Copied Secret Documents For Russians
XEW YORTv, June 1. The Government alieged to-dav at 1 1. •* perjury trial of Alger Iliss, former Sn.to Department Otlicial, tliat he was r- -puiisible, with his wife, for making i'", • vpewritten copies of 47 secret State Bfnartment papers. The Assistant United States Attorney M • Tltomas Murphy, said that the do■•"ments wefe all dated in the tirst ttiict' months of 1938. Mr M urphy said tio Government would prove that the — either copies or para]iluases of State Department papers — fli'ii' turned over to Whittaker Cham-h»-rs, tlie self-styled courier for tne Cimnmnist spy ring. Iliss, who was an adviser to President k(i.,s(>velt at the Taita conference, ig thargcd with perjury for testifying tliat he did not deliver secret GovernHeut papers to Russian agents and that he iiHver saw Chambers after January 1, 1937.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 June 1949, Page 5
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