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Communists. Wallace was accompanied on this trip by John Carter Vincent, an employee of the Far Zastern Division of the State Department, Owen Lattimore, and ' John Newbold Hazzard. Owen Lattimore was appointed Political Advisor to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in 1941 upon the recommendation of President Roosevelt. He is the Vice Chairman of the Maryland Civil Liberties Committee and on February 12, 1941, appeared on the same program with Frederick V. Field, Executive Secretary of the American Peace Mobilization at a rally held in Washington, D. C., sponsored by that group. It is to be noted that the American Peace Mobilization was one of the organizations designated as subversive by the Special War Policies Unit of the Department of Justice. At this meeting Field advocated that the United States aid China and cooperate with the policy of the Soviet Union by withdrawing all aid to England. It is to be noted that this rally was held prior to the German invasion of the USSR in dune, 1941. Lattimore has been closely associated with pro-Commnist and Soviet groups on several occasions. John Newbold Hazzard, presently in charge of the Soviet Section of the Foreign Economic Administration, is very friendly with the Soviet Military Attache in Washington, D. C. Hazzard resided in the Soviet Union from September, 1934, to 1937, allegedly studying Soviet law. While there, he was friendly with Herman Habicht, an unofficial employee of the Soviet Intourist Organization, whose wife was later one of the three individuals exchanged for the Soviet agent, Gaik B. Ovekimian. John White, who cooperated with the NKVD while residing in the Soviet Union, stated he was frequently questioned by them relative to Hazzard. Hazzard on one occasion advised Agents of the Bureau that while in Moscow he lived at the home of Professor E. EB. Krasmuskin, a psychiatrist for the NKVD. ACTION: The above data are for your information. | ~ 10 «~