SPIES SENTENCED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 22 March 1939, Page 9

SPIES SENTENCED.

CONSPIRACY CHARGES. Received March 22, 8.5 a.m. LOS ANGELES, March 20. Sentence on the spies Mikhail Gorin and Hafis Salich, who had been convicted on three counts of espionage and conspiracy, which had been deferred pending an appeal, was imposed today. Gorin was sentenced to six years imprisonment, and fined 10,000 dollars, and Salich to four years’ imprisonment, and a fine of 1000 dollars. Sallcli was accused of selling naval secrets to Gorin for transmission to Moscow. “The Federal grand jury laic yesterday ripped flic cover off a purported Russian spy plot, when it returned an espionage indictment against two men whose machinations allegedly involved theft of highly confidential records from the United States Naval Intelligence Service,” reported the Pan Francisco Chronicle on Dec. 22. Tlio indictment named Mikhail Gorin, 34-yea r - old Pacific Coast manager of Intourist, Inc., Soviet travel bureau, and Ilafis Salich, aged 33. an employee of the Intelligence Service. Salich was accused of filching records from private naval files and turning them over to Gorin. Authorities said he received at least 1700 dollars over a period of 15 months from Gorin, a Russian subject The Grand Jury considered tho case onlv briefly before voting tho indictment, which charges each of the men with three counts under 1 lie Espionage Act, The cliciT"prf'.~ parry <i possililo muximum sentence of 60 years in prison—2o years on each count.