NAZI ESPIONAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1940, Page 5

NAZI ESPIONAGE

ACTIVITIES IN UNITED STATES EXPOSED BY THE DIES COMMITTEE. PUBLICATION OF LENGTHY REPORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON. November 21. The Dies Committee has published a “White Paper,” reporting its investigation of German activities In the United States. The report includes testimony and documentary evidence designed to show: (1) That German diplomats “took a lively interest in spreading the work of the Trans-Ocean News Service, which was a propaganda agency, capable of engaging in espionage.” (2) That the German Government has undertaken a far-sighted policy of economic penetration of both North and South America.

(3) That a document seized in New York contained a plan for the organisation of German industry in America after the war, complete even to the names of the proposed officers: (4) Mr Manfred Zapp was a TransOcean representative in the United Statesand took a “deep interest in the manner in which the United States handled diplomatic relations with Japan. He not only advised representatives of Japan, but also indicated to Germany the steps being taken to aid German handling of diplomatic affairs.”

The 500-page report is the heavily documented testimony of scores of witnesses. Letters, telegrams and other exhibits were seized by the committee and its agents in raids, mostly in New York.