKI, ”VIVI£n GL&SSHAN,
VIVIAN CSLASSMEN, MIS. S. GOIDBERC
DOB: I/30A9 FOB: N.Y.C.
liARRIED; SPOUSES NAI'E: ERNEST JOSEPH PATA^:I
FORMERLY EMPLOYED FT. MONIffiUTH
219 E. 7th St., New York Citj
343 E, dth St., New York City
388 Broadway, Long Branch, N. J.
688 Broadway, Long Branch, N. J. '
IS North Broadway, Long Branch, N. J.
320 Ocean Ave., Long Branch, N. J.
.J; , , . 131 E. 7th St,, New York City
PAST EMPLOa^ENTS
5/25/42 - 3/18/43 - Ft. Ktonmouth, N, J.
4/8/43 - 9/1/43
HEUTIVES
SADI?^^0'.IITi?^ASS^^AN, SADIE/IUUCH - Mother
MILTONjgiASSiiAN - Brother ' ,
■' HORTEWSB-^SNDLNICX - Sister' ///./■
GLADYS Oj^SSMAN - Sister
EIEANOrmASSMAJJ - Sister
ERNEST JOSEPH PATAKI - Husba»i -- •
REFERENCES
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DAVSTLAIGBi, 1023 Avenue St. John, Bronx, N. Y.
Miss ,W^>^RSYTH, 9110 Harvard St., Clairmont, Calif.
His9.^Sl3jX)TT, 147 . Avenue B« New York City
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' Subject %fas Secretaiy of Local 236, UFWA, and a charter nenftier ^
• of the tJ*N« Club.
According to ANDREW J* REID, on 9/7/50 it was reliably reported -
that subject had supplied photographs or photostats of certain infonnation
to the ROSENBERG-SORRriL-GREENGLASS combination, and that this took place
after- her-employment was. terminated.ln. ^^_al^_MiDai<3nted that
subject was very active in the tJFWA meetings and was 8ecretazy~of the UFWA
and, further, that it had been reported she was an active Communist organ!'
eer and sympathizer. - -
All other derogatory infoimatlon in the CIC file was furnished
by the FBI. : .
2) ON ASSOCIATES ' , . ' v . - i:
The following individuals are listed in the CIC file on subject
as being associates of subject. All of the derogatory information in this
CIC file pertaining to these listed associates was furnished by the FBI:. -
JOEL BARR
JULIUS ROSENBERC
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DAVID GSEENSLASS
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IEONARD BELLEA H 'f
liEST JOSEPH PATAKI
CIC file reflects^^^lpreglstered with the U. S. Department of ;
State as^a foreign agent, was editor of "This Week", and a former secretary;
of "The Committee of Anti-Nazi literature"; was discovered se^^Iiing through
desks at Ft. Monmouth. _
3)^ ON REUTIVES --
SADIE RAUCH GIASSItAN. Mother
/ v^'^gistered in the
SAIJJC^mASSMAN.r
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ALP in. 1946 in N ew Yo rk City, under the name, *.
. GLADYS CILASSMAN. Sister ■
’ - - Supervisor for a club of the AID .in Lo3^Angeles,_Calif. .bhel'slBoV
llvW at the residence of HEIEN and lEO CHARIS3:!^UEB in Los Angeles, -both
of whom are active members in the Echo Park CPA Club» , . ' '''
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EIEAHOR G1ASS14AN. Slstei
J < In addition to infonnation furnished by the FBI, the CIC file for
subject reflects EIEANIH GLASSl 4AN was present at a oeetins of
^^n^Br^ch, N* J«, on 8/28/43, and that she was an associate
I'- €IP tb)('<.)^6K-»V<^)
' IffiROGATORY PiFOieiATIOiJ IK tjEWAHlC FILES
ON SUBJECT
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VIVIAN GLASSl^AN is the subject of an ESPIONAGE - R, ISA<-50 imresti—
gation of which the New Yoz^c Division is the office of origin. New York,
therefore, will report the derogatory information in FBI. files on subject ** '
and her relatives, references and associates. There is no derogatory infoma-
tion in the Newark files which is not in the possession of New York. •
2) ON ASSOCIATES
JOiil. BARR
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Was a member of the Soviet espionage apparatus in %fhich JULIUS > ^ '
ROSENBERG functioned. '
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, JUDITH GROUiiAN ' " “ ■ . w-.
* Alleged to have been in 1943 e CP menber or engaged in activities,
strongly evidencing CP membership. (2tt)LL'IAH was a shop steward in the ConmunistT* 0.
dominated Monmouth County Chapter of UPrfA in i934« - -
ESTHER LUTTAN < . ' 7- \ ;
' Siibject of on SM-C investigation instituted in the Newark IkLvisioh 'r 7
in 1943 on the basis of her suspected membership in the Shore Branch of the
CP from March to August, 1943< Hew York was designated as office of origin -
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ALICE KATZ '' ..... ,
Member of the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Edueationai , ^
Committee of the Itonmouth County Chapter of the UFWA. New York is office '
of .origin* .
