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to testify, demanded that th at mmittee set forth in detail the nature and object of its investigation and explain to the satis-— ’ faction of the witness, how each question was pertinent to the sub- ject of the investigation, Recently, the F.B.I. announced the arrest of Col. Rudolf Ivanovich Abel of the Soviet secret police. In the indictment against him he was charged with being the master spy cf a Soviet 7tomic spy ring which fed top secret information to Moscow, The charge could bring Abel the death penalty. On the game day, August 9, 1957, in Manhattan Federal Court, two confessed Soviet spies, Mrs. Myra Soble, 53 years old, and wacob Alban, 65, were sentenced to prison terms of Sy years for con- spiring with high ranking Soviet officials to obtain vital defense ohs and writinca for traneamiasion to the Soviet Union. Their cooperation with the F.B.I. Saved them a heavier sen- tence upon their guilty plea, Jack Soble, husband of Myra, was not sentenced with his wife, as he is "cooperating" with the F B.I. to complete an investigation of a web of intrigue and espionage spun from New York to Paris, Geneva, Lausanne, Vienna, and Moscow. He will be sentenced September 18, 1957. Related to the Scoble case the case of Mrs. Stern, the daughter of the late William E. Dodd, former ambassador to Germany, whe, together with her husband, Alfred Stern, have been revealed as being spies for the Soviets for the last ten years. Thies latest disclosure shocked the country for here we . have in the very seat of our government in Washington, a spy case in which the daughter of a former renroszen @ecuring secrets for the Communists and attempting to penetrate busi concerns to serve as covers for espionage work. The Communists through Mrs. Stern and her husband planned to plant an agent in the office of Cardinal Bpellman of New York and getting “compromising information” on President Eisenhower, Gen. Lucius D. Clay and other ominent Americans, This latest eny c = . a Fr a United States Intelligence agent in Germany, who narrowly escaped eapture by the Soviets in Moscow when Mra. Stern became suspicious o him, Morros, acting his part, took his orders from Soviet spies who included a chairman of the former four power Allied Control] Commissi in Vienna, a Soviet Ambassador to Switzerland and a secretary in the Ls 7” “4 a y ta +] oo Mrs, Stern and he Stern, recently left Mexico to which country they went after liqui- dating more than $1,000,000 worth of assets when they realized that they were the subject of an investigation by American authorities