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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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In Ottawa on Mar. 4, Prime Minister MacKenzie King publicly reported on Soviet espionage at the embassy, revealing instructions from Moscow in Aug. 1945 to obtain US and Canadian military secrets, including atomic bomb details. Attache Col. Nicoli Zabotin accused; later recalled.
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OTTAWA, Mar. 4 (AP) - Prime Minister MacKenzie King made a public report of leakage official secrets which declared the evidence reveals these operations were carried on by certain members of the staff at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa under direct instructions from Moscow.
The Russian agents were instructed by Moscow in August, 1945, near the end of the war in the Pacific to obtain "information as to the transfer of American troops from Europe to U. S. and the Pacific."
The two-man royal investigating commission declared in the report to King that the location and headquarters of a score of U. S. army divisions or troops of the U. S. Ninth army were sought from Col. Nicoli Zabotin, military attache at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa.
The announcement said the report declared Zabotin was accused of getting the following information. 1-Particulars as to the material of which the atomic bomb is composed: its technological processes and drawings. 2-Details of "electronic shells used by the American Navy." 3-"Samples of uranium 235, with details as to the plant where it was produced. 4-"Location of the Brazilian infantry division which fought in Italy. Lists of Canadian army divisions returned to Canada."
Moscow announced recently that Zabotin was recalled from Ottawa as an embassy member.
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Ottawa
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Mar. 4
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moscow announced recently that zabotin was recalled from ottawa as an embassy member.
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Prime Minister MacKenzie King made public a report on the leakage of official secrets, declaring that evidence reveals operations carried on by certain members of the staff at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa under direct instructions from Moscow. The Russian agents were instructed by Moscow in August 1945 to obtain information as to the transfer of American troops from Europe to U. S. and the Pacific. The two-man royal investigating commission declared that the location and headquarters of a score of U. S. army divisions or troops of the U. S. Ninth army were sought from Col. Nicoli Zabotin, military attache at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. The announcement said the report declared Zabotin was accused of getting: 1-Particulars as to the material of which the atomic bomb is composed: its technological processes and drawings. 2-Details of "electronic shells used by the American Navy." 3-"Samples of uranium 235, with details as to the plant where it was produced. 4-"Location of the Brazilian infantry division which fought in Italy. Lists of Canadian army divisions returned to Canada."