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516 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
Mr. Striplincx. Do you know whether or not he was ever contacted in Washington by Louise Bransten while he was in the State Department?
Mr. Russell. Yes. On January 3, 1944.
Mr. Stripijng. Can you tell the committee the nature of work or the place of employment of Page wliile he was in the State Department?
Mr. Russell. Yes. At one time he was assigned to the American Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay. During this employment he corresponded frequently with Herbert Biberman and John Howard Lawson, of the Hollywood movie colony. This person was referred to upon one occasion by a leading Connnunist in Mexico as being "one of our men," and this Communist in this connection said of Page, "We have one of our men right inside the American embassy and we get the real inside dope from there."
I could name the person who said this, if the committee considers it necessary.
Mr. Stripling. Mr. Chairman, Page was also attached to the cultural— he was the cultural attache at the embassy in Paris for a while.
Mr. Russell. He was also in New York with the cultural section of the State Dejoartment.
Mr. Stripling. Mr. Russell, during your investigation of Louise Bransten did you determine whether or not she was in. communication with various officials of the Soviet Government ?
Mr. Russell. Yes.
On April 25, 1945, Louise Bransten was contacted by Stepan Apresian, of the Soviet consulate. Apresian was attached to the Soviet consulate in San Francisco. She, Louise Bransten, was contacted by this individual in San Francisco at the Hotel Canterbury on April 25, 1945. The purpose of this meeting, which was arranged by a Mr. Khrameev, of the Soviet consulate, was to arrange for the distribution of 40,000 copies of a speech to be made by Molotov before the United Nations Conference at San Francisco.
On the 24th of April 1945 Bransten was requested to work on the translation of this speech at the Soviet consulate in San Francisco, Calif. Ten thousand copies of Molotov's speech were purchased by the International Workers Order, as a matter of information. The 40,000 copies of Molotov's speech were to be distributed after they had been printed by a particular lithographing and printing company in San Francisco.
Mr. Stripling. Mr. Russell.
Mr. Chairman, we prefer to give the name of the company in executive session.
The Chairman. Without objection, so ordered.
Mr. Sti?ipling. Can you tell the committee whether or not your investigation disclosed ^vhether or not Louise Bransten entertained any of the officials of the Soviet Government?
Mr. Russell. Yes.
On May 19, 1945, Dmitri Manuilsky, the Ukraine Communist leader, was the guest of honor at a dinner given by Louise Bransten in her home. Dimitri Manuilsky was a member of the three-man board which functioned as the Communist International during the late war. This was during the time that the Communist International had supposedly been dissolved. Other persons who attended the dinner given