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Early one morning last week FBI agents rapped sharply on the doors of five Detroit houses, made five arrests. Agents in New York boarded a freighter, made a sixth. Four of the prisoners-a countess, a fashionable doctor, a