U.S. HONEYCOMBED WITH SPIES

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 71, 16 December 1938, Page 11

U.S. HONEYCOMBED WITH SPIES

Grave Situation Revealed

GERMAN ACTIVITIES SPECIFIED

Two More Arrests Made

By | Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. '

An agent for the House Committee which is investigating unAmerican activities, after investigating spy activities in the United States of America with military and naval officials, testified today that the situation was so grave that it could not be overstated. “The United States of America will be in a precarious position if it does not take heed,” he said. He specifically mentioned German activities.

Congressman Dies subsequently observed that the information given to the committee indicated that the United States of America was honeycombed with spies.

Meanwhile the Federal Department of Justice is holding Mikhail Gorin, local manager of Intourist (the Soviet travel agency), and Hafis Salich, a Russian-born American, on charges of espionage. Gorin and Salich are charged with stealing information gathered by the United States of America on Japan’s military and naval strength and supplying it to the Soviet. Salich, as United States of America naval intelligence officer at San Pedro, had access to data on Japan which Gmen said was of the utmost value to Russia. He is alleged to have supplied this to Gorin, a former Soviet consular official at Cristobal. A Federal Court jury found Hans .Shackow, an employee of a shipping company, guilty of espionage. Sentence was deferred pending a motion for a retrial. Shackow is one of four Germans, including a woman, who were arrested on October 16 while photographing the Panama Canal defences. The trial of the others is pending.