The Washington times., 1938-06-21

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American Air Corps Developments
have been spirited to Germany.
The existence of worldwide eSpi
onage activities by the Nazi gov
eminent and the fact the spies
have been able to obtain some
secrets was disclosed to Interna,
tional News Service today by re,
sponsible authority. The source
must remain anonymous.
INDICTMENTS CITED
The revelations were made pos
sible by the action of the Federal
Grand Jury in New York city in
indicting 18 persons, three of
them high officers in the Nazi war
ministry, for espionage activities.
Since Chancellor Hitler came to
power, the authority stated, an
army of espionage agents, the
largest since the World War days,
has been unlooSed on the world.
Nazi spy rings have been active
in America, Great Britain, France,
and Russia, especially. But not
even Germany'S allies, Italy and
Japan, have been excepted. The
network of secret agents extends
to all the major and most of the
minor powers.
PRESENT GROUP A FART
The spy ring uncovered in New
York after months of inveStiga-
ton by the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation in cooperation with the
Army intelligence service and
State Department, is only a por-
tion Of the huge espionage group
working in the United States.
Sufficient evidence has been un-
covered, it was learnd, to serve as
the basis for Federal grand jury
investigations in other parts of the
nation.
The tools Of the Nazi secret
agents have been bribery, the lure
of beautiful women and the plac-
ing of naturalized Germans, sym.
pathetic with the Nazi idealogy,
in armies and navieS, and their re-
serve officer corps. In other in
stances, the Nazis have sought to
introduce Workmen in airplane
and munitions plants where Army
and Navy secret developments are
placed in production.
U. S. FRUITFUL FIELD
The United States has been one
of the NaziS' most fruitful fields.
Other nations execute spies forth
with. but the United States does
not in peacetime. Furthermore,
convictions for espionage activities
have been almost unknown in this
country and the penalties are
slight. Feeling comparatively Sc
cure, the secret agents have car
ried on their espionage activities
for several years.
The German spy activities, In
ternational News Service was told,
began shortly after the end of
the World WARM fact, ceased
only for short time after the
war ended when Germany's gov
ernment was in chaotic condi-
ton.
Then, in the early twenties,
when Germany rebelled against
the provisions of the Versailles
treaty and began secretly rearm-
ing, the espionage system which
proved so effective for the cause
of the Central Powers prior to and
during the war was recreated.
OLD FOES WATCHED
The secret agents were charged
with obtaining the war plans and
secret developments in arms Of
Germany's former opponents, the
allied powers. This group, of
course, included Italy and Japan.
Since the Nazis came to power
and Germany has again emerged
as one of the major military ma
tions, the espionage activities
have been intensified ten-fold.
The Nazi ring has concentrated
it's efforts in the United States
on obtaining Army and Navy
aviation and antiaircraft defense
secrets. These were the primary
objectives of the spy "cell" work
ing in the New York metropoli-
tan area.
Other spy cells in Washington
and on the Pacific Coast have
sought plans of naval develop
ments, especially submarines and
antisubmarine defense devices.
1t was the bungled attempt Of
the ring to obtain Americas latest
anti-aircraft secrets which led to
its undoing.
TOMORROW: HoW the NGsi
spy ring lUOTEed)
Trio Convicted,
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