Mrs. Vladimir Petrov Joins
Husband as Refugee from Reds
Soviets Accuse
Petrov of Theft,
Demand Return
CANBERRA, Australia, OTt —
The Soviet embassy accused its
fugitive third secretary, Vladimir
Petrov, of stealing “large sums”
of embassy funds by forgery to
day and demanded that Australia
hand him over as a criminal.
In a ncfte to the Australian gov
ernment, the embassy said Pet
rov’s story of a widespread So
viet spy plot in this country was
without foundation and the mass
of “espionage” documents he had
given Australian authorities might
be forgeries.
Petrov turned himself over to
the Australian government early
in April and was granted politi
cal asylum. Parliament authorized
a royal commission to investigate
his story of large-scale Soviet spy
ing and the large mass of data he
brought with him from the em
bassy, but Prime Minister Robert
G. Menzies said top security of
ficials were convinced his ac
count was authentic.
Two commonwealth security of
ficers also were questioning Pet
rov’s wife today in Darwin, where
she left a Europe - bound plane
yesterday morning to join her
husband in exile. Australian po
lice had t' disarm two Soviet dip
lomatic couriers who, with an em
bassy secretary, were taking her
bacx to Russia.
Mrs. Petrov, reportedly a cipher
clerk in the embassy* was being
held under tight security guard at
the Darwin government house.
Reporters standing outside the
garden said she spent long hours
on the veranda with two security
officials and a Russian interpreter
smoking, talking, laughing and
enjoying cool drinks.
PAN AMERICAN DC-6B SETS
SPEED RECORD FROM
ANNETTE I. TO SEATTLE
SEATTLE, CrP!—A Pan Ameri
can World Airways DC-6B flew
from Annette Island to Seattle in
1 hour, 57 minutes Tuesday for
a new commercial flight record,
airline officials reported here.
The regularly scheduled time is
2 hours, 45 minutes.
Pan American said the DC-6B
averaged 350 miles an hour, with
a top speed of 400 mph, at 20,000
feet. It was aided by a tailwind
of from 50 to 60 miles an hour.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
” DARWIN, Australia. UR—Blcftide
Mrs. Vladimir Petrov joined her
ex-diplomat husband as a refugee
from Soviet Communism Tuesday
after Australian police jerked
loaded pistols away from two
Russian escorts ushering her in
tears back to Moscow.
The 35-year-old woman’s last
minute switch to the free world
followed a fantastic tug of war in
which Australian police wrestled
wildly to disarm two of her Rus
sian guards as her Europe-bound
plane stopped here on the first
leg of its flight from Sydney. The
gun-toting Russians hed tried to
muscle local officials out of talk
ing to Mrs. Petrov.
Eight hours earlier some 1500
anti-Communists at Sydney had
fought with police in a vain ef
fort to prevent her from being
dragged aboard the B-O-A-C Con
stellation by the Soviet Embassy
second secretary and the two'
armed Russian diplomatic cour
iers convoying her home.
White Russians in the crowd
said they heard her screaming “I
do not want to go. Save me!”
Mrs. Petrov was said by Aus
tralian authorities to have been
heading back to Russia in the
belief her husband had been kid
naped and killed. She had told
reporters at an embassy news
conference last week she thought
he had been kidnaped.
She made her final decision to
s'ay afler a pre-arranged tele
phone call from Darwin for her
first talk with her 45-year-old
husband since he fled early this
month with stacks of Red espio
nage data from his post as third
secretary and MVD (seci'et police)
chief at the Soviet Embassy in
Cangerra.
The Russians at Darwin claimed
the action against the couriers
violated their diplomatic immuni
ty. But legal experts pointed out
Australian air travel laws forbid
passengers to cari’y firearms
aboard a plane. They said al
though a country cannot take
punitive action against diplomats
of another country, it can take
measui'es to prevent law viola
tions.
It was revealed at Canberra
that Mrs. Petrov was a cipher
clerk in the Soviet Embassy, and
handled the secret coded mes
sages to and from the Kremlin.
If she decides to follow her hus
band in revealing what she knows
about the inner workings of that
embassy, she may be as important
as he in helping to track down
Soviet espionage in Australia.
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FHA Builders Got
$65 Million Profits,
Hearing Reveals
WASHINGTON, III-1The gov
ernment’s revenue chief testified
Tuesday that builders of 1,149
FHA-insured apartment projects
reaped 65 million dollars in prof
its almost entirely from borrow
ing more than they spent.
T. Coleman Andrews presented
a statistical summary to a Senate
hearing conducted by Sen. Byrd
(D-Va).
Byrd said housing officials
guaranteed 25 million dollars in
loans on Glen Oaks Village, in
Queens County, New York, al
though the project cost only 20
million.
And Byrd declared he under
stood rents in the Glen Oaks pro
ject were “15, or 20 to 25 percent
higher” due to the fact that loans
to the project were in excess of
construction costs.
Andrews also said the Revenue
Service thought there was no
fraud, either civil or criminal, in
volved because the builders of the
Glen Oaks project had fully dis
closed their income in tax returns.
Byrd said he had been unable
to get an explanation of why this
was done, and called it a clear
evasion of a law that limited such
loans to a maximum of five mil
lion dollars.
Furthermore, tax officials have
hundreds of similar examples of
“unconscionable distribution of
profits” and “windfalls” under
federal housing programs, Byrd
declared.
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