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G-MEN CONTINUE SEARCH FOR GREAT SPY ORGANISATION IN UNITED STATES Extensive Espionage System Unearthed When Three Arrested
Soviet Russia
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As Mastermind In International Ring
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NEW YORK.
APRIL
1938
AS THE GREATEST NATIONAL DEFENge programME IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE THE WORLD WAR GOT UNDER WAY RECENTLY, AGENTS OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF IN- VESTIGATION ("G-MEN"). UNCOVERED WHAT IS ALLEGED TO BE THE MOST EXTENSIVE ESPIONAGE SYSTEM EVER DIS- COVERED IN THIS COUNTRY DURING PEACE TIME.
According to an announcement made simultaneous- ly by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, in Washington and Reed Vetterli, bureau chief in this city, the aims of the 'spv organisation, supposedly working under the direction of a foreign secret service, included the procure- ment of plans related both to the latest United States naval and military construction programmes and to the methods of United States mobilisation, particularly for defence of the Panama Canal.
The espionage plot, it is said, also included a system whereby false American passports would be obtained for spies in Soviet Russia, who thus as apparent United States citizens, would then not be liable to a foreign government.
Although this phase of the United States army-one Ger- investigation has as yet not been man born and the other educated sufciently carried out, it is pre-in Germany-and a German wo- sumed that the Robinsons, now man had been arrested and were held in Russia on charges of es-awaiting Grand Jury action on pionage, may have obtained charges of espionage. their false American passports in this manner.
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One of the men was Gustave Rum- rich, 27 years old. He was born in the United States but educated in The Federal Bureau of Inves- Germany, where he spent most of tigation drive against espionage his life. Rumrich was was not known to the public un-the Unlied States army and
ago. The other man was three years the sensa- til recently, when
Erich Glaser, 28, a private in the Reconnaissance Squadron at tional announcement was made 18th. that two former members of the Mitchel Field, air defence centre of New York City. Glaser was born in Germany.
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minary investigation, Rumrich was to SSSSSSSSSSINESSESESSELS furnish mobilisation plans for the Panama Canal and other areas in In this connection he case of war. case of
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is supposed to have been involved extraordinary plot to lure Colone! W. T. Eglin, commander at Fort
of the 62nd Const Artlilery Totten near New York City, to the Hotel McAlpin and there obtain documents pertaining to mobilisation plons either by intimidating him or killing him..
As far as the mobilisation plans for the Panama Canal are concerned, military authorities pointed out, this information is obialnable by almost everyone. The alleged plot against Colonel Eglin was practically childish too, they said, because the colonel.
are in that had no documents
in any way secret. Rough drawings of tanks and other armaments found in Rumrich's possession at the time of his arrest were also said to be prac-
leally valueless.
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FALSE PASSPORT TRAFFIC Federal agents revealed further- in- more that Rumrich was also volved in the false passport traffe which led ultimately to his arrest. It is said that posing as "Mr. Weston, Under-Secretary of State," Rumrich telephoned the Passport Bureau in PRSS- New York asking to send him
hotel. Federal port blanks to agents, becoming suspicious, the companied
messenger, held Rumrich and questioned him.
Similarly, none of the information the other man, Glaser, was thought to have furnished or was about to furnish was considered of any prac- tient value to a foreign power, ex- cept the secret codes of the Air Ser- vice, which recently disappeared from Mitchel Field and which,
Glaser might is thought,
have obtained in view of his advantage in being at that particular defence cen- tre.
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When Miss Holmann was arrested, it is said, she had in her possession letters offering $1,000 for informa- tion concerning the two new United States aircraft carriers, the Inter- Yorktown Princi- prise and the pally, it is thought, Miss Hofmann's connection with the alleged espion- age ring was to act as a messenger between here and Europe-presum- ably Germany,
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The general impression created here among federal authorities Inso- fur na these three defendanta is that, If they were really in the employ of a foreign power they were merely being tried out and that their complishments so far were of little Valus. On the other hand, Federal Bureau of Investigation continuing its search, conndent, It seams, that these three were only the most inexperiencet of the spy. ring and that there are other more Important members still at large.
Implied importance The
of these three arrests has been forcefully pointed out by high military authori les, who insist that the defendants, should be tried by court martial ing stead of taking the; eres before – a Grand Juryknings
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