ANOTHER MAN ARRESTED IN U.S. FOR CONSPIRACY

Wanganui Chronicle, 19 July 1950, Page 5

ANOTHER MAN ARRESTED IN U.S. FOR CONSPIRACY

WASHINGTON, July 17 (Rec. 6 pm).—Another American was arrested today on an espionage and conspiracy charge. The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, said Julius Rosenberg, a 32-year-old engineer, has been taken into custody in New York on a charge of conspiracy to commit espionage. Mr. Hoover described Rosenberg as "another important link in the Soviet espionage apparatus.’' During the last two months the F. 8.1. has arrested a bio-chemist, Harry Gold, a scientist, Alfred Deans Sclack, and a former United States Army sergeant, David Greenglass, on similar charges. Each is accused of having passed top secrets to the Russians in wartime. They are alleged to have collaborated with Doctoi Klaus Fuchs, atomic scientist, who has been gaoled in Britain for giving atomic secrets to Russia.. The F. 8.1. said Rosenberg was an engineering inspector in the Army Signal Corps from 1943 to 1945, when he was removed by the Secretary of War on the basis of information in-, dicatinc Communist Barty membership. Rosenberg, early In 1945, began working with Greenglass and Gold, who have been indicted as go-be-tweens for Soviet intelligence and Dr. Fuchs. Rosenberg is said to have giveu Greenqlass specific instructions as to the tvne of secrets Russia desired, the F. 8.1. said. This included classified technical information on the atomic bomb. The F. 8.1. said a unique method was used by the group to identity themselves to each other. 'Rosenberg, in New York, gave Greenglass one half of an irregularly cut. jelly box top. Gold gave Greenglass the other half in Albtmuerque, New Mexico, where Greenq’ass worked on atomic research. The F.BI. alleged that Greenglass received 500 dollars from Gold on this occasion and that the money came from Anatoli Yakovlev, Soviet Vice-Consul in New York, who since has left the United States. The F. 8.1. alleged that Greenglass, in return, gave Gold atomic secrets he had secured from the atomic bomb protect at Las Palmos. The F. 8.1. announcement said that after Dr. Fuch’s and Gold were arrested Rosenberg warned Greenglass to leave the country and supplied him with substantial funds. He instructed Greenglass to obtain a passport to Mexico and travel th Switzerland and then report to the Soviet! Embassy in Czechoslovakia Short-! ly afterwards. Greenglass was arrested by the F. 8.1.