SPIES AND WRECKERS
IN RED ARMY SCHOOLS LECTURERS ACCUSED LONDON, Jan. 12. (Received Jan. 12, at 11.30 p.m.) The Warsaw correspondent of The Times, in a message from Moscow, says the O.G.P.U. reported that they discovered a nest of spies and wreckers among the lecturers in Mo: cow’s military and educational establishments. They are accused of giving the students false instruction in the art of war. which, if put into practice would brine disaster upon the Soviet arms. This wrong instruction is said to have been going on over a year, particularly in the Red Army School of Chemical Warfare, where' the first lecturer wrpeker was discovered to be giving false instruction in tactics. Further investigations revealed that the school’s political commissar, M. Isakofl, had been “-blind and deaf” for a year while Fascist spies worked under his very nose.
The O.G.P.U.’s new chief, M. Barea. ordered a thorough purge of the Red Army’s schools.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23706, 13 January 1939, Page 7
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