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mmU.S. Ousts Threeabout the i various deciipartmentThe charges135-page repoiDiplomatsFor 'Espionage'WASHINGTON OK—This country’s relations with Russia took ilii-a sinister new turn today followf^jing the expulsion of three Soviet• .j diplomats for “espionage and im-* I proper activities” and the retaliation ouster of two U.S. officials in Moscow.Authorities reported that the evidence of spying was “conclusive .. . , we • got the goods on them and out they went.”The State Department disclosed the ouster moves late yesterday at an unusual holiday news conference.the1SSO-stem‘VicearearingCityitest lilar ond, ities an-■s to erv-funct Judici headed by Rep mg (R) N. Y. ered seven cas fore the inqui1953. •Rep. Byron rado, one of I on the five-r filed a disseni of the seven that the critilt;based on u*guessing” by i ment.CLARK, Wl prominently turned down a tify oh the g should be kepcontroversy, statement. Thlt; the statement questions.The report * ee “found noi*THE. DEPARTMENT «*ld Ru«- jjjjltt JSrini?sia on Saturday demanded the 5°™* tment ■immediate departure’ - of two * +1U.S. embassy officials in Moscow trofor Allegedly carrying on “espion- -plated suae age work/ They are Lt. Col. repeatedHoward L, Felchlin, New York, assistant military attache, and Maj. Walter' McKinney, Santa Cruz, Calif., assistant air attache.The United States flatly denied the. charges in a diplomatic-note Sunday andj in its announcement yesterday, the. State Department charged that the action was merely “in retaliation” for, the earlier expulsion of the three Soviet diplomats.. -It then reported for the first time that Cmdr. Igor A. Amosov, assistant naval attache at .the Soviet embassy here, was expelled Feb. 8; Alexander P. Kovlyov, secretary of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations, was ousted c, .Feb. 10. and Lt. Col. Leonid Sita «Pivnev, assistant-air attache here,! 'mony of his ordinates that for which th« cized were tr to him.”;THE IfUBC'deeply regn .‘‘chose to wit tion” -and adi ferehce -remai sponsible: for tions the subo most worthyIn other selt;1. Cleared tment of charg block a grand of Communist: tidns, and tlaleft for Moscow June 6. All were declared personally unacceptable because of their “espionage” activities.the situation.2, Dismissed alleged agr New York CSev! THE' DEPARTMENT .aid It I™* the Justacock,lersk M* 1 J S ■ ■■ r~----- ------ -----jmeihad .kept the expulsions secret ithsj until yesterday in the vain , hope eenithe Kremlin would not retaliate tion! against Americans in Moscow, es, ; The State Department would rta-'not guess why Felchlin and Me-jsh- Kinney were picked as the scape-ove goats for the Russians. But it was blie; recalled that the Soviet newspaper Trud on March 25 called for their expulsion along with Maj. Martin J. Manhoff, Bothell,Wash., and Sgt, Eugene Williams,Fresno, Calif. -* .Trud published a letter by G.Kharin, described as chief of train No. 4 of the Moseow-Vladi-vostok run. In it, he.charged that the four Americans had commit- _ -ted espionage whilfe on a train at Nashville, trip to Siberia. : their pressurM. K. Belousov, described as ajtwo mdictmei guard on international car No.,distortion oi t 1023, was said to have watched!process.:iJn the Americans looking out of the; »• that sai iralt;r train windows and-making notes,pan rrancisci ■Ses I “particularly when the train ap*jstructiomst Um-ible•it.iclyraterailinlastiere[ay-klinhold off FBIlice brutality said the agree: cepted as ton.3. Chargedindictments i bond dealer F the Justice clear instance resulting fron voritism.” Thlt; and ex-Assist era! T. Lax “weak spots.4. Declared echelons in -Ved reoeatediy so-called “rutj proached various stations.” After the I they left compartments No. 3 atid to!No. 4 at Khabarovsk, the guard in-'was said to have found a ques-/ei'Jtionnaire listing main towns the bus attaches were to check.-OFFICIALS SAID this old unofficial charge was a convenientif not a factual way of getting rid of two Americans in exchange for three Russians.The last Russian to be. excelled from this country was Yuri V. Movikov, second secretary of the embassy here who was ordered out in January, 1953, after being linked with, a spy ring, *George F. Kerman, former U-S.ambassador to Moscow, was or-• - “ *the i a Eu-oir-irda JS, attorney, 1 ment itself, 3 eral officials i out comtptjot firials in the .6, Charged Attorney Ger commitment7 prosecution ai physician, D “was rank of his office.” 7. Asserted the U. S. hare inadeau*ministered.” The Teport case of - Bert dence of 'the. _ jective and i
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