BACTERIA TO CAUSE EXPLOSIONS
SPY TRIAL REVELATION (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 4. Paul Borchardt, a former major in the German Army, who is on trial with five others for espionage, admitted that he informed a high official of the German Government regarding the progress of research into a method of causing oil tanks to explode by introducing bacteria. The prosecution produced a letter intercepted by British agents at Bermuda, which discussed Professor Jemima’s researches into bacteria, which, when introduced into oil tanks, formed methane gas and caused explosions. Borchardt previously had said that when a tanker exploded near Brooklyn it might not have been sabotage but the result of bacteria gas.
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Southland Times, Issue 24686, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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