SPY RING UNCOVERED
Working Through Americas (Received January 24. 7.30 pm.) NEW YORK, January 23. The Buenos Aires correspondent of the “New York Times” says that the arrest of 38 spies followed information contained in three United States memoranda sent to Argentina proving the existence in' Argentina of a vast spy Ting obeying the instructions of the German High Command through the medium of the German Embassy in Buenos Aires.
The memoranda revealed that the spy ring operated throughout both continents of America, including the United States. The memoranda supplied the texts of many messages exchanged . between Buenos Aires and Berlin which were intercepted in the United States showing that the Nazi Embassy in Buenos Aires was the headquarters for Axis espionage and sabotage. It transmitted to Berlin information regarding the movements of Allied merchantmen, warships, air routes, and transports to Africa, and also secret production data.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 102, 25 January 1943, Page 4
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147SPY RING UNCOVERED Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 102, 25 January 1943, Page 4
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