VERY SECRET SPY TRIAL IN GERMANY AFFECTING U.S. SECURITY
(Rec. 11.10). MUNICH. February 16. Brigadier-General John McKee, chairman of the Military Commission which to-day commences trials of a number of persons for espionage, said that, two of five cases are so secret that, the Court would not make public' the names of the defendants or th? verdicts, even if executions were ordered. This is reported by an Associated Press correspondent. General McKee added that the United States Army Intelligence has insisted virtually upon unprecedented secrecy because the security of the United States would be endangered if the evidence or the names of the persons ‘involved become known. General McKee said that the first; and fifth cases would he in camera. The second one involved three Germans and two Poles. The third involved a woman, Elfriede Zirlik, and the fourth involved eight persons.
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Grey River Argus, 17 February 1949, Page 5
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