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■ Metuber UF;/A. Read "In Fact", which was cited by HCUA as a Conanmlst' - *
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^Comtoit^e of Antl^azi Literature”* "This Week” identified as British. . x-
pub^cation suppressed by British Government because its editor associate 'i
vith British Daily Worker. HCUA cited the "Canmittee of Anti-Masi -i'
Literature as a Communist Front orgaxiization. [}}'•:<'
VIVIAN FRUCHTBAUH
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Intervleired by SAs on 3/13/53 • Declined to furnish any infonoatlon
.regarding individuals she had known and who were employed at Ft. Monmouth
during period she worked 'thera. 'Lidicated she could not fUxnish any-inform-.
tion regarding VIVIAN QASS!4AI] because it had been too long ago that she
had been associated with her. Investigation disclosed VIVIAN (3>ASS!*IAM had :
spent the day at FRUCHTBAUM‘s home on 10/14/52. / ’ .'v. i
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at NYC admitting that he was recruited for Soviet espionage by his wife,
HUTH GREENGLASS, about 11/29/A4» at the request of his brother~in-law, '
JULIUS ROSENBERG. GREENGIASS stated he gave HARRY GOLD, in the summer of
1945* a sketch of a high esqploslve experimental lens mold then being .used
for experiments in arriving at critical uranium mass at Los Alamos atom bomb a.
project and information regarding personnel at Los Alamos. GR E E N G IA SS was V
indicted by USGJ^ SONY, on IO/IO/ 5 O for conspiracy to violate the Wartime
Espionage Statute^ Sub Section A, Section 32, Title 50, USC. JULIUS R O SENBER G, •
ETHEL ROSENBERG, ANATOLI A. YAKOVLEV and MORTON SOBELL were named as co>' .U . /
defendants. HARRY GOLD and RUTH GREEiNGLASS were named as co-oonspirators.^o . .
GHEESOASS plead guilty on loAO/50 in the USDC, SONY. He was sentenced to • :
15 years imprisonment on 4/6/51* v-
STEPHEN L. JAVNA
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pending investigation, ESPIONAGE - R, of which Newark is the office of -
origin. This investigation was based upon information that JAVNA and his
wife were associates of subject and ELEANOR GLASS14AN. JAVNA was a elass^ ''
mate of JUUUS ROSENBSIG at CCNY. Fr«n 1946 to 1946 JAVNA had business ‘ -
dealings with the G & R Engineering Co., ROSENBERG* s and DAVID GHeeNGIASS* •
.firm* The name ” JAVNA” appeared in the address book of ALFRED SARANT.
JAVNA was interviewed 8/13/53 by FBI Agents and advised he had a CP meniber-
-ship card under the name, STEPI^ LOUIS, and had attended a few open CP
meetings. JAVNA insisted he is not and never has been a Comminist or a, '
CP member, except as related above.
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information in the Newark files which does not appear to be in the possession
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advised agents of the Newark Office that he represented the CIO in an '
action against the UOPi^A. B£ND£3i stated that BOUDIN represented the ^
and described him as "a most dangerous Conmmnlst”.
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Was an associate of JULIUS ROSEI'iBEtiG and of many of the indivi-'
duals Included -in- the -ROS£I^B£lRG_Sovlet_esplpnage_ apparatus. PSU> was
indicted on four counts of perjury in connection with his denials ~of '
knowing )>K)RT0N SOBEU,, HEim ELITCKEB, JULIUS ROSEI^BERG, MICHAEL and ASHE
SIDOROVICH. He is presently serving a prison term following his conviction
upon two of the counts of the indictment, in that he knew MORTON SOBEIL and
JULIUS BOSSNBERG. . > * .
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Was an active member of the CoaEnunist-dominated Monmouth County
Chapter of UFV/A and resided with several officers of this organization who
were reputed to be members of the CP.
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On 10 / 10/50 a federal Grand Jury, SDNY, indicted JULIUS ROSEMBSG, '
ETHEL ROSENBERG, ANATOLI A. IAK07IEV, MORTON S03ELL and DAVID GHEENGLASS
for conspiracy to violate the Wartime Espionage Statute, Sub Section A, ' ^
Section 32 , Title 50, USC. On 3/29/51 MORTON SOBELL, JULIUS and ETHEL ‘ f •
■ ROSENBERG were found guilty by a Federal Jury in SDI'IY. On 6/19/53 the ^
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' ERNEST J. PATAKI. Husband (Subject of blind
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of his apartment revealed a quantity of CP literature in his possession.
An informant of known reliability advised PATAKI was a meiia>er and leader
in Local 231> UOPWA, at FTL, and was, in informant's opinion, a CP msober ;
or CoDBunist syiq>athlzer* ' - - .. ;
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;which,-New lork is the office of origin, NT 100-2? 571» . . ;
GL'^DK GIAS^IAN, Sister (Subject of blind memo^
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JUUUS ROSENBERG functioned*
JUUUS roSENBSaQ and ETHEL ROSEHBgg}
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York, iniicatod JULIUS ROSSNBSIQ, ETHEL ROSENBERG, ANATOU A. TAKOVLBF,' ‘
MORIXSj SOBEUi, and DAVID (HIEENGIASS for conspiracy to violate the Dartina
espionage sta'tate^ Sub-*3ectlon A, Section 32 j Title '50^ T^Cm On 3/29/51^
5tfmTeTJ. and the ROSENBERGs irere found guilty by a Federal Jury in the ^ .
Southern District of N.T. On 6^9/53 the ROSENBEEGs nere executed in '
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. 1^10 Da 9 a Government iiitaess against SOBRIL and the ROSEiNBSROs* --He received
a 15-yBar sentence for his part in the conspiracy* .........
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WmiAM PERL
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P^t; nas an associate and acquaintance of JULIUS ROSEMBSSttl,
mas tried, ooxivlcted and executed for espionage* He has been Inv ol^
mith and assocdated with many of the persons included in the ROSKNBEEG '* ' -
apparatos. PERI mas indicted for perjury in connection mith his testimony
in the ROSENBERG case, and he is presently serving five years for perjury*
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JUDITH GROLUIAN
- Alleged to have' been engaged In activities strongly evldenolng -
^ CFoenhership lAile serving as shop steiaid in Comnunist dominated Monmouto
" County chapter of UFWA. Many of her associates were associates of AXHOD' .
