NAVAL SECRETS SOLD TO RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 9

NAVAL SECRETS SOLD TO RUSSIA

Two Men Convicted In

America LOS ANGELES, March 11. Gorin and Salich were today convicted on three counts of espionage and conspiracy. Gorin’s wife was acquitted. Sentence was deferred pending an appeal. Salich was accused of selling naval secrets to Gorin for transmission to Moscow. He said that the information concerned Japanese activities and added that he had not conveyed anything damaging to the defence of the United States of America.

The Federal grand jury late yesterday ripped the cover off a purported Russian spy plot when it returned an espionage indictment against two men whose machinations allegedly Involved theft of highly confidential records from the United States Naval Intelligence Service, reported the "Sun Francisco Chronicle” on December The indictment named Mikhail Gorin, 34-year-oid Pacific Coast manager of Intourist, Inc., Soviet travel bureau, aud Halls Salich, 33, an employee of the Intelligence Service. Salich was accused of filching records from private naval files and turning them over to Gorin. Authorities said he received at least 1700 dollars over a period of 15 months from Gorin, a Russian subject. The grand jury considered the ease only brielly before voting the indictment, which charges each of the men will) three counts under the Espionage Act. The charges carry a possible maximum sentence of 00 years . iiifeprison,—2o years ou each count.