ALLEGED ESPIONAGE FOR SOVIET
AMERICAN ENGINEER ARRESTED
WASHINGTON, August 19. The Justice Department announced yesterday the arrest of a former United States Navy engineer on a charge of giving national defence secrets to Russia. It said that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had taken Morton Sobell, aged 33, a New York electrical engineer, into custody this morning.
Sobell was the eighth person arrested in a round-up of Americans accused of relaying atom bomb data and other secret information to a Soviet spy ring. The F. 8.1. said that Sobell fled from the United States in June to avoid arrest. He was arrested in Laredo, Texas u when he returned from Mexico.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26196, 21 August 1950, Page 7
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