INTRIGUE IN U.S.A.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1939, Page 8

INTRIGUE IN U.S.A.

ALLEGED COMMUNIST OPERATIONS ESPIONAGE & STRIKE PROMOTION. AIRCRAFT DRAUGHTSMAN ARRESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON. October 13. Maurice Malkin, a charter member cf the United States Communist Party, testified before the Dies Committee that the party has nuclei in the Brooklyn Naval Yard, one of the largest in the United States, which has been transmitting secret information to the Soviet for years, through an Ogpu agent located in New York, in the same way as information relating to industrial plants. Malkin testified that the Communist Party employed many such as “Lacklegs Diamond" to eliminate recalcitrant persons or groups blocking Communist infiltration. The party did its utmost to prompt strikes, particularly on the West Coast among the maritimeworkers. where it played a predominant role. / The Los Angeles correspondent of the United Press stated that Edward McDonough, a draughtsman at the Douglas Aircraft plant, was arrested by Federal Agents on a charge of stealing drawings of plans used in the construction of military aeroplanes. McDonough was gaoled in default of bail.

The Army Intelligence Service has summoned the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the case reported on October 7, in which reports of sabotage, which also involved the warship Arizona, were received by G-men.