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Material which came into his possession as a result of his official capacity allegedly was made available through intermediaries to Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, his wife, Helen Witte Silvermaster, and William Ludwig Ullmann. Both Silvermaster and Ullmann are employees of the United States Treasury Department, reportedly directly under the supervision of White.
The information and documents originating in the Treasury Department were either passed on in substance or photographed by Ullmann in a well-equipped laboratory in the basement of the Silvermaster home. Following this step, the material was taken to New York City by courier and made available to Jacob M. Golos until the time of his death on Nov. 27, 1943.
Golos, a known Soviet agent, delivered this material to an individual, tentatively identified as Gaik Ovakimian.
Ovakimian, you will recall, was arrested some years ago as an unregistered agent of the Soviet government and, subsequently, by special arrangements with the Department of State, was permitted to return to the U.S.S.R.
After the departure of Gaik Ovakimian, Golos delivered his material to an individual who has been tentatively identified (here a name is deleted for security purposes).
Subsequent to the death of Golos, the courier handling material received from the Silvermasters and Ullmann delivered it through an unidentified individual to Anatoli Borisovich Gromov,who, until Dec. 7, 1945, was assigned as first secretary of the Soviet embassy, Washington, D.C., when he returned to the U.S.S.R.
Gromov had previously been under suspicion as the successor to Vassili Zubilin, reported head of the NKVD in North America, who returned to Moscow in the late summer of 1944.
This whole network has been under intensive investigation since November 1945, and it is the result of these efforts that I am now able to make available to you . . .
/S/ J. Edgar Hoover.
[ Brownell then gave the committee a number of facts from the report, in addition to those in the letter of transmittal.]
It was also reported that there was in existence another parallel of Soviet Intelligence operating within the United States Government and headed by Victor Perlo. The information gathered from the Perlo group was channeled through Jacob M. Golos and on to the Soviet diplomatic establishment in the same manner as outlined for the operation of the Silvermaster group.
Because of the relationships existing between Golos and the Perlo group, Harold Glasser appeared in the picture. Glasser was rather closely associated with White and was able to supply general information concerning the activities of the United States Treasury Department, particularly where they concerned proposed loans to foreign countries . . .
Proof of the Pudding
It is interesting to note how accurate this information was that the FBI supplied at that time. Following is a list of White's close associates referred to in the FBI reports who were members of the espionage ring who have claimed their privilege not to answer questions on the grounds that it would incriminate them: Silvermaster, Perlo, Glasser, Coe, Ullmann,