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CHARGES AGAINST SPY INVESTIGATOR. I DECISION OF FEDERAL COURT. NEW YORK, July 21. Charges against Mr Leon G. Turrou, ace U.S. Government investigator, who was responsible for the indictment of 18 prominent Nazis on espionage charges last month, were dismissed by the Federal Court today. The charges arose out of 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 persons indicted. In this affidavit the charge was made that Mr Turrou, 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 stated that Turrou allowed Griebl to escape in order to deprive Hoffman of a witness who would have testified in her favour. The court stated that the charges were “so fantastic that no sensible person would believe them.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1938, Page 5
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178FOUND FANTASTIC Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1938, Page 5
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