NEW YORK POLICE

Grey River Argus, 21 May 1947, Page 3

NEW YORK POLICE

WHITE ANTING COUP

IN THE COMMUNIST PARTY

(Rec. 9.50). NEW YORK, May 19. The New York World Telegram, ii a copyright story, says: During the war, the New York Police Depart ment planted 28 detectives and police, women in the Communist Party o. America. Their under-cover operation; began in 1939. That was when Russia was on friendly terms with Ger many. The police made no arrests but they aimed at learning the inside workings and the plans of the Com munist Party, and of keeping tracl of its leaders and its members. “Under-cover men, who worked a: the Communist Party headquarters wrote for the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker. These men alsc

became Communist branch organisers. nThey also represented the Communist e Party at its conventions, and they t-even led Communist rallies. One de-3-tective won such a high degree oi htrust in the Communist Party that it is sent him, as a courier, to Portugal. 5-There he delivered a secret message ?-to the International. Comintern agent s, in Lisbon. e “Towards the end of this ‘sabotage i-squad’s’ existence, the Communists k discovered the police background of most of the under-cover operators, it and the Communists expelled them s.from the Party. How the Party bei', came aware of the police operations ois still a mystery’’.