Greek Priest Charged With Spying In Prague
(10 a m ) PRAGUE, Dec. 13. The trial of Father Pavel llucko, a priest of the Greek Catholic Church in Prague, on charges of using his rectory in Prague as a centre for espionage, opened in the State Court. With him in the dock were nine others, charged with running a network of spies and agents . between Czechoslovakia and anti-Soviet groups in Central Europe. The police said they found maps showing secret airfields on which arms were to be dropped and plans linking a number of functionaries of the ureek Catholic Church with the network. They claimed that United States coun-ter-intelligence was connected with these activities.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19481214.2.73
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22819, 14 December 1948, Page 5
Word Count
113Greek Priest Charged With Spying In Prague Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22819, 14 December 1948, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.