SARANT, who was reliably reported to be engaged in espionage with JULTOS
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Sevark Division in 1943 on the basis of her snspected membership in thf^ - i'-"'
Shore Branch of the CP from l^ch to Augustj 1943* New York was designate
as office of origin in this case by the Bureau in «hily« 1944«
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ERNEST J. PATAKI
[was a member of Local 238j DFIiA* -I
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Ehployad at ^TL from 1944 to 1950* 4 permissive search of his ' .4'. '
apartment by Bureau Agents revealed a large quantity of Conmunist literature
which PATAKI described as union literature* Ehile at FTL> he was steward
of the UOmAj which was alleged to have been Communist dominated*
laiDRED BLOCK
She has been reported as a member of the Ubnmouth County CP; however^
this information was discredited idien it was leamed that the membership . . .
list bearing her name was actually the list of UF^ members* CIC files
reflect she has associated with numerous references and associates who < -t
have been connected with subversive activities at Ft* Monmouth* ■ 1,
STEPHEN L* J&VNA “ ^
During an interview on 8/l3/53j JAVHA admitted he applied for
manibershlp in the CP using 'ttie name STE^llElI LOUIS* He also advised that . ' . 4 -
in 1946 to 1948 he was the owner of a cocqiany which sublet some of his work
to JULEUS RCSEMBSU}^ idio operated tho G and R Engineering Co* in N*Y*C*
AUCB KATZ
She was active in. the UFRA idiile es;)loyed at Ft* Monmouth in
194^1943* was a member of the Enscutive Committee and Qiaiiman of -
the ♦.t.ftfl of the UoiiiDouth Chapter of the UifWA> and it was
doubtful that she could have held such offices if she had not been in r:''
fiy mpAtJiy with Commini,nt principles* In 1943 she was kncnin to have been the
girlfriend of JOEL BARR^ suspected espionage agent mantioned above* vl;:
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BOUDIH la a CP functionary in the N*Y*C* area* He has been , j "
described b7 ft Newark Infoxvant as a dangerous Comnnnlst*
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fornlsh information eonoaming indivldiuals she had known and who wera,'v'**"'” y^v
emploj^ at Ft. Ibnmouth. Duxing that interview, ehA stated she aas ,1-
luable to give any inf onnation concerning one VIVIAN GIASSMAN on the gro un ds '
it had been too long sincedie associated with GIASSUAN. It is noted that ':
■at the time of the above refusal, VIVIAN GIASSU&N is known to have visited --y-
_her_appro3ciinatel3r five months before*
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BBTIfR was registered as a foreign agent under the Foreign ‘J’.
Agents Registration Act while he served as editor for^e Veek** This vs
publication was Identified as a "British publication which was suppressed '
by the British Government because its editor was associated with the ' * .
British Daily Yorker**
GIAD7S GIASSMAN
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She was registered with the AIP in N.Y.C. in 1943* Her sister^.
VIVIAN, is married to ERNEST J. FATAEI, a close friend of JUUIS and
ETHEL RCSENBERO. CIC files show she was a supervisor of an AID club in ;
los Angeles, Calif*
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Sister of the above GIADIS and VIVIAN* She is the subject
of an SU-C case. New York origin. One FEIREZ ZAGORIN visited EIEANOR’s >
residence in long Branch, N.J*, whore he gave Instructions to civilian .
employees of the Signal Corps, who were organizing the BFKA* CIC files
Indicate that the UEYiA was Communist dominated.
Miss W. PORSTTH
- The name Miss UNIFRiiD FORSYTH, 620 Plymouth Rd*, Clairmont,
Calif*, appeared on a list of voters in the Socialist Party in los Angeles yyy '
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-zWV^' She has been employed as a social worker and ,was a close; y;f-rri-.r>.i
friend of Julius and Ethel Bosenberg, executed Soviet agents.
She is a fozmer girl-friend of Joel Barr, a socle t agent «dio left
the Orated Spates in January, 19U6. She is a fonner associate
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^^;;.tho arrest of Julius Rosenberg on July 17, 1950. She made an •
airplane trip to Cleveland, Ohio, under the name Mrs. S. Goldberg
and coertly attenipted to induce William Perl to flee to Mexico, ' - wir-r^-.-
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and offered him ^2,000 to finance his flight. She advised the '
-money was received by her from an unknown man iho cEilled at he r -t ^
.*V.. apartment on July 21, 1950 but she refused to cooperate in ‘
identifying this individual.
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Office Memo/andum • united sii^xEs government
to # DIRECTOR, FBI (65-59336)
»OM It SAC, NEWARK (65-14-292)
DATE: -9/19/52
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PERJURY
Rerep SA PETER F. MAXSON 8/29/^ at Albany wherein
Newark is recpested to Interview PREST WNi^HLIiAK , 32 Shanley
Ave., Newark, N. J. regarding his knowledgfevof subject's
associates and activities* . .
It should be noted that on l/l2/bB the Bureau forwarded'
to Newark a photostatic copy of report dated ll/lS/47 which the
Bureau received fx;oni the Military Intelli<5^ce Division of the
War Department cbriceming PRtSTON LiiOHARD'^^^iAi^ of 32 Shanley
Ave., Newark, N. J. v4io was accused of bein^a Communist.
is alleged to have openly discussed the politics^
and policie^or the Russian Government influence I
the armed forces. His wife,flH||^m|^H^^.'eer,
a signer of the Joint Ant^Easci^^iefu^e
JcOTniWee Petition. She advised others to read K.^IRL KA;\>I,
-/expressed unusual, interest in Russia, and declared the U. S. way
re t owards Fascism every day. According to this report,
frequented the Frigate Book Shop in Baltimore, Md. ,
Ion center for Communist literature, ;
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and his wife are known to have associated with pro
-Fascist groups engaged in Communist activities
while residing at Edgewood Civilian Dormitories, Edgex> od Heights,'
Kd. They both were reported members of the United federal sorkers
of America, CIO, Local 227, which is de^^j^^^L as being Comravinlst
dominated. This Army report indie ates^^^^^^Vvjas interviewed
3/2/I4I4. and explained that Finland was He stated the
Aioerican Press was subsidized and published what the Fascist
advertisers wanted published. He said the U. S. law makers were
either Fascist or sub-sidized by Fascists, and said he had . ' ~
documentary proof of his accusations. He said America was at the
crossroads and would be either Fascist or Communist. According
to this report, his wife said that in the event of a conflict •<-
Russia and the U. S., Russia would be victorious, and /
agreed with his wife on this statement.
