VIERECK SPY TRIAL
WOMEN'S EVIDENCE
(Rec. 9 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, February 26.
The trial is proceeding of George Sylvester Viereck. on charges of being a registered German agent.
Mrs. Gordon Spielman, formerly confidential secretary to the late Senator Ernest Lundeen, said that Mr Lundeen's widow stripped his files of all information relating to Viereck after Lundeen was killed in a plane crash or August 31, 1940. Mrs. Spielman also testified that Lundeen delivered anti-British speeches written by Viereck when Lundeen knew that Viereck was in the pay of the Nazis.
Harriet Johnson, a former stenographer in Lundeen's office* said that Viereck dictated an outline of a speech to her on German-American trade relations, and that subsequently Viereck went to the German Embassy for material with which to fill in the outline.
Nayda Gardner, a British censorship worker of Bermuda, testified that she intercepted a manuscript for .a Nazi book, "Who's Who Among Warmongers." which was sent by the former Democrat Senator, Rush Holt, of West Virginia, via the German Ambassador in Lisbon to the Wilhelmstrasse.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1942, Page 5
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