Evening star., 1942-09-21
Jap Participation
In Spy Ring Exposed
In 1941 Revealed
Contact Man Escaped
While FBI Probed
His Activities
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The big Nazi spy ring broken up
in June, 1941, was working with the
| Japanese, it was disclosed last night
by the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton. The Jap agent serving as
contact man between the two gov
ernments escaped while his activities
were under scrutiny-several months
before Pearl Harbor.
1t. Comdr. Takeo Ezima of the
Japanese Navy, who masqueraded as
an engineer inspector with Offices i'm
New York, under the name of E.
Satoz, the FBI said, was a liaison
man for the spy ring, the largest un-
| covered so far OF that gang 80
are serving prison terms aggregating
279 years. Most of them pleaded
guilty
AS the FBI was arresting the spies.
Comdr Ezima quietly left New York
for the West Coast, boarded the Jap
anese freighter Kamakura-Maru and
went home. The ship sailed ahead
of schedule, the FBI said, to accom-
modate the naval officer. Comdr.
Ezima's hasty departure was in con-
trast with his arrival for a three
year working visit on the Heian-
Maru at Seattle in the summer of
1888
Story Learned From Film.
The story of Comdr. Ezima was
| learned from the FBI through his
appearance in current motion pic
ture short, The FBI Front which
shows a brief sequence from the
movies of spy meetings taken sec
reilly by G-Men and used at the
Nazis' trial. Previously there had
been no disclosure of japanese par
ticipation in the spy plot.
Agents of the FBI had filtered
into the ring and were, in fact, op-
Grating its hidden radio station near
Centerport, Long Island, N. Y, which
was. the communications center for
the gang. This station worked with
| Germanys main espionage radio
station In Hamburg, whence came
instructions for operations in this
country.
On October 10, 1910, the Hamburg
| station sent word that Carr" was to
meet a Mr.. E. Satoz on a certain
date at a japanese club in down.
town New York. Carr" was the
name used by Everett Minister Roe
der, a Nazi agent now serving Is
years on his plea of guilty to an
espionage charge.
Carr" met "Satoz" and so advised
Hamburg by radio. Hamburg then
sent word that "Satoz" would handle
bulky material intended for ship
ment to Germany.
Decided on Longer Route.
The Nazi spies had been sending
messages by radio and documents
and samples of American war ma
terrell by boat. Everything was
censored" by the War Department,
unknown to the spies, before it left
the United States. British inter-
ference, made the route through Lis.
bon, Portugal, more difficult, and
presumably the German spy COM
mand decided to use the longer route
through Japan.
sComdr. Ezima's program, outlined
to the spies, was for four day run
to the West Coast where the stuff
would be picked up every two weeks
by boats sailing for Japan.
The little Japanese officer showed
much interest in the methods of the
spy ring and was greatly impressed
by their apparent ability to get in
formation-a regard which must
have faded when he learned of the
FBI participation.
Those Of the spies who did not
plead guilty were convicted by a
Federal jury December 13. Freder-
lex j. Duqesne, So, described by the
Government as the handspring in
the plot, was sentenced to 18 wears