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{ ‘Soviet Espi (Mount Clipping In Space Below) onage Is | | ‘A Real, Present Peril ‘D* GIUSEPPE MARTELLI, an Italian atom scientist for- merly employed by the British government, said last week in the’ historie Old Bailey courtroom that * -a Soviet agent attempting to blackmail him into espionage for’ Russia had confided that “We have friends everywhere in Lon- don, including Scotland Yard.” Dr. Martelli, who is’ charged + on nine counts of “preparing to “+ spy for Russia,” attributed the statement to one Nik lov, a former Soviet diplomas t | slow identified by British securit rees as a master spy. , CERTAINLY the British ree- ord for catching—or not catching spies is not enviable. To call the roll of cases from Allen Nunn . May and Klaus Fuchs, the Cana- dian spy ring uncovered by Igor Gouzenko's defection, the flight of Burgess and McLean and Bruno Pontecorvo, the more recent Gor- , don Lonsdale, George Blake and John William Vassal cases and kolai Karpe-- " Britishe.camplacence about Communist espionage contributed heavily to the success of the Ro- senberg-Sobel-Greenglass spy ap- paratus which joined with the aforementioned Klaus Fuchs to filch atomic secrets from Los Ala- * mos and give the Russians a short nuclear power W: judge said in sentencing the Ro- ‘senbergs to death) endangered the lives of millions and altered, for the worse, the course of world historv. 7 v ee the implications of espionage or’ attempted espionage activity: linkéd to the Profumo scandal, is to note only the high spots in a‘ long history of ineffective secu- rity at the warst or sluggish in- ; difference at-the-best, SSS ae a ith the West in alr. Semon Mr. Mohr. "| Mr. Casper. Mr. Calla ctr, Grnrad {indicate page, name of P newepaper, city ana staten)é7 C Cincinnati Enquir _Cincinnati, OhLo Cincinnati Post & Times Star _Cincinnati, Ohio The Citizen Jourr —Columbus, Ohio Columbus Dispatcl 1%olumbus, Ohio Dayton Daily Nev — Dayton, Ohio Journal Herald Dayton, Ohio er Editions Home Author: ERNEST CADY Editor: Editorial tive: Writer character: B0~ y or Classification: Submitting Office NOT pecoRDED ¢ 191 gut 23 1963