AMERICAN SPY HUNT
FEDERAL GRAND JURY NAMES GERMAN OFFICIALS Alleged Wholesale Theft of Military and Other Secrets DIRECTING HEADS RESIDENT IN GERMANY By Telegraph—Press Association. —Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) IS£! NEW YORK, June 20. The spy hunt took an extraordinary turn when a Federal Grand Jury. named eighteen individuals, a majority of whom are highly-placed German officials, charging them with the wholesale theft of-military, aviation and industrial secrets. The Federal Prosecutor made a statement that the directing heads of this ring reside in Germany and are connected with the Government of Germany. They operated, he said, through agents residing in the United States and had agents among the crews of steamships, plying between the United States and Germany. The directing heads paid these agents, all of whom were of German extraction, for furnishing information regarding American national defence. Only four of those indicted are under arrest here. Thirteen are resident in Germany and cannot be extradited.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1938, Page 8
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158AMERICAN SPY HUNT Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1938, Page 8
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