MILITARY SECRETS
ALLEGED ESPIONAGE PLOT ARRESTS IN AMERICA [FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WASHINGTON, February 27. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover (Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation) announced that three persons—an attractive German woman aged 26, and two United States soldiers—had been arrested for connection with a gigantic plot to sell American military secrets to a European country. ... Mr. Hoover said that two confessions had already been obtained. The three persons arrested, who will be charged with espionage, were Gunther Rumrich, 27, a sergeant of the United States Army who deserted in 1935 (he was born in the United States but received his education in Germany, where he spent most of his life); Erich Glaser, 28, a private of the air defence post at Mitchell Field New York (a native of Germany); and Johanna Hoffman, 26, of Dresden, a hairdresser on the liner Europa. The plot was discovered when the alleged spy ring attempted to obtain 50 passport applications, apparently to enable spies to enter Russian under the comparative safety of falsified American passports. The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that the arrests are considered to be of the greatest importance. Many other arrests are expected to follow.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 February 1938, Page 7
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