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~ -10- ~Gridiwisky reported to his suveriors in Seslin S were operatin,; in the (n.tec States, ena wit tuere center .itnout its active cell of azi-U..raiaiens. fae authors state that they have seci.red an afficavit iron a U rainian= Americen wno for 4 tine served as 2 plotogrsaher sor Avracenko ene Lissit . nis statewent, wich has been turned over to tne Federal authorities, telis how curin; th: years 1934-40 these fascist Vxrainians took nwaerous pictures oi Auerican industrial cities, military ni-hways, oriages, airtields, rivers, railroads enc factories. Occasionally, the s ies anc saboteurs cot out of hanc ana startec racxets 9 their om. shen the Tala-Sacoda Oa kicn=:ping ana curder was rouncea up in New york cit, in 153@, Senyx-Grioiwisiy was fearful ast the inciceat .i ht leac to % uncovering of wie | sole Ou network. ‘Ine "Salesman of terrortt hurries to Eurore. However, he was soon dacx in the teninute iInstractioas vo Qu.v agents before the ouvoreai oO AS a reward for “his services to Gerimeny he was promisea a hi_h _overns nt position in the Nazi-occupied Uxraine. Instead or tnat, in the fell of 1941 a diliet from a Soviet-Usraine guerilla brouznt his ccreer to a sudden close. Hs was killed while traveling with the German Army oi invasion. CHArTSA VI “How Liany were Sabotasea?" The authors co into det. rardin’ the ounins of the Normundie. ‘ney st tnt regardless oI the fact that tne House aval Afiairs subcom.ittee found thet the cause of the fire was cirectly attrio.ted to carelessness and lack of supervision and that the Senate Naval Afrairs Comittee founc the difficulty of placing the blame on any one individual or group and that the Naval Court of Inquiry telt that the Hobdins bry Locx and kepair Company showld be c.arged with sross carelessness, "it seeisa tiet sor sone time to come, tne burnin= of the Noruencie will resin one of the or mysteries or Srorla war Ti." The autnors incicete trou their remarks vhat they feel person:lly that the Normandie was s result or foreicn inspired sabotace and wey quot particularly the detailea accounts waich appeared in the ew York newspa,er —. tas ce arter tne Kormandie burned. In tris chapter they relate what they term "the mystery of the ei:ht shivs, showing how eight cifferent snips, bound for Soviet Russia, and nesvily loaded id supplies vital to the hed Army, hac strange and similar fates. Not one of tne ships reached its destination. ‘Three of them foundered on the hich seas; four limped back into the ports from which they had set out; and one crippled ship was torpedoed as it struggled to return to port. In each case, according to the wen who sailed tne ships “snifting cargo" was to blame. The authors present in this chayter wat tney term, "Facts anu Filures." Seginniny with July 10, 1940, at the tine rresident Uoosevelt submitted to the Con ur his ::4,800,000,000,Gerense program, they give a series of dates showins various acts of sabotage in cironolo ical order, wich inclugea the Hercules Powder Plant st ieiv: the Unitea itailroaa ana Signal Corporavion explosions at loodbrid=e, hev Jersey,