Hush-Hush Espionage Trials In Germany
Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. MUNICH, Feb. 16. Brigadier-General J ohn McKee, chairman of the Military Commission which today commences the trials of a numher of persons i'or espionage, said two of the five cases are so secret that the court would not make puhlic the names of the defendants or the verdicts even if executions were ordered, reports the Associated Press correspondent. Brigadier-General McKee added that United States Army intelligence insisted virtually on nnprecedented secrecy becanse the secnrity of the United States would he endangered if the evidence or names of the persons involved become known. He said the first and fifth cases would he in camera. The second involved three Germans and two Poles, the third a wohian Elfriede Zirlik and th§ fourtk ' eight persons.
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 February 1949, Page 5
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