The Archive · 1939

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"Washington, Oct. 12.

Senator Bennett Champ Clark, De-yesterda: attacked Assistant mocratic isolationist a Musa, Secretary of War, Mr. Louis John-n that the man-"United States Army be Washington; Oct. 11.

Sensational revelations' were made by General Walter Krivitsky, who said he was a former officer in the Soviet military intelligence service, in testifying today before the Dies Committee investigating un-Amer!~ can activities in the United States.

Among other things he alleged that nine leaders of the Communist Party in Germany, Poland and Hungary had been recalled to Mos~ cow and shot even though they were not Russian citizens.

The slight, 40-year old, witness, who said he was born ' "Samuel Ginsberg" but changed his name to Krivitsky under the Soviet regime, told the Committee that some of those shot were former members of the German Reichstag and German citizens, Whispering answers to Mr. Boris Shub, his interpreter,—General Krivitsky asserted that the "most important Hungarian Communist Party leader" shot in this way was Bela Kun, "He was arrested in May, 1937 and shot the same year."

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