ATOMIC BOMB SECRETS

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26122, 26 May 1950, Page 7

ATOMIC BOMB SECRETS

SPY RING MAY BE UNCOVERED DISCLOSURES BY KLAUS FUCHS LONDON. May 24. An atom bomb spy ring in America is expected to be smashed as a result of statements made by the British atom spy, Klaus Fuchs, states the “Evening Standard.” Fuchs, sewing mailbags at Wormwood Scrubs Prison, at the start of his 14 years’ sentence for espionage, is a disillusioned and bitter man. He has given no indication of his real feelings, but those in daily touch with him believe that he is repentant and anxious to tell all he knows. Fuchs has already talked for more than two hours to American G-men, Mr Hugh Clegg, the 49-year-old As-sistant-Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Mr Robert J. Lamphere. Both are in Britain at the invitation of the British Government. A senior British police officer was present while Fuchs was interrogated, but he remained out of hearing. . Before they interviewed Fuchs the two F. 8.1. men saw lhe governor of the prison (Major B. D. Grew) and gave an undertaking that they would strictly observe the British regulations governing the questioning of prisoners. A message from Washington states that Senator Edwin Johnson (Democrat. Colorado), a member of the Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, predicted to-day that there would be more atomic espionage arrests.

Senator Johnson’s prediction followed the arrest in Philadelphia last night of Harry Gold, a research chemist, on charges of relaying atomic secrets to Russia.