Columbia U. Instructor Charged With Perjury In Atom Spy Case By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Mar. 15.—William Perl, 32-year-old Columbia Uni versity physics instructor, was ar rested by the FBI last night on perjury charges. A Federal grand jury, in an in dictment returned Tuesday but not made public pending his ar rest, accused him of lying about his relationship with alleged atomic espionage. A spokesman at the office of United States District Attorney Irving Saypol described Perl as “one of the two top scientists in the field of aerodynamics.” Mr. Saypol refused to discuss the case. He said he would “defer any comment” until Perl’s arraign ment* in Federal Court today. Under Investigation for Months. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said Perl had been under investi gation since shortly after the ar rest of Harry Gold in May, 1950. The indictment charged Perl with four counts of perjury in con nection with testimony he gave on August 18 and September 11, 1950, in which he denied acquaint ance with Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell, on trial in New York on espionage charges. Perl also denied knowing other indi viduals who figured in the trial, the Justice Department said. A spokesman in the New- York prosecutor’s office said the indict ment also accused Perl of lying about his “association and friend ship * • • with Helen Elitcher, wife of Max Elitcher, the first Government witness, and with Anne and Michael Sidorovich, who have been mentioned in the case of Rosenberg.” Changed Name in 1945. The spokesman added that Perl "is supposed to have gone to school with Sobell, Rosenberg and Elitch er. He was a roommate . of Sobell’s in Washington in 1940.” Perl was bom in 1918 in New York under the name of Mutter perl, and changed his name by court order in 1945, the FBI said. The FBI said Perl’s father was a native of Russia and his mother a native of Poland. They are naturalized American citizens. The department announcement said Perl attended high school in the Bronx, New York, and received a bachelor’s degree .in electrical engineering at City College of New York in 1938. At CCNY he was a classmate of Rosenberg and So bell, Mr. Hoover said. Joined Columbia Last Year. Mr. Hoover added that from 1939 to 1943 Perl was employed by the National Advisory Commit tee for Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va„ and during 1944-45 he worked for NACA at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland. After a brief leave of absence, Perl was re-employed by NACA as an aeronautical research sci entist at Cleveland where he had access to the latest developments in the field of areonautics, and jet propulsion. The FBI said he re signed on September 1, 1950, to become an instructor at Columbia University. Perl lives with his wife in New York. 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He faces loss of his British citizen ship. Antonin Raidl, 58, glass and bottle merchant, was accused yes terday of hiding the fact that he earned the equivalent of $98 a month for funelling intelligence material to Prague. Raidl, who was bom in Bo hemia when it was under Aus trian rule, was accused before a “deprivation of nationality com mittee” in court by Attorney Gen eral Sir Hartley Shawcross. Tuesday the same committee accused another former Czech alien, Carl Strauss, of earning the equivalent of $125 a month for performing similar services. Mrs. Greenglass Says Reds Paid Rosenberg for Spy Work By th« Associated I rest NEW YORK, Mar. 15.—Mrs. Ruth Greenglass testified at the atom spy trial yesterday that her accused brother-in-law, Julius Rosenberg, told her he was get ting money from the Russians. The witness said both Rosen berg and his wife Ethel plotted to deliver atom bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. The Rosenbergs and Morton Sobell, a radar expert, are charged with conspiring to spy for Russia during wartime—an offense car rying a possible death penalty. Mrs. Greenglass related in Fed eral Court the part she and her husband David played in the al leged atom spy conspiracy. Awaiting Sentence. Greenglass, a former Army ser geant, has confessed taking atom secrets from the Los Alamos (N. Mex.) atom bomb project and giving them to a Red spy ring. He is awaiting sentence. Mrs. Greenglass testified the Rosenbergs first proposed that her husband, Mrs. Rosenberg’s broth November, 1944—just before she left to visit him at Los Alamos. When she got there she said “I told my husband it was wrong —that we shouldn’t be the de ciding authority” on supplying the information to Russia. When Judge Irving R. Kaufman inquired, “did you ever ask him (Rosenberg) where the money was coming from?” Mrs. Greenglass replied: "He said from his friends. . . . in another conversation later he said the Russians." While they were visiting New York in September, 1945, Mrs. Greenglass testified, Rosenberg told her husband he wanted the information he had immediately. Opposed Spy Role. She said after the meeting she told her husband she did not want er, turn atom spy for Russia in him to give the information to Rosenberg. "The bomb had already been dropped on Hiroshima,” she said, “and I realized what it was and didn’t think it should be passed | in this Trying World ^ For o Fresher Outlook —AP Wlrephoto. MRS. RUTH GREENGLASS. on to the Russians. But David in sisted on going tnrough with it.” Under cross examination Mrs. Greenglass declared: ‘‘I felt we had taken something into our hands that we weren’t equipped to handle, something be yond our knowledge to under stand. 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