'1' V lead as set forth in rerep will not be cover^\K o V *
this time unless 'advised by the Bureau that they* desire ^
interview with the PERLMANa. \ LC' '
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now deceased, were friends o*f Mr, and Mrs, Bayton in Ithaca,
’Mew Tork, Bufilea contain MIL Report dated 11-^18^47'
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reflecting Ferlnan in Amy 194^46 and hia wife a civilian
employee at Edgewood Arsenal, investigation by Ar^ J
authorities reflected they were both pro~Communiat^(lOO^‘354167) y
Bulet 10^8-52 reaueated Mewark to determine Ferlma^s vreaent m
\r Bulet 10»8S2 requested Mewark to determine FerlmaiPa present i
' activities and submit recommendations for an interview. In ^
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.r i. .i-^i9w of negative results of Mewark inquiries as reflected in
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pertinent information contained in Bufilea re Perlman y
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65-59387
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Ko Indies tion of csployaent at Foi^ Hcni^outh.or PTL,
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.<lIg3r-T‘I-.!VV;, DEP/X}Aq»ORY INPORHATION IN VEWAriK FIIFS: '
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. JUL.rui no-‘.E:.T.r:iG
JULIUS cmd ETHEL were aeiaberc of a BuoBiajr"-- •
^‘splonace Apparatus and wer« convicted of conspiracy to coinnlt
eaplcnat:e against the U. S, They were convicted in U. S. Fedei-al
Court aentcAced to death and electrocuted on 6/19/53 ot Sjng i>ing
i’rlacn, Ocslnlng, New iork.
vivl'li; Qijj.'ysv.kii
UIASSi4/‘il was a girl friend of Joz,L BAIUt, and has been
identified by LAV ID OlirLKGL/UJS . as a oembar of the MOSKIJDKKC ,
apparetuc. She. has been aeaoclated with many of the persons ■
involved in this ring coid admitted to FBI Agents that she delivered
$2,000 to WILLIAM P£HL in Cleveland with Inctructlons’ ft*r his ‘
flight from the V, 6, to Mexico. This money supposedly came frora
a Soviet Af,ent. After P/iliL refused the money, she was ern^seted
by this man who reclaimed the Boney . She has refused to identify
this Snoiv'dual. • — ^ - ■: -y.-: j
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. ELEAlioh Newark flics r'lfleot GLALoMAi: ..Is' ‘ ' - f
the cubject of a S:'.-C cane, Wow YorV: origin. She is the sister
of ViVI/idl oL/\3GiUvh, who has assoc} v^d with perecAS li^^^^^ln
^T^Jlj^nbcrg Espionage ap;\''.ratuH.^^lC files reflect
referred to on pfvt^c two of^eekly Estimate of^Suovorslvc .
c.nted 9/iI/^3 vlnltc’l a Smcie at Ijcn^r hr. nch, !i. J»
on 0 / 26/43 for the purpcee of glvi/.c instructions to several
civilian employee ft of tho Signal Corps Orour.'l Slgn fil > ^^ncv Who
•are -presently or ganlzlj^ the UPWA-CIO for the ir ox^^^^<5o^Ji»8aK) — r-
to these was a resident of the abov tr . Tt f ,
.hpme/^hht^H^^H vlr.ited, and atter.deu tho neetln^tj OCT ‘M i^58 '
RECOMKENSATION
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oLge-R InveRti^.-.tlon of which hcwork is Offic-r^ of OrlRln.
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'"“SAMUEL lEVIRE
De^ty Chief
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Belnar. N. J.
HARRY A. FISHER, JR. nra
CMAMACTKR or CASE
-SBCURlTY-OF-GOVERIxlilNT -BtfLOYEES
' - . ' ^Eviiijs*8 association vith MCRTON SOBELL, JULIUS ROSENBHIC and
AARON COLEMAN set out. LETVINE received a one day suspeiislon In
- 5/52 for violation of Army regulation 380-5.\ HAROL D DUG ORE. WILLIAM B. G OJID, •
and HARO ^ A .^^ffl^llsted as references by o^INE.
. Docxanentatlon set out of SAMUEL PQMERANTZ,
BENJAMIN 2XKERMAN and IRVING STOKES, whose interviews are reflected in a —
previous report, < -
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REFERENCEi Report of SA HARVEY N. JOHNSON, JR., dated 12/26/50, at Newark. .
Bureau alr-tel to Newark, dated 12/7/53. ' ■ ‘ ^ ~ - - - . ^
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PtOPEBTY OF FBh-TMI8 COaFlOCiTlAL BEPOBT AMD ITS COIHITS ARE LOARED TO YOU BY THE FBI AMD ARE BOT TO BE DtSTilBUTED OUTSIDE OF
ABERCY TO ITNIOH LOAIEO.
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SAMUEL LEVINE . . - • • . ■ • ’ ^
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Belmar, Ne.v Jersey
SBCUHITY OF GOVFr.w?.!!?’T E.'PLOi'EES
December 11, 1953 ' - - -
Newark, New Jersey , .
III. RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION . '
During the course of another investigation conducted by the Federal ’
Bureau of Investigation in 1950, SAMUEL LEVDIE, Deputy Chief, Systems Section,
Evans Signal Laboratory, Fort >'onmouth, N.J., was interviewee and stated '
that he presently resides at 98 Peechwood Ave., »Vest Long- iranch, N. J.
