SOVIET SPIES STILL WORKING IN UNITED STATES

Grey River Argus, 30 August 1948, Page 5

SOVIET SPIES STILL WORKING IN UNITED STATES

Congress Committee Calls For a Ban (Rec. 10.30). WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on U.n-American Activities to-day recommended legislation for the banning of all Communists from the U.S. Government service; also for denying them the use of passports; and for compelling them to register, thereby making themselves subject to "the weapon of exposure and detection”. The Committee, in an interim report, on its current Communist spy ring investigations, claimed to have definitely established that, during the war and since there have been numerous Communist espionage rings working in the United States Government executive agencies to secu.re vital defence information, and to relay it to Russia. The report statedthat there is every reason to believe that the Committee has merely scratched the surface of these activities,, and that such groups are still operating within the American Government The committee has recommended legislation and has also called powers, to make it easier for the Government to hold up or to imprison “foreign Communist emissaries”. ' . <»