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...possibility of an investigation into Communist plans for sabotage of U.S. industry. ¶ The House Armed Services Committee is preparing a report on the death of OSS's Major William Holohan in Italy (TIME, Aug. 27). ¶ A special House committee will soon hold open hearings on the Katyn Forest massacre (TIME, Nov. 26). ¶ A Senate Subcommittee on the District of Columbia will look into crime in the nation's capital. ¶ A Senate Subcommittee on the Post Office & Civil Service will study the government's manpower situation, probing for wasteful use of personnel...
During the postwar period of Soviet-Western cordiality, the Russian version became accepted as true. The Katyn Forest tragedy was all but forgotten-except by the Poles. But a number of U.S. Congressmen, urged on by their Polish-American constituents and a committee headed by former...
...Ambassador to Poland Arthur Bliss Lane, persistently urged a reinvestigation of Katyn. This fall, the Rules Committee appointed a special investigating committee with Democrat Raymond Madden of Indiana as chairman, got the House to authorize $20,000 for expenses...
...Missing Report. One of the first things they investigated was a report made by Lieut. Colonel John H. Van Vliet Jr. As a wartime prisoner in Germany, West Pointer Van Vliet had been one of four Allied officers forced by the Germans to go under guard to Katyn. When he was liberated in 1945, Van Vliet promptly made a report to Major General Clayton Bissell, chief of War Department Intelligence in Washington. Bissell had him dictate a full account of the trip, marked it "Top Secret," and swore him to silence. Then, somehow, the Top Secret report disappeared. Bissell said...
...Russians were indeed responsible for the Katyn massacre as such preliminary findings indicated it would be clear evidence that the Kremlin had planned the extirpation of Polish army leadership far in advance (some 11,000 other Polish officers had simply disappeared without trace in Russia). The Kremlin's rule in Poland today is maintained through the Communist party and through Red Army Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, who is Poland's Defense Minister. Russian control is greatly facilitated by the fact that the major part of Poland's officer corps is either dead or in exile...