He stated ha was acouainted with BO RTffjL'f^ELL as a fellow student
at City College of New Y ork from: 1934 to June, -^38. He considered S03ELL one
of the most intelligent 'students who was extremelj' interested in technical
-studies and very argumentative to the point where fellow students called him - .\-
a 'bcrewoall", according to LSVTIIE. The latter said that this was iue to some
of SOBELL's eccentric behavior, as for example, when cOd'iL would disagree
with an instructor in school, he would jump up and^n^rily shout his objections
to something said by the instructor instead of putting up a logical argument*
to refute any statements hy the ins time tor which SOBELL might have considered
erroneous. . • ■ . , '
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■ LEVIfJE stated that S03ELL could be classified as a .liberal or
■radical and explained that he believed a liberal to be one mho would support
the New Deal program of the ROOSEVELT administration, and a radical to te_-.
one who would sympathize •with and support the Connunist movement. ^ . ~ “ c
LEVDfE further advised that he accidently met SOBELL in June, 1942
^en LEVII»r' and his wife were retumirtg from ’-•.'ashington, D. C. afther their
honeymoon. S03ELL mentioned at that time that he had previously ■worked at r
the Na'vy Department in t^ashington, D. C. with som-r- other .'ormer CCMY classmates
of SOPELIj and LEVINS. SOD-XL also indicated to LEVE'IE at that time that- he l--.
had either just completed or was about to start graduate studies at the
University of ;jLchigan.
LEVIKE advised he later saw S03ELL at the -Evpns Signal Laboratory, . '
Fort Monmouth, H. J. , tihen S05ELL was present there v.ith other Reeves^ Iristrunent
Co. personnel for ctscussion with Signal Corps engineers regarding contracts . ,
between the’ 'two.
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: ■ ^S7';r '>.: tIjsvIhjs stated that he last saw SOBEIL dviring several visits heX
made ‘.to this Reeves Instrument Co. in New Torkon Sd.gnal Corps business hat'- - --'* ‘ "
had no contact with him other than casual greetings. LEVINE added that he
was never approached by SOBELL or anyone else to furnish unauthorised
informaticm of any kind.
4 • , LEVINE also advised that he was acquainted with JDLIDS 'ROSENBERG “ T "
. Xt'X another member of his CCNY class, but that his acquaintanceship did not . -
.extend beyond that. ■ He described ROSENBERG as being openly Communistie and . ,
vX;' admitting frequently his association with the Coamiunist movement. Be said..:"
■v^'AvX-^vthat R06ENBERiQ>a8 continuously atteiq)ting to interest other students in .>/•?•
X principles and activities of various Communist movements on the caucus,
and that he, himself, had been approached by ROSENBERG. He did not recall
specifically the nature of the approach but vaguely recalled that it was ' • ' '
along the lines of pointing out the benefits of Communism.
73': ' LEVINE also advised that ROSENBERG was seen passing out literature •
j3>r^.Liand was present at -various demonstrations held at City College of New York'.
-those -tiius.' ■ LEvimK denied .that' he had ever participated in any Communist
activi^, or that ROSEaiBEEG had ever succeeded in recruiting him /■ ‘
-3'>v.3 to that cause.
' The Communist Party has been designated by the . >
, Attorney General of the H. S. pursuant to
r ' Executive Order 10450.
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■ MORTON SOBELL was indicted, ^ied and convicted
for conspiracy to conmit espionage on March 29,
1951 and was sentenced by Federal Judge IRVING
R. KAIIF>1AN in Federal District Court, Southern
District of New York, to 30 ye.ars in prison.
JUUDS PDSENBERG was convicted in Federal
District Court, Southern District of New York,
on March 29, 1951 on charges of espionage. He
was sentenced to death by Federal Judge IRVING
R. KAUFMAN on April 5, 1951. This sentence was
upheld ly U. S. Circuit Court of Aj^als on
Pebruaiy 5, 1952. After various unsuccessful
appeals, JULItB ROSEHBBIG was executed on
. June 19, 1953. - , •
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HIKAJ? COI^liAN, Radio Ekigineer, Departmeni [
of the ArnyV Monmouth" N. J.", SAMDEL LEVINE, Acting Chief, Systems
Section, Radar Branch, E^ns Signal Laboratory, Belmar, N. J.; whose hone
“address“is 98 Beechwo^'~Ave;,~We3t Long Branch"; -Nv Jr; -advised -that he - - - --
^attended CCN7 and graduated in June, 1938, with a Bachelor of Electrical
.Engineering degree. . He stated that COIQIAN was a fellow Electrical
. Engineering student in the same, class and that he came to know COLEMAN fairly .
yell at cpUege, . ^thou^ they did^^not associate other than as fellow students «
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Be stated that MDirrON SOBELL and JULIUS ROSENBERG, the convicted
espionage agents, were also fellow students of his ^nd COLEMAN, but that to
the best of his knowledge, COLEMAN had no other relationship with them
other than as fellow students and did not know then outside of school. LevINE
stated that, since SOBELL and ROSENBERG were convicted of espionage, he and
COLEMAN have discussed them, and in their conversations, COLEMAN has indicated
: that he remembered them as fellow students at CCNf, but did not have aqy other'
" relationship with them.
. ' Be stated that COLEMAN had also remarked that since college, . he , ..l
had seen SOBEZL once or twice on Signal Corps business \ddle SOTETX was ~
working ..for the General Electric Corp., at Schenectady, N. Z., and the
Reeves Instrument Corp., New York City, which both had Signal Corps contracts.
LEVINE stated that from 1946 throvigh 1949 , he and COLEMAN attended
classes together at ni^t in the Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, H. Z., and
that they rode back and forth to classes together in the same caT»
' - ' LEVINE further stat^ that he has been acqu^nted with CCLEMAI^ ias " "
a fellow employee since March, 1940. LEVINE stated that he first worked with
COLEMAN in the same section at Fort Bancock, N. J. on Signal Corps business,
then at Camp Evans Signal Laboratory, Belmar, N. J. , xmtll 1944» when COLEMAN
vent into the Marine Corps. Be stated that during this period, they did not
work directly together, but hsd frequent contact on technical problems on ‘
which they both worked. ... ...
