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-* One of, West Germany's top ” intelligence Officials went on trial " accused of selling. secrets to the Russians over the past 10 years. * Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D- _ Conn., charged that. Communist “secret police agents are being smuggled into this country in clerical garb as members of pre- “sumably bonafide delegations of >, Orthodox clergymen from Iron Curtain countries. ° © The Dr. Martelli, mentioned above, told a British court that the Russians had tried, unsuccess- _fully, to get him to take a teach- ‘ing and research post at Prince- ton University as a cover for es- pionage activity. | OUR FBI has done a master- ful job of spy-catching not only in the latest instances but in num- erous others not already cited, such as the apprehension of Ru- lolph Sobel, Dr. Robert Soblen ps others of not-too-far distant least partly awakened, at lon, last, to the existence and dangers: of Soviet espionage. We think it time that the New Frontiersmen showed an equal awareness by abandoning the position, still too prevalent in Washington, that communism here at home is just an “idea” which presents no real . - _ and present internal danger, emory, The British appear to be | THERE are a few encouraging . . indications in this direction as” when, the other day Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy told a televi- sion interviewer that Communis- tic espionage directed against the i a : US. is “increasing.” é . We are hoping for more signs --—Mmany more—of official aware- ness of this problem and peril.