TUESDAY. AUGUST 23. 960
U.S. Soldier Denounces
America in 'Ayviet Union
MOSCOW III) A Polish-born U.S. soldier who deserted his
military intelligence unit at Frankfurt three weeks ac) has de
nounced American policy and asked for asylum in the Soviet Union,
the government newspaper Izvestia announced yesterday.
The soldier is Vladimir Sloboda, 33,.a linguist and ‘2lerk reported
Icy a U.S. Army spokesman. to
have had "only very limited ac
cess to any security informa
tion..,
5 Storms Harass
%Wino, Travel
In Pacific Area
TOKYO UP)----Five great storms
lashed Formosa. Communist' Chi
na, Korea and vast stretches of
open sea today in one of the worst
Pacific typhoon seasons.
The blustery five—named Bess,
Carmen, Della, Elaine and Faye
—harassed shipping, travel and
everyday living in an area stretch
ing from the north-central Pacific
1,400 miles off Tokyo all the way
west to Shanghai, on the coast of
China.
Most violent of the five was
Elaine. a 92-mile per hour typhoon
centering 172 miles south-south
east of Formosa last night and
heading north-northeast. A 60-
ton fishing vessel sank in heavy
seas blown up off west Formosa
by Elaine Sunday but all 13 per
sons aboard were rescued.
Carmen, a 69-m.p.h. tropical
gale, battered her way up the Chi
nese coast yesterday and headed
for South Korea. She centered 116
miles northeast of Shanghai last
night.
Typhoon Bess. which sideswiped
Japan over the weekend, used her
75-m.p.h. winds to whip great
waves in the not-so-pacific ocean
far from any land. She centered
875 - miles east of Tokyo last night
and was moving due cast on a
course expected to put her 1.449
miles east of Tokyo tonight.
Tropical gale Della. with 52-
m.p.h. winds, centered 300 miles
southwest of Iwo Jima. heading
northwest.
Newborn Tropical Gale Faye
was spotted 586 miles south-south
east of U.S.-controlled Marcus Is
land. Still a comparative babe.
with center winds of only 40
m.p.h.. Faye was expected to cen
ter 506 miles south-southwest of
Marcus tonight.
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Dock today. at Pier 53
on Route 53 Bellefonte
He was described here as dep
uty chief of a section in the staff
of intelligence Group 513. He is
a specialist sth class, correspond
ing to sergeant.
Sloboda's application for asy
lum was published by Izvestia
and transmitted abroad by Radio
Moscow and the Soviet news
agency Tass.
His statement described Amer.
ican U 2 flights and smuggling
of intelligence agents through
West Berlin as parts of "inten
sified preparations for another
war."
"Most agents are recruited un
der great pressure with the use of
various . forms of blackmail,.
.threats and bribery," the state
ment said.
It declared Sloboda's service
with the intelligence unit con
vinces him "deceit and blackmail.
nrovocation and hypocrisy have
become the official policy of the
United States government."
The statement came on the
heels of the sentencing of U 2 pi
lot Francis Gary Poixtirs to 10
years' detention for esponage.
It said one purpose of U 2
filghfs over Soviet territory was
to collect. information for Group
513 maps of objectives for fu
ture bombing in the Soviet
Union, Poland. Czechoslovakia
and other countries.
Sloboda said he is a native of
the Lvov region Polish terri
tory attached to the Ukrainian
Republic in 1939 who enlisted.
in the U.S. Army at Bremen. Ger
many, as a displaced person in
1953. He underwent ,raining in
the military intelligence service
at Ft. Bragg. N.C.. and Ft.• Meade.
Md., and became a U.S. citizen in
1958. He then was Sent to Group
513 in Germany.
The U.S. Army's- Euroonn
headquarters at Heidelberg, bcr
many, had no comment en the
lzvestia. article.
Information given by the Army
Aug. 6 was reiterated: Sloboda
had only limited access to securi
ty information.
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11African Mail
LONDON Moscow radio
last night broadcast an' apreal by
Modido Keita, Premier of the for
mer French Sudan. for immediate
help from the United Nations to
keep order in the newly indepen
dent African Federation of Mali.
Leaders of Senegal Aate have an
nounced they have seceded from
the federation.
