Probers Release Story of Male Sex Parties, Key West Citizen (Article, May 1952)
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Probers Release Story Of Male Sex Parties Run By Red Envoy Here To Gain Information
By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate investigators made public today a sensational story of all-male sex parties run by a Communist envoy to the United States for the purpose of extracting information from effeminate American guests.
The diplomat was named as Teo H. Florin, former first secretary of the Czechoslovakian embassy here in testimony given to the Senate's internal security subcommittee by Joseph Molnar, a young Czech writer who said he observed the carryings-on for the FBI.
Molnar and two other witnesses testified that subversive activities in this country are directed by Iron Curtain country representatives operating under diplomatic immunity.
Chairman McCarran (D.-Nev.) of the internal security group called this a "shocking and alarming" situation and demanded in a statement that the State and Justice Departments invoke the McCarran anti-Subversives Act to rid the nation of "these treacherous aliens."
Molnar and the other witnesses--Czech-born Pavlina Svoboda, former [employee] of the Czech embassy, and Matthew Cvetic, Pittsburgh, longtime undercover agent for the FBI in Communist organizations--gave their testimony at various times since last July but it was kept secret until today.
Molnar said he was a guest of Florin--who later was ordered to leave the United States--at the Czech diplomat's apartment on 20th Street, Washington, during several parties.
"Sometimes," the witness went on, "he had invited several men whose conduct convinced me of their homosexuality.
"At none of these parties were there any female guests present. The men embraced each other, kissed each other."
Liquor flowed freely. Molnar said, and his diplomat host would turn the conversation to politics "when the men became sufficiently intoxicated."
Then, instead of going to sleep, the envoy would write a detailed report "which he delivered the first thing in the morning to the proper authorities at the embassy." Molnar added.
