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THEFT OF ATOMIC
i SECRETS ; :
Two A¡TO feints
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WASHINGTON. JaJy 1* (AJWTJ.
Th*: Jastíce DeBsct-nent as-aeea-MT.
thai tin at-my -seu-taats. a Fens*yl- .
vasnan, Alexander van der hutt, aaa
a CSacageasv^ Ernest "D. Wallia, baw <
been arrested and charred with eta*
wflral reawval of ateamentetress the
Loa Alames (New Mexko) atecafc
testing statten.
The F.BÍ director (Mr. J. Kdgar
Hoover) in a statement said that a
search of Luffs room at Princeton Uni-
versity, where he is a-student.- resulted
in a recovery of about 300 pages cf
notes..and other docimipnts marked
.'secret," pertaining to the atom bomb.
A, folder containing highly confidential
data on the atom bomb also was re-
covered from von der Luffs family vault,
in the Mount Lebanon cemetery. About
200 photographs -and negatives were
seizad in Wallis* photographie studio in
Chicago. The pictures showed variant
phases of. the atom .bomb,, and the test
explosion. : They were given to the O.S.
Atomic Enargy ' CamjntBskkL whose ex?
perts found that many of them were
classified.as "te* secret'*
Mr. Hoover added that FAX. investi-
gation disclosed that von dar Loft and
Wall» ? eaav^aat taow each etíiec^*»*
hud worked on tb* Las Alamos project.
The ?':aW&-jBûil(m*;*aeèi,.tar-;.V&l.
(M. Lou Nichols) said that the in
formatioh uncovered .indicated that
there was no; connection between these"
men and foreign agents, ..
TRIAL IN OPEN COTJRT
A justice department spokesman told
reporters that ; tb» department feared
that > trial in the. open: Court would
force the government to reveal the very
thing , that it spent millions to keep
secret Senator Homer Ferguson (Re-
publican. Michigan) and other Senators
laughed off this suggestion, and demand-
ed the immediate prosecution of-the two
ex-sergeants "lest the go-easy police
jopen the gates to further leaks of vital
information.""
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