ANTI-SPY DRAGNET IN NEW YORK
Large Haul By Police
(Received September 6, 10.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 5.
In one of the largest raids carried out on the east coast since Pearl Harbour, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested 142 men and women aliens in the New York city and suburban area. The prisoners include 116 Germans, 15 Japanese, and 11 Italians.
One of the Japanese had minutelydetailed maps of the Pacific coast, and also charts of the entire Pacific theatre of war.
The Government has rounded up a total of 1802 dangerous aliens since the beginning of the war in the campaign to disrupt organized aid to the enemy along the Atlantic seaboard.
In Havana the Cuban police today announced the arrest of Heinz Lulling, a 31-year-old German, who is described as one of the most important spies yet captured in America. Liming has confessed to widespread espionage activities, including the transmission, by radio and coded letters, of information concerning the arrival and departure of Allied and neutral ships. The police indicated that Lulling -would escape the firing squad by becoming a Government witness.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 6
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186ANTI-SPY DRAGNET IN NEW YORK Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 6
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