Be stated that frcn 1946 to 1950, they were associated at Evans
Signal Laboratory in the same manner except that they were much closer due
to their outside association at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. . LEVINE
stated that Aron 1950 to February, 1952, be worked directly under COLBIAN
oo a -fday- to-day basis, and served as Deputy Chief of the Systems Section
-while ^COUMAN was the Chief. Be stated that f^cn 1948 to February, 1952,^
they'^were also in the ‘sazae car pool.' '
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V- LEVIHE stated that since 1949» he and bis .wife 'have been associated''
- 'vith =COLEM&N and his vife on a social basis and that the/ see each other'
'the average of about once a month. LEVINE stated that before CQI£M&N was '''
married, he and COLEMAN some'tlmes worked at each o'ther's hemes at ni^t.
- LEVINE sta'ted that_he_belie'ves_he Jmows CCLEJIAN very well and that •
y- .. COLEMAN la unquestionably loyal to the D, S, He stated that'CdiEMAN Has“
espressed his feelings toward the U. S. on max7 occasions and that COLEMAN
'?</ ; has been very security conscious since be was reprimanded several years ago
for removing classified documents from the LaboratoTy. LEVINE stated that ’ - ^ .
'.^U-'^-Vhe was certain that COLEMAN'S only intent at that time was to be able to
-- perform work at night which he could not get done in the daytime. • • , '
the U. S.
lEVINE s'tated that he also considers COLEMAN'S wife to be loyal to
“Bie records of the Civilian Personnel Branch reflect that on ’
May 5, .1952, LEVINE nceived a reprimand which amounted to a one day suspension
‘ ••from ^ty t^thout pay for violation of Army regulation 380-5. Bie circumstances
' of this suspension were that on ^nril 22, 1952, at 8:00 p.m. , a safe was found ^
open and 'unattended at Evans Signal laboratory. LEVDlE.had been working after
hours and had initialed the sheet indicating tl^t he had checked the safe and^ Jl.
that it was in a secure condition. r . ...
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report
ft»ese re cords also
and
icate that lEVINE listec
as references in
HAROLD A. ZAHL's interview concerning lEVINE is set out in a previous'^
ErUSJ'Ii; GOULD, Also fjiomi As rtiTTiam D.'Tould, III, Bill, Billy, Lloctronic
Enpineer (Radio) , Sqxiier Si^mal Leboretcry, Department of the Army, Fort
lionmouth, Kt-J.” - — _
Concerning SAHUEL PCfl.’jiRAr’TZ, BBKJA.V:IW ZUCXESIIAK whose interviews
are set .out in a previous report, the following is noted:
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CiflERiiiifZ , Also Known As Samuel Poiaerenz, blectrohic Bnrineer (Radio) , Evan
Signal Laboratory, Department of the Army, Fort i.;onn’uuth,
, ZUCKERJ/IAB, Also Known As "Ben", "Zuck", Radio Engined, iratson Laocratories,
Red Bank, I.', J., Department of the Air, Force,"
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ADMIKISTRATIVE PAGE
Civilian- personnel-files, were .checked Jby SA_EDCT3IE C._J01IES
during the espionage investigation concerning LEVINE, and informatlOT~ ‘
concerning LE^^NE's suspension is taken from the report of SA JONES, dated
November. 6, 1953, at Newark, in the case entitled "SAMUEL LEVINE, ESPIONAGE
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UIIITED STATES DEPARTMERT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF IMESTIGATION
• TiUe: SiMUEL LETIRE
Deputy Chief
Systems Section
• Evans Signal Laboratory
Dept, of the Amy
. !■ Belmar, H. J,
. SECURITI. OF GOVERNMENT OF EMPLCffEES
Report of: SPECIAL AGENT HARR? A. FISHER, JR.
Date and Plane: December 11, 1953
Newark, N. J.
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PROPERTY OF FBI , • > .
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outside of agency to idiieh loaned.
This is an FBI investigatiye report
and makes no recommendation for
clearance or disapproval. _ .
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SAIDJEL ISVIHE
Deputy Chief
Systems Section
Evans Signal Laboratozy
Department of the Arny
Belmar, Nev Jersey
SECURITY OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
Decembw” iiyi953^
Mevark, Mew Jersey
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BESDLTS OP INVESTIGATION
' ' During the course of another iinvsatigation conducted hy the Federal
y.. Bureau of Investigation £n 1950, SAMU^ LEVDIE, Deputy Chief, Systems Section,
'. . Evans Signal laboratory, IFort Monmouth, N.J«, vas Intervieired and stated
. that he presently resides at 98 Beecheood Ave., West Long Branch, N. J.
* Be stated he was acquainted with tfiRTSM SOBELL as. a fellow student
^'.''‘''■at City College of New York from. 1934 to June, 1938. He considered SOBELL one. .
^'>>^;-';-.of the most intelligent^ students who was extremely Interested in technical
f :8tudie8 and. very argumentative to the point where fellow students called him
. ' a 'hcrevball", according to 1£VINE. Ilie latter said that this was due to some
->■ of sOBEIL’b eccentric behavior, as for exaiqple, when SOB 'll! would disagree _
; . with an Instructor in school, he would Jump up and anfprily shout his objections
I to something said fay the instructor Instead of putting vp a logical argument
to refute any statements by the instructor which SOBELL might have considered
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lisviNfi stated that SOBELL could be classified as a liberal or
radical and a:q>lained tlat he believed la liberal to be one who would, support
the New Deal program of the ROOSEVELT admlnlstratlan, and a radical . to, be., , .
