Russian Spies on U.S. War Secrets
new YORK, September 30. According to a despatch to the Scripps-Howard newspapers from Washington, official records showed that a “minimum figure” of 89 important American military, industrial and scientific war secrets had been revealed to Russia through Communist spies. The despatch said the figure did not cover the losses known only to high Government officials or secrets stolen but not missed. Atom bomb information was said to be only a small part of the “take” by the spy network, which, the despatch said, originally sought radar secrets, information on new propellants and conventional explosives, then information on the atom bomb, proximity fuses and jet propulsion. Mr. John McDowell, acting-chair-man of the un-American Activities Committee of the House of Representatives, said that Russian agents
must have succeeded in getting at least 100 military secrets from the United States during the war.
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Grey River Argus, 2 October 1948, Page 3
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