The Washington times., 1938-06-22
Liquor and Girls
Used by Spies to
Lure Out Secrets
L uxury Apartment
In Washington
Planned
By JOHN CROSSON and
SLOAN TAYLOR

NEW YORK, June 22 (C.I.F.
SO.-Sinister tentacles of the Nazi
spy syndicate may link Japan and
italy with the plot to steal United
States defense secrets. it was
limited yesterday as authorities
made new and startling dis
closures of how the ring operated
with bribery, theft and the lure
Of liquor and beautiful women.
Conviction of a naval officer
and yoeman for selling confiden-
tial information to Japan within
the last 18 months, and the influx
Of Nazi spies Immediately after
ward, were cited by Federal in
vestigators as grounds for sus-
picion that Germany began
where Japan left Off"
Italy was brought into the pic.
ture by reason of the tri-lateral
"snti-C Communistic" treaty re-
C|Fly signed by Mussolini with
Gel many and Japan. The ex-
change of secret information
about other nations among treaty
powers is common practice.
THE OLD TECHNIQUE!
Amazing new angles of tech
nique contemplated by the Nazl
ring in it's quest for confidential
data on American military air
craft and naval and coast de-
fenses were revealed yesterday fol
lowing the announcement that
Mrs. Kate Moog Busch, attractive
blonde nurse, would testify for the
prosecution.
The alluring Mrs. Busch, whose
nursing home at 276 Riverside
Drive was often used as a rendez-
vous for professional parleys as
well as relaxation by members OF
the undercover ring, was to have
been installed in a Sumptuous
apartment in Washington, it was
said she admitted.
Amid surroundings of sybaritic
luxury, it was to have been her
ehore to entertain high officials
of the Army and Navy with a
view to wheedling from them IN
unguarded moments priceless in
formation on the American mill
tary.
GOLDEN FLOW OF COIN
spy headquarters in Europe
promised her golden flow Of
coin to defray the costs Of re-
calling her gullible guests with
feasts, wassail and beauteouS COM
panions.
There were to be dinners, teas,
cocktail bouts, soireeS and levees.
GoId-braided salts and flint
iawed generals who held positions
Of trust were marked for tete-a-
tete slaughter by the charming
agents provocateur.
Agents generally appeared to
Rave been poorly paid. Guenther
Gustave Rumrich. first Of the
suspects arrested. was on the pay
rel for $50 month.
Rumrich, red-haired Johanna
Hoffman and two other defend
ants named in the indictments
were to be arraigned today before
Judge Vincent T.. Leibell in Fed
eral court.
Hope of escaping the maximum
penalty, it was said, was re-
soonsible for Mrs. Busch's sudden
decision to make her astonishing
revelations. Mrs. Busch, who was
a close friend of DR.. Ignatz T.
Griebl, one of the fugitives from
the espionage indictment, is being
held in protective custody in the
tower of the Federal Building.
Also under protective custody is
Miss Senta De Wanger, chic pro-
prietresS of a Hampstead, L. l.,
liuuor store that was patronized by
many of the officers and enlisted
men at Mitchell Field, the chief
Army aerial defense base of New
York. Her testimony will rank
second in Importance only to that
OF Mrs. Busch.
The three indictments against
the defendants cite "a overt acts
In the theft of an Air Corps signal
code and data on a new pursuit.
ship under development at the
Seversky plant in Farmingdale,
L. l.
other important testimony is
expected at the trial from the
three material witnesses being held
in high bail. Christian DanielSon,
As. a naturaliZed German-Ameri-
can, will be questioned about the
reported leak of information on
naval destroyers being built at the
bath Iron Works, Bath, Me-, where
he was employed as a craftsman
prior to his arrest.
The other two witnesses held in
hail are Karl Frederick Wilhelm
Herman, 35, and William Booming,
90 reported to be Nazi organizers
here.
The Federal grand jury that in
vestigated the spy plot will recon
vene within q week or so. to re-
rlne the investigation.
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