~ one who would sympathize with and at^port the Comomnist movemeat. . . - "
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LEVINE further advised that he accidently met SOBELL in June, 1942
IT 4 when LEVINE and his wife were rstuznihg l^om Washington, D. C. afther their ~
' honeynoon. SOBELL menticsied at that time that ha had previously worked at
. the Navy Department in Washington, D. C. with some other former CCNI classmates '
f of ^BELL and LEVINE. -SOBELL also indloated to I£VINE at that time that he-
had either Just completed or was about 'to start graduate studies at the
: , . University of Michigan. . ' v-
LEVINE advised he later saw SOBELL at the Evans Signal Laboratozy,
fbrt ‘ Monmouth, N. J., when SOBELL was present there with other Reeves. Instrument.
. ^ , Co. personnel for dLscoa elan with Signal Corps engineers regarding contracts '
between the two. :. > •
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V •■ LfivxHG. stated liat he last .saw SOBELL during several visits he
riuide-^to the Reeves Insti^ent Cov Is 'Hev York on Signal Corps hoslneas haV'i;'
had no contact with him other than casual greetings. I£VII7E added that .he '
‘vas never approached by SOBEIX or ai^one else to furnish unauthorized
■ infomatlon of aiy kind.
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as .another .'Beaber of hiSfCCSY class,' but that his acquaintanceship did not'
.'v extend beyond that. ' 'Be deacrlbed ROSEBBERG as being openly ConmuMstic and
, ; admitting frequently- his association with the CossBaniat movement. Be said .
that^ROSEHBERG .vas .-continuously, atteiqiting .to' interest other students in-
'the principles and activities of va:^ous Coninmist movements on the eao^jus, '
- and 'that he, himself, had been approached ty ROSEBBQIG. He did not recall
speeifrcally the nature of the approach but vaguely recalled that it vas'
along, the lines of pointing out the benefits of Ccmmunlsm.
■ . xzvniE also advised that ROSENBERG vas seen passing out literature
-and vas present '.at --various -demonstrations held-.at City College -.of Hew York
ini- those timies .'- ^ Lisv J lhc denied that ha had ever ' participated in aaqr CammunisV
./or. related activity, -or ^ttiat^ROSEHBEBQ had ever ' succeeded in recruiting '.him
Jbo that cause. . ... ' ^ ^
.i . , Ihe CoBDEunist . Party has been designated by the.
“• • •> '■ . Attorney General of ttie U, S. pursuant to
Executive Order 10450.
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SOBELL and JULIOS ROSENBERG, the foUciilng is I':. .
vas -'indicted, tried and convicted.'i-V^.. 7 J,:-ji:^^^ i^^^^
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for^conspira^ to ooio^t espionage on March 29> >■ -
1951 and vas sentenced hy Federal Judge TRYING <'
R. KAUEMiK in Federal District Court, Southera
District of Bev York^ to 30 yeirs in prison. ^
JULIOS ROSEHB^G vas convicted in Federal
District Court, Southern District of Hev York,- .
on March 29, 1951 on charges of espionage. Be .-
vas sentenced to death by Federal Judge IRvlNG
R. K&OFMiB on April 5, 1951. This sentence vas.
upheld by 0. S. Circuit Court of Appeals on
February 5, 1952. After various unsuccessful
appeals, JOLIOB ROSENBERG vas executed on
June 19, 1953. . . ■
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^ address i8_9S Beec^ood Ato , , Loi^ Branch ,_ S, J. ; advised jthat he -
, attended CCII7 and graduated in June, 1938, vith a Bachelor of Eleclxleal
Engineering degree. He stated that COUEM&N vas a fellow Electrical VJ. •* \
^^Engineering student in the same class and that he came to know CGLmAH fairly
. yell at college,' alttioa^ they did not associate other than as fellov students
‘ He stated that MORTOT SCHELL and JULItE ROSBIBZRG, the convieted
.. 7.' . espionage agents, were also fellow students of his '■nd COLSIAI?, but that, to
'!•’ knowledge, COIEMAN had no other relationship vith them ”
'other than as fellow students and did not know then outside of school. IE71HE
, .x*-'- stated that ‘Since SOBELL and ROSERBQIG were convicted of espionage, he and
have discussed them, and in their conversations, COLEIIAN has indicated
that he.remambered as. fellov iStudacta at GCHf , tat did not. have any. other
y^iXatlonship ylth them, " •' '■ ^ ••
.relationship vith' them, v *.• ‘V;::-
.v'aV4j'-" . ^He 'Stated that COLESUN had also remari
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remarked that since college,- he
■;had . seen SOBELL once or twice on Signal Corps business while SOBELL was - ~
- • 7 *^ 4 General Electric Carp., at Schenectady, H, Y,, and the " •
' /C: ' Reeves Instrument Corp., Hew York City, which both had Signal Corps contracts,
LEVINE stated that fron 1946 through 1949, he and CGLQl&N attended.'
- V^^:::/velas8e8 together at nlg^t In -the Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, B. Y.i and
that they rode heck and forth to classes together in the same car, Vr *:
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fellov eil^loyee -since Karch, 1940. LEVUTE stated that he first worked with
,^• 1 :;:. ^ COLSIAN in the same section at Fort Hancock, B. J. on Signal Corps business, .
' then at Cas^ Evans Signal Laboratory, Belmar, R. J. , until 1944, when COLEMAN
■ -i.r,'-. Marine Cox^. Be stated that during this period, they did m>t .
‘work directly together, tat had frequent contact on technical problems on ' •_
which they both worked, .
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- Be etated that from 1946 to 1950, they were associated at Evans
•'ity' , Signal Laboratory in the same manner except that they were much closer due '
< to theiir outside association at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, LE7ISE , i ■
; ^stated that Ikon 1950 to February, 1952, he worked directly under COLEMaH''^‘:!Tr
o& a dayoto^y basis, and served as Deputy Chief of the Systems Section':.'' ?
