SOVIET METHODS
UNDERGROUND ACTIVITIES OBTAINING SECRET CODES Press Association —By Telegraph— Copyright. PARIS, October 28. (Receive October 29, at 11 a.m.) M. Bessedovsky asserts that the Soviet also obtained by the same method as that by which they got tho Italian code, the British Government’s India Office code, and that it has since been able to translate all British code messages to India. M. BESSEDOVSKY'S REVELATIONS COURT PROCEEDINGS FOLLOW. MOSCOW, October 23. (Received October 29, at 9.45 a.m.) M. Bessedovsky is to bo prosecuted for theft and embezzlement. The Foreign Office refuses to comment on tho allegations concerning tho Italian and British secret codes. [M. Bessedovsky told the Paris Press how the Soviet had obtained the Italian secret code. Ho said: “The Italian attache at Berlin offered the code for £I,OOO to the Soviet Embassy at Paris. A Soviet member of the Embassy, undor the pretence of a desire to verity its authenticity, borrowed the book and photographed every page of it while the Italian waited in tho next room. He then told him that the Soviet had decided not to purchase it.”]
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Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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183SOVIET METHODS Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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