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\ it AANA wae, erupat dr RE MF: . source of his | inowledge regarding the captioned matter. 8. wy Bay, ane pet, ao ne) NY 65~16659 . « woe .. . . age . he : oF. B Ct ndemenet anf dnwt $ soc), . _ _ AG : ao Be WUEVERTHL Va =< A —— . 7 ty ph ‘ ‘ Ave . . so. sé =a | ae and A 7 ee or PAUL “CROUCH furnished certain ‘additional information, set forth below, in statement form to SA'S ALBERT RUNDBAKEN and CARL E. CLATBORNE at Philadelphia on April 6, 1954. CROUCH said that in order to explain his knowledge of GILBERT L. PARKS, HOWARD LEE, MALCOLM COTTON DOBBS and VIRGINIA FOSTER DURR, it was necessary for him to clarify some terms and to give the 5 CROUCH stated, "First of all is the definition of whatTis meant “=” by espionage. I use the tern of espionage, which was a phrase never used Pea exactly that language in the Communist Party, to mean the gathering from any ~ 7 confidential source of material to be sent to the Soviet Union or to be given others for transmission to the Soviet Union. While this term would include such things as theft of blueprints, codes, etc., such specific acts as those are obviously extremely rare compared to far more common gathering of informa- . tion on policy matters and personnel. Technically, perhaps, it Should ‘be: a! ; grouped under the heading of intelligence and espionage Work ' 4 7 as nn ran va Le a RE CEC Ty tae ar “vy first detailed acquaintance with the entire, field of - Td ta eg Rp Soviet and Communist espionage and the interrelationships with the Soviet“ °°: 7° Government, the GPU (now the NVD), the Communist International, and affiliated Communist Parties was obtained while I was in thé Soviet Union in January, February, March and “pril of 1928. During that time, I was given directives by general staff officers of the Red Army, held conferences with high officials of the GPU, participated in the highest level meetings of the Commmist Inter- . national, served .on commissions - especially one commission that dealt with aa aa the entire field of international military espionage in connection with ~: a ae -infiltratioff of the Armed Forces - and studied documents on the subject ‘of * Se eM intelligence and espionage techniques at the Frunze Military Academy." CROUCH said that he had previously furnished information regarding the foregoing, including the use of codes and transmission techniques, to this Bureau and other intelligence agencies in 1950. While I was head of the Commmist Party's National Department for Work in the Armed Forces from October 1927 until March 1930 one of the chief purposes in sending people into the Army, the Navy, the National “uard and the ROTC was to place trusted Communists where eventually they would be able to obtain increasing amounts of highly confidential material for the Communist movement and the Soviet Government. The material obtained while 7 as head of this department did not include, as I recall, anything that might properly be listed as classified or highly secret naterial; however, through the Communists sent into the Armed Forces, I did obtain a considerable , amount of material on composition of the Army, grievances, reactions of ae ; servicemen to various types of propaganda to which they were subjected,’ and ~ on, eG . . os : . ro a) +t . et . oe é eee we,