The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17

ternment for the duration of the war, has come from private citi- zens whose suspicious have been
 aroused by activities of potential Fifth Columnists.
 Perhaps the most famous spy ! thriller cracked by a tip from a civilian was the famo $ Duquesne espionage case in which B NaZi agents were apprehended and con- victed. For some time during the investigation, the FBI sought to identify one Heinrich who was furnishing to Lily Stein, fellow spy, information on U. s. aircraft production.
 HEINRICH" NABBED
 It was an observant Connecticut photographer who supplied the missing clew. Noticing that one Edmund c. Heine had placed an unusually large order for photo graphs, and had asked many ques- tions about the area. the photog- rapher passed on his information to the FBI. With this clew, the G. men clamped down on Heine and were able to identify him as the mysterious Heinrich. His sentence was IS years plus fine of 5000.
 Ernest Frederick Lehm1rz and Erwin Harry De Spretter, the two Staten Island spies convicted last summer, were both tipped off to the FBI by civilian reports. Lehmitz came to the United States in March 1941, aboard the Siboney. On the voyage across, his actions had aroused the suspicious of an alert fellow Reporting his sus- picions to the FBI, he set in motion a long and painstaking investiga- tion which finally resulted in the apprehension of NaI spy who had been trained in Germany in the preparation of secret writing and schooled in the type of information valuable to the German high con- mand
 De Spretter had the FBI put on his trail from simple report from a civilian that the man was strongly pro-NaI in his sympathies, indicating for the first time that he might be engaged in activities 1n- imical to the national security. It was more than a year later, how ever, before the G-men were able to check his record and gather the evidence that led to his conviction. Both Lehmitz and De Spretter were sentenced to 30 years.
 COLOMBIAN NAZI
 It was New Workers tip that helped clinch the case against Ro- berto Lanas Vallencilla, a Colum- bian employed in the offices of the Coordinator of Inter-American Af- fairs in Washington. Lanas Val lencilla recently confessed to com- munications with the NaziS, after his arrest by the FBI. Months be- fore New Yorker had reported to the FBI that LanaS Vallencilla had asked a woman acquaintance to work flor the cause" and had of fered $450 month for her services. This one scrap of information was an important contribution to the CfAOCAACC W14CA tIIC ro4 1ldU d1- ready accumulated, and it aided materially in his conviction.
 Rounding up of the Detroit spy ring of eight principals last fall had its beginning in San Francisco be- fore the war when a German ex- army captain named Gugula Roz- inek aroused the suspicious of fel- low-employes in a chemical works by his pro- Nazi views. He had pro- claimed, Hitler is not only my Fuehrer, but my God" A loyal American reported the incident to the FBI. and the investigation be- gan.
 Rozinek was found to be the hus- band of well-known lecturer on Hungarian folklore, Sari de Hajek, whose lecture tours were really a blind for gathering information on Americas defense effort. It was Sari de Hajek who recruited Grace Buchanan-Dineen, the Canadian born woman who was center of the ring, and was trained for her work in Budapest and Berlin.