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...Hiss-Chambers case. Previously, two members of the Washington Communist ring, Nathaniel Weyl and Julian Wadleigh, had corroborated portions of Chambers' accounts of Communist underground activity. Last week, after receiving a subpoena from McCarthy to appear at the Albany hearing, a 44-year-old draftsman named Felix A. Inslerman became-the third...
...Central Park. In 1949 Chambers led the FBI to the block in which he thought Felix had lived. From records, the FBI found that a Felix Inslerman had lived in one of the block's houses, had moved to Schenectady, N.Y. to work as an engineer on a secret guided-missile project for General Electric. In 1946 Inslerman, in a way never publicly explained, became one of the few civilians who attended the atomic tests at Bikini. Called to testify before a grand jury and in the second Hiss trial, Inslerman confessed nothing, pleaded the Fifth Amendment...
...stand last week, Felix Inslerman said he had never actually carried a Communist card, but he recited the events which led him from a 1934 meeting in New York's Central Park with an Estonian named "Bill" to his dealings with Chambers. Bill paid him in cash, Felix said, for various services to the party, arranged for his trip to Moscow and introduced...
...Inslerman then produced a remarkable document. It was a copy, he said, of part of a letter he received from a man, name unknown, on a Washington street corner in 1938. He was to deliver the letter, which was written by "Bob" after his break with the party, to one "Jake," Inslerman's New York contact. Felix, in characteristic underground fashion, copied the letter before delivering it. He had lost part of his notes. What remained was garbled by wear and tear, and much of it was in underground jargon. It read...
Death Was There. Inslerman, recalling his horror upon reading the letter, said: "Death was mentioned there. Bob was afraid of his life and the lives of his fam ily." When he delivered it to Jake, Inslerman testified, he asked some questions about it. Dissatisfied with the answers, Inslerman broke with Communism, but he waited 15 years to tell about...