U.S.A. SPY HUNT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1938, Page 7

U.S.A. SPY HUNT

CHARGES MADE AGAINST ACE DETECTIVE ALLEGED CONNIVANCE IN ESCAPE OF INDICTED MEN TALK OF “MONETARY INTEREST” By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. NEW YORK, June 27. The “New York Times” gives prominence today to an affidavit submitted to the Federal Court by George Dix, attorney for Joanna Hoffman, formerly a hairdresser on the German liner Europa and one of the 18 alleged Nazi spys indicted recently by a Feredal grand jury in the great U.S. spy hunt. In this affidavit Mr Dix makes the charge that Mr Leon G. Turrou, the ace Government investigator who resigned the day after the indictment to write articles for the newspapers, permitted Dr Ignatz Griebl (former Nazi leader in the U.S., and another of those indicted) to escape to Germany aboard the Bremen because Turrou “had a monetary interest in allowing Griebl to depart.” The affidavit also states that Turrou allowed Griebl to escape in order to deprive Hoffman of a witness who would have testified in her favour. The judge ordered the United States attorney to show cause tomorrow why the American Consul-General at Bremerhaven, Bremen or Berlin should not be empowered to examine Griebl and Schulter (political officer of the liner Bremen, and also indicted) on oath and obtain the desired testimony.