The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-06
by John Edgar HOOUer

ceeded in photographing typed page of spy reports and reducing it to film no larger than pencil point The film was embedded in comma or period on an envelope addressed to Germany. EEL technicians discovered this method of communication very early in the and caught hundreds of micro-dot mes sages. If the contents of one was innocuous it was permitted to go to Germany; it not, it was con- demned Conveniently, the spies numbered each meS- sage so that able to keep them in sequence. This particular ring has now been broken up Only recently 8 large number of members were deported to Germany.
 AS 8 matter of strategy many spy rings were permitted to operate under surveillance which often presented baffling problems. In one instance sourcefu F.BI. agent secured soft-drink peddlers wagon and sold drinks in the street. meanwhile keeping an observant eye on the meeting place of the espionage agents.
 German spies operating in South American Coun- tries often linked with espionage cases in the United States By exchanging information developed in this country with police agencies of our Southern neighbors, German spy successes were styrned Dur- ing the war F.BL intelligence agents were stationed in all South American countries In addition to changing information they served police instruc tors for the South American law enforcement agen- cies. In nnumerable cases FBI agents furnished information to South American police which resulted in prompt raids on Nazi spy hideous.
 One agent wormed his way into the confidence of group of subverSives to such extent that the death of of the leaders of the group which endeavoring to foment revolution, he signed a member of the guard of honor. Before photographer permitted to take pictures of the funeral bier surrounded by the guard of honor our agent was removed with the admonition that he was too valuable to the group to be spotted should the picture fall into the hands of the FBI.
 local official in country frequently boasted of his knowledge of worldwide police work. He claimed that he had studied Scotland Yard, the French Surete the F.BI and the worlds other lead ing investigatve agencies He frequently ridiculed the F.BI and other American institutions and boast ed that he Qpud "spot any FBI undercover agent sight, The man he intimately friendly with for four months F.BI. agent posing vs- itor The braggart imparted considerable confidential information to the visitor
 For months the F.B.I. operated secret radio station for the German network of spies in the United States. The funds for building it sup piled by the German Government. FBI. agents manned it completely and through 1t established tact with other clandestine radio stations operate[ by the Germans in South America Eventually, the trap sprung and all members of the NaN group apprehended.
 An example of good-neighbor policy in effec- tive intelligence work is the of August Lunning who endeavorng to furnish data to Germany by shorwave radio from Cuba. He kept singing canary to conceal the sound of the radio key in his room Highly trained and clever Lunnings career was, nevertheless, short. Detected by the FBI and rested by the Cuban National Police, he tried, found guilty and sentenced to face firing squad The execution of the six saboteurs who landed on the Eastern coast of the United States brought the total executions of enemy agents in the Western Hemisphere to seven.