The broadcast said Kcita's ap
peal was cabled to President Se-
KOU Toure of Cuinea, the terri
tory that hacked out of the
French community despite Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle's bid to
keep France's former dependen
cies in a single grouping.
Keita's cable said ()IPA in the
absence of any Froic!) govern
ment agreement to provide troops
for maintaining order he demands
"the immediate calling of a meet
ing of the Security Conned in
New Ybrk and immediate
as: is
thuice from the U.N."
U.N, headquarters in New York
said no direct appeal hail been re
ceived last night from the Mali
Federation, but officials had been
told of the roundabout delivery
of Keita's message by way of
Guinea and Moscow radio,
The states of Seneal and
French Sudan formed the Mali
Federation in January 1959. The
federation gained itg independence
from France last June. It re
mained in the French community.
The split follows a power strag
gle between }<edit and his Sen
egalese rival, Mamadou Dia. DP
Gaulle has invited the two men
to Paris to discuss the dispute.
Only Dia has accpeted the invita
tion.
Moscow radio, in a dispatch
from Guinea. said 'Court , 1 - I.ld re
ceived this letter from Keita:
"The government of the Mali
Federation decided ti proclaim a
state of emergency to resist the
coup d'etat effected by the Sene
galese government, which serious
ly undermines public order and
international peace.
"The Mali government, in con
formity with the defense agree
ment concluded between the
French Republic and the Mali
Federation, has asked a represen
tative of the French government
to place at its disposal the French
troops stationed in Dakar in or
der to insure the mainvniance of
public order and make possible
the normal functioning of insti
tutions.
L. G. BALFOUR CO.
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Truman, Ike Deals
ith Reds Claimed
WASHINGTON 01 Newpa-1 meeting which was used by
per reports on still-secret statte State Department historians.
papers say they frirtllrr Bohlen was quoted as saying:
President Harry S. Truman al-;
lowed the Soviet Union to stall off.. "Stalin said that the Soviet " 11-
a Japanese peace offer it . o , ce ion had received a communication
wee k s b e f ore the f i rst a t.O m c ;lrom the Japan( se, and he handed
bomb wrecked Hiroshima. ofnote.
fromthe president a copy
from Sato Naota ke Sato. Japaii
: These reports say also That so_
vier dictator Joseph Stalin once ''sl' alith"<ad"r
to licisr~,t, w"
a
:message front the Emperor.
praised Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower as an "honest man' f or Stalin inquired of the President
turning over to the Soviets 135,000 ‘ vhether was " rill white to "'-
German soldiers who had tried to saver this. "t"linmtr;t/i" The
surrender to the Americans, ,Pfeident replied that he had no
respect far
These and other statements ap- th` good faith of the
pear in a series of articles being
published by the Minneapolis The Knebel-Bailey articles
Tribune and the Des Moines Reg- said the Potsdam documents
islet & T r ib une under the b yl i nes give no clue to the precise rea
of Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. son for the decision to stall on
Bailey of the Washington bureau. the Japanese peace effort, but
of the Cowles newspapers. indications are that the Allies'
The series of four articles is desire for unconditional sur
described as being based on render was the main obstacle.
hitherto undisclosed, official pa- The Kncbel-Bailet report said:
pets on the Potsdam Conference. "Mr. Bohlen's notes of the May
The Stale Department, which 2i conversation reveal that Stalin
„Drib;+steel the 'cu+pl„as.'+ni refusal
periodically publishes state doer of of historical interests, eon- s h
firmed its secrecy lid on the Pots- to turn over part of the depleted
Italian fleet to Russia with Gen.
darn papers yesterday, Press °Hi:
Eisenhower's actions.
cer Lincoln White said the docu
ments probably would be ready — lle said, for „sample.' the
for publication early next year.-Bohlen notes record, 'Gen. Eisen-
It was understood that Secre- bower as an honest man had e"l.'
tart of State Christian A. flerter'reeiV turned over to the Soviet
personally had ordered pohhc a_ command in Czechoslovakia some
lien of the papers withheld until 135.000 German troops who had
after the November elections, in tried to surrender to the American
an effort to keep them out of the A rrh Y'
political campaign. ” This was an example of fair
The Knebel-Bailey account and honest behavior.'"
said Charles E. Bohlen on March
28 of this year wrote an ampli-
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