ATOMIC MELODRAMA

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 December 1945, Page 5

ATOMIC MELODRAMA

MYSTERIOUS RUSSIAN OPERATIONS IN U.S.A. NEW YORK, Dec. 3. “The Journal American” says: A Russian Secret Service agent, who may have obtained atom bomb secrets, is at present' living at a New York hotel. He is under the constant surveillance of the F. 8.1., which has been trailing him for two years. “The Journal American” continues: “This Russian, though he is employed in an obscure Communist music shop, at a salary of seventy-five dollars weekly, possesses virtually unlimited funds, with New York bank accounts amounting to thousands of dollars. He entered the United States illegally, from Canada in 1938, but he linked up with the atom bomb, in Chicago, in 1943, when he accepted a package in a park, from a scientist who was employed in atom bomb development at a Chicago laboratory. “A Military Intelligence Officer was watching this scientist, when he trailed the Russian to a boarding-house, where the Russian registered as “Alfred Adamson.” That night the F. 8.1. entered Adamson’s room during his absence. They found the package and sent it to Washington. There it was found to contain highly confidential details of the atom bomb development. The scientist was immediately inducted into the Army, and he is, at present, stationed on an obscure South Pacific island. “Adamson’s numerous contacts include members of the Communist Party’s National Committee, also doctors, lawyers an electrical manufacturing executive, an employee of the Soviet Embassy; and Soviet ViceConsuls, and also the woman owner of a New York jewellery store, who was the intermediary for Adamson’s more secret contracts. CHASED BY G-MEN ' v “A year ago, Adamson, carrying a brief case, left the apartment of this jewellery store proprietor. He dashed into a waiting car, which G-men pursued. Adamson left the car without the brief case. A Soviet Vice-Consul soon afterwards, entered this car. He drove it to the Soviet Consulate, which he entered, carrying the brief case. An investigation showed this car was owned by the executive of a company engaged in the manufacturing of secret radar equipment. “Another time, Adamson, with the same executive, went to Chicago, where he discovered that he was being watched. The executive returned to New York. He telephoned to contacts and said: ‘The F. 8.1. spotted us in Chicago. We almost got away. Adamson is trying to make the west coast road, to board a Soviet ship. Adamson continued on his journey with the train swarming with G-men, who were changed at every stop. Some were disguised as conductors and brakemen, Adamson, on arriving at the Portland docks, where there were several Soviet ships tied up, saw more than one hundred G-men lined up near the gangplanks. Adamson, after making futile attempts to 'dude trailing Government cars, returned to New York. The F. 8.1. had notified the State Department that he was attempting to leave the country. They requested permission to arrest him for espionage. But he and his confederates still have not been arrested. The correspondent describes mm as “a small, gnome-like man, with deepset piercing eyes, and a furtive walk. He wears huge, horn-rimmed spect3The F. 8.1., the State Department, and the Russian Embassy have declined to comment on the matter.