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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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Elizabeth Bentley testified before House Un-American Activities Committee that Russian Embassy's Anatol Gromov paid her $2,000 and notified her of a Soviet medal in 1945, implicating embassy in wartime spying. Collins denied spying; subcommittees planned for further testimony.
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Elizabeth Bentley Returns to Congressional Witness Stand
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—(A)— The Russian Embassy today was drawn directly into Congressional hearings of the alleged Communist wartime spying.
Elizabeth T. Bentley, who says she is a former Red spy, returned to the witness chair of the House Un-American Activities Committee and testified that Anatol Gromov, first secretary of the Embassy, paid her $2,000 in October, 1945.
She also said he told her the Soviet Supreme Council had awarded her a medal.
Her story of the money and the medal had been disclosed by committee members earlier, but she pointed for the first time to the Embassy as the source.
Miss Bentley, who says she gave her story to the FBI in August, 1945, also told the committee:
"The FBI has told me that in checking all of the evidence I have given them they never have found any major discrepancy."
The committee put Miss Bentley back on the stand after hearing Henry H. Collins, Jr., a former military government officer, deny that he was ever a spy for a foreign country, but refuse to say whether he is or has been a Communist.
Before he took the stand, Chairman Thomas (R-NJ) announced that a special subcommittee will go to New York tomorrow to take testimony in closed session from Michael Ivanovitch Samarin, former Russian school teacher.
Other members said there are plans also to send a subcommittee—perhaps of one man—to Canada, to get a statement from Igor Gouzenko, the former Russian clerk who was responsible for breaking the Canadian atom bomb spy case.
It was disclosed, too, that the committee contemplates a recess of the hearings here.
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Soviet Union
Event Date
Aug. 11
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testimony linked russian embassy to alleged spying; collins denied spying but not communism; subcommittees planned to new york and canada; recess contemplated
Event Details
Elizabeth T. Bentley testified that Anatol Gromov paid her $2,000 in October 1945 and informed her of a Soviet Supreme Council medal. She reported her story to FBI in August 1945 with no major discrepancies found. Henry H. Collins, Jr. denied spying. Plans for subcommittees to question Samarin in New York and Gouzenko in Canada.