J"/. idiile'COlBfAR was the Chief. He stated that from 194C to February, 19 52,\
_ ■ they were also In the same car pool,
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Lisviiijs stated that alnee 1949» he and his wife have been associate ■%
vlth COliEMAH and his wife on a soolal basis, and that they see each other on"'- '
the average of about once a nonth. LE7IKE stated that before COLEMiN ves
Barried, be and COLQtAH sonstlsies worked at each other’s homes at nigh^*
. 1£7IKE stated that he believes he knows COLHMAK very well and that
COLEMAN' is' uhquFst'ionabl^lc^al' to “tte He "stated "that COLEMARhas 7
eo^essed his feelings toward the U. .S« on many occasions and that C(H£KAN
has been very, security conscious since he was reprimanded several, years ago
/or. removing classified documents from 'the Laboratory. LEVINE stated; that. : .
^ was cerUiln that COLEMAN'S only .intent at that time was to be .ahle~:to/;-y>-T
perform work at night which he could not get done in the daytime.
the U. S.
UVINE stated that he also considers COLEMAN 's wife to be loyal to'
The records of the Civilian Personnel Brsneh reflect that on ‘ ^ ' '
May 5t 1952, LeVIhjs received a reprimand which amounted to a one day suspension
from duty without pay for violation of Amy. regulation 380-5. The ciren^tanoM
of this suspension were that on i^)ril 22, 1952, at 8tOO p.m. , a safe was found *'
open and unattended at Evans Signal laboratory. LEHTINE had been working after .
hours and had Initialed the sheet indicating 'Uiat be had checked the safe and . 1
that it was in a secure condition.
These recOTd^als^lndica^ that LEVINE listed
references in 19
■' - BAfiOLD. Aw, ZAEL* 8 interview eoneeming IZVIBE is set out in a'previons.
HAROU) A. ZAEL, Also Known As Hamid Ad el berl"lBlhli~ Director of
Engineering (Rese^b), Signal Corps Engineering laboratories, heparteent of
the Army,' Port Koimouth," H. J," ' . •"/"*
“HAROLO DCCOREp Also Shown Aa..I^6Id
arsky,^^Raaio~^glneerV’l)ept, of the Army, Port Monmouth, R. J,"
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jiK'lK GODLD, Also Kqoto As HlUian B. Gould, 111, BUI, 'in.ll7,'*nectroiiic
Engineer (Radio), Sqnier Signal Laboratory, Departnent of the Ar^, Port,
Ilonnoath,-H, J." - - — - . _ ' “1
Concerning SAHOEL P(SI!ERARTZ, BQIJAIilH ZUCEERUAH vhose interyiees
are set out .'in a nrerloos report, the folloving is notedt
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SAMUEL LEVINE - ' -
Deputy Chief
Systems Section
Evans Signal LaboratOTy
Dept, of the Army
Belniar,^N'.~J^
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During the course of another investigation conducted fay the Federal
■,V' ' Bureau of Investigation in 1950, SAl-IUEL LEVINE, Deputy Chief, Systems Section,
' Evans Signal Laboratory, Port Monmouth, N. J., vas irterviewed and stated *
that he presently. resides at .98 Beechvood Ave^ Vest long Branch, N. J..
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He stated he was acquainted vith^SOBELL as a fellow student at .
i'Ci^ College of New York from 1934 to June, 1938. Be considared SOBELL one .. v
-of 'the most intelligent students lAoias extremely interested in technical
. studies and very argumentative to the point where fellow students called him
■ a "screwhall**, according to LEVINE. Ihe latter said that this vas due to some
of S0BETL*8 eccentric behavior, as for example, when SOBELL would disagree
with an instructor In school, Ite would Jimq) and angrily shout his objections
to something said fay the instructor instead of putting up a logical argument
‘>V;to refute any . statements by the instructor idiich SOBELL might have considered
^^;erroneoua. •? v^. ::
- 'lEVINE stated that SOBELL could be classified as a liberal -or J..-.- -
‘radical and explained that he believed a liberal to be one %dio would support
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the New Deal program of the ROOSEVELT ^ministration, and a radical to be
one who would syiiq)athlse with and support the Communist movement. _ '
LEVINE further advised that be accidently met SOBELL in June, 1942 \
tdien LEVINE and his wife were returning from Washington, D. C. after their
honeymoon. SOBELL mentioned at that time that be had previously worked at
the Navy Department in Washington, D. C, with seme other former CCNY classmates -
of SOBELL and LEVINE. SOBELL also Indicated to LEVINE at that time that he
had either Just completed or vas about to start graduate studies at the - ' :
University of Michigan. - ...... 5 _.
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■ rV rSiEvnis advised he later saw SOBEIL at the Evans Signal Iaborat4^i^V‘i ,
Fort Mdnmouth, N. J., when SOBELL vas present there with other Reeves Instrument'
Co. personnel for discussion with Signal Corps engineers regarding contracts
between the two.
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V^?,;;.-. Concerning SAKDEL POMERAKTZ, BHIJiMIN ZDCKE31MAN a nd mmo OTO S B , .
• ^01pr.Mho8e Interylews are set out in a previous report, the following la noted: ']•
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y* Samuel Pomeranz, Electrmic kigineer (Radio), Evans
T^'-'. -Signal Laboratory, Department of the Amy, Fort Monmouth, H. J," -
‘ ' BEKJAMIH ZXKEPMAN was Investigated ty the PBI in Movember, 1951,' ■ '
'.'- under the provisions of Executive Order 9835, in thee^se entitled “BENJAMIM
V-'^i < ZDCKEFMAR, Also Known As "Ben”, "Zuck”, Radio Engineer, Watson laboratories.
Red Bank, N, J,, Department of the Air Force", “
’■ . 2W®G-ST0EES"was'investlgated-.by-tha-FBI Jji. November ;~-1953r'ln'
^ -oft-app^Acoot-typo^lnvestigation,
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