RUSSIAN SPY IN CABINET CODE ROOM SHOT IN 1939

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22819, 14 December 1948, Page 5

RUSSIAN SPY IN CABINET CODE ROOM SHOT IN 1939

(N.Z.R.A. —Reuter—-Copyright.) (10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec, 13, Information supplied by W'hiiUiker Chambers, a former Communist spy courier, was partly responsible for the capture and subsequent execution of a Soviet spy in Britain in 1939, according to the World Telegram interview with Mr. Isaac Don Levine, editor of the magazine Plain Talk. Mr. Levine said that on the basis of information given him by Chambers and General Walter Rrivitsky, the former Soviet Military Intelligence Chief in Western Europe, who had renounced Stalinism, he had gone to Lord Lothian British Ambassador in Washington, to warn him of the Soviet spy's presence in the code room ol the British Cabinet. Mr. Levine said ire later learned the spy had been caught and executed.

General krivitsky subsequently went to England to assist the British Intelligence and helped to smash Soviet spying. In 1941 General Krivitsky was found dead in a Washington hotel room in circumstances never fully explained, according to Mr. Levine.