ESPIONAGE ALLEGATIONS
RUSSIANS IN CALIFORNIA SECRETS OF JAPANESE LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22. A Federal Grand Jury has indicted two Russians, Mikhail Gorin and HafLs Salich, on charges of espionage. There are three counts against each man. They will toe arrainged op December 26.
The two Russians were arrested on charges of having stolen secret American information regarding Tapani's naval and military strength and passed it on to the Soviet. Gorin was the local manager of Intourist Bureau (the Soviet travel agency) at Los Angeles, and Salich, a Russianborn American citizen, was connected with the United States secret services. A spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (the G-men) said: "They stole all our secret information on the Japanese Army and Navy and converted it to Russia's use. They let us do all the work and hoped to reap all the benefit." Salich, who is 35, was a United States naval intelligence officer at San Pedro naval base and had access to data on Japan, which the G-men said were of the utmost value to Russia. He is alleged to have supplied this to Gorin, a former Soviet Consular official.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19821, 24 December 1938, Page 5
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