AMERICAN MISSING IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
ALLEGED ASSOCIATE OF LASZLO RAJK i\/r kt i w PRAGUE. October 12. Mr Noel H. Fields, an American, who was named as a master spy in the Rajk trial in Budapest, has disappeared since arriving in Czechoslovakia. This was stated by an American Embassy spokesman to-day. He said that the Embassy was preparing to make inquiries from the Czechoslovak Government. Mr Fields is believed to have come to Czechoslovakia from Switzerland in May and gone on to Bratislava. Since then all trace of pirn had apparently been lost, the official said. During his trial on charges of treason and espionage, Laszlo Rajk, the former Hungarian Foregin Minister, said that Mr Fields had met him in France in 1941. He called Mr Fields "the head of the American intelligence for Central and Eastern Europe.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25934, 14 October 1949, Page 7
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