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.Boland, the Irishrebel.A vigorous campaign against Aleksandr Kolchak in Siberia had been organized byMartens.The report concludes:[Martens'] organization is a powerful weapon for supporting the Bolshevikcause in the United States and.he is in close touch with the promoters ofpolitical unrest throughout the whole American continent.The Scotland Yard list of personnel employed by the Soviet Bureau in New York coincidesquite closely with a similar list in the Lusk Committee files in Albany, New York, whichare today open for public inspection.10 There is one essential difference between the twolists: the British analysis included the name "Julius Hammer" whereas Hammer was omittedfrom the Lusk Committee report.11 The British report characterizes Julius Hammer asfollows:In Julius Hammer, Martens has a real Bolshevik and ardent Left Wingadherent, who came not long ago from Russia.He was one of the organizers ofthe Left Wing movement in New York, and speaks at meetings on the sameplatform with such Left Wing leaders as Reed, Hourwich, Lore and Larkin.There also exists other evidence of Hammer's work in behalf of the Soviets.A letter fromNational City Bank, New York, to the U.S.Treasury Department stated that documentsreceived by the bank from Martens were "witnessed by a Dr.Julius Hammer for the ActingDirector of the Financial Department" of the Soviet Bureau.12The Hammer family has had close ties with Russia and the Soviet regime from 1917 to thepresent.Armand Hammer is today able to acquire the most lucrative of Soviet contracts.Jacob, grandfather of Armand Hammer, and Julius were born in Russia.Armand, Harry,and Victor, sons of Julius, were born in the United States and are U.S.citizens.Victor was awell-known artist; his son also named Armand and granddaughter are Soviet citizensand reside in the Soviet Union.Armand Hammer is chairman of Occidental PetroleumCorporation and has a son, Julian, who is director of advertising and publications for Occidental Petroleum.Julius Hammer was a prominent member and financier of the left wing of the SocialistParty.At its 1919 convention Hammer served with Bertram D.Wolfe and Benjamin Gitlowon the steering committee that gave birth to the Communist Party of the U.S.In 1920 Julius Hammer was given a sentence of three-and-one-half to fifteen years in SingSing for criminal abortion.Lenin suggested with justification that Julius was"imprisoned on the charge of practicing illegal abortions but in fact because ofcommunism."13 Other U.S.Communist Party members were sentenced to jail for seditionor deported to the Soviet Union.Soviet representatives in the United States made strenuousbut unsuccessful efforts to have Julius and his fellow party members released.Another prominent member of the Soviet Bureau was the assistant secretary, KennethDurant, a former aide to Colonel House.In 1920 Durant was identified as a Soviet courier.Appendix 3 reproduces a letter to Kenneth Durant that was seized by the U.S.Departmentof Justice in 1920 and that describes Durant's close relationship with the Soviet hierarchy.Itwas inserted into the record of a House committee's hearings in 1920, with the followingcommentary:MR.NEWTON: It is a mailer of interest to this committee to know what wasthe nature of that letter, and I have a copy of the letter that I Want inserted inthe record in connection with the witness' testimony.MR.Mason: That letterhas never been shown to the witness.He said that he never saw the letter, andhad asked to see it, and that the department had refused to show it to him.Wewould not put any witness on the stand and ask him to testify to a letter withoutseeing it.MR.NEWTON: The witness testified that he has such a letter, and he testifiedthat they found it in his coat in the trunk, I believe.That letter was addressed toa Mr.Kenneth Durant, and that letter had within it another envelope which waslikewise sealed.They were opened by the Government officials and aphotostatic copy made.The letter, I may say, is signed by a man by the name of"Bill." It refers specifically to soviet moneys on deposit in Christiania, Norway,a portion of which they waist turned over here to officials of the sovietgovernment in this country [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Boland, the Irishrebel.A vigorous campaign against Aleksandr Kolchak in Siberia had been organized byMartens.The report concludes:[Martens'] organization is a powerful weapon for supporting the Bolshevikcause in the United States and.he is in close touch with the promoters ofpolitical unrest throughout the whole American continent.The Scotland Yard list of personnel employed by the Soviet Bureau in New York coincidesquite closely with a similar list in the Lusk Committee files in Albany, New York, whichare today open for public inspection.10 There is one essential difference between the twolists: the British analysis included the name "Julius Hammer" whereas Hammer was omittedfrom the Lusk Committee report.11 The British report characterizes Julius Hammer asfollows:In Julius Hammer, Martens has a real Bolshevik and ardent Left Wingadherent, who came not long ago from Russia.He was one of the organizers ofthe Left Wing movement in New York, and speaks at meetings on the sameplatform with such Left Wing leaders as Reed, Hourwich, Lore and Larkin.There also exists other evidence of Hammer's work in behalf of the Soviets.A letter fromNational City Bank, New York, to the U.S.Treasury Department stated that documentsreceived by the bank from Martens were "witnessed by a Dr.Julius Hammer for the ActingDirector of the Financial Department" of the Soviet Bureau.12The Hammer family has had close ties with Russia and the Soviet regime from 1917 to thepresent.Armand Hammer is today able to acquire the most lucrative of Soviet contracts.Jacob, grandfather of Armand Hammer, and Julius were born in Russia.Armand, Harry,and Victor, sons of Julius, were born in the United States and are U.S.citizens.Victor was awell-known artist; his son also named Armand and granddaughter are Soviet citizensand reside in the Soviet Union.Armand Hammer is chairman of Occidental PetroleumCorporation and has a son, Julian, who is director of advertising and publications for Occidental Petroleum.Julius Hammer was a prominent member and financier of the left wing of the SocialistParty.At its 1919 convention Hammer served with Bertram D.Wolfe and Benjamin Gitlowon the steering committee that gave birth to the Communist Party of the U.S.In 1920 Julius Hammer was given a sentence of three-and-one-half to fifteen years in SingSing for criminal abortion.Lenin suggested with justification that Julius was"imprisoned on the charge of practicing illegal abortions but in fact because ofcommunism."13 Other U.S.Communist Party members were sentenced to jail for seditionor deported to the Soviet Union.Soviet representatives in the United States made strenuousbut unsuccessful efforts to have Julius and his fellow party members released.Another prominent member of the Soviet Bureau was the assistant secretary, KennethDurant, a former aide to Colonel House.In 1920 Durant was identified as a Soviet courier.Appendix 3 reproduces a letter to Kenneth Durant that was seized by the U.S.Departmentof Justice in 1920 and that describes Durant's close relationship with the Soviet hierarchy.Itwas inserted into the record of a House committee's hearings in 1920, with the followingcommentary:MR.NEWTON: It is a mailer of interest to this committee to know what wasthe nature of that letter, and I have a copy of the letter that I Want inserted inthe record in connection with the witness' testimony.MR.Mason: That letterhas never been shown to the witness.He said that he never saw the letter, andhad asked to see it, and that the department had refused to show it to him.Wewould not put any witness on the stand and ask him to testify to a letter withoutseeing it.MR.NEWTON: The witness testified that he has such a letter, and he testifiedthat they found it in his coat in the trunk, I believe.That letter was addressed toa Mr.Kenneth Durant, and that letter had within it another envelope which waslikewise sealed.They were opened by the Government officials and aphotostatic copy made.The letter, I may say, is signed by a man by the name of"Bill." It refers specifically to soviet moneys on deposit in Christiania, Norway,a portion of which they waist turned over here to officials of the sovietgovernment in this country [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]