AXIS ESPIONAGE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 124, 21 February 1944, Page 4

AXIS ESPIONAGE

Report By Argentine Government DATA SENT TO BERLIN (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received February 20,10.30 p.m.) BUENOS AIRES, February 20. The Argentine Government in the first of three reports on Axis espionage alleged that Germany used Argentina as a base for a vast hemispheric spy network that transmitted information about the army, war industries and other vital United States security data to Berlin. * ‘Three Axis espionage organizations operated in Argentina, General Fredrich Wolf, German military attache, was the leader of one ring. His organization included a number of Argentine, Spanish and German citizens. The Buenos Aires correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that shortly after the report was released, the Information Secretariat announced that the house arrest of Wolf and the Japanese naval aftache and his assistant had been lifted. The attaches were released because of their diplomatic status, the secretariat said. Their freedom could not affect police investigations. They would have complete freedom of movement till arrangements were made for their repatriation.