ESPIONAGE IN U.S.A.
GERMANS CHARGED
THEFT OF SECRETS DIRECTION BY NAZI HEADS (Received June 21, 2.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 20. The spy investigation took an extra* ordinary turn when a Federal Grand Jury named eighteen individuals, the majority of whom are highly-placed German officials, charging them with the wholesale theft of military, aviation, and industrial secrets. The Federal Prosecutor stated:— "The directing heads of this ring reside in Germany and are connected with the Government of Germany. They have operated through agents residing in the United States and have had agents among the crews of steamships plying between the United States and Germany. The directing heads paid these agents, all of whom are of German extraction, for funfishing information regarding American national defence."
Only four of those indicted are under arrest here. Thirteen others are resident in Germany and cannot be extra* dited.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 144, 21 June 1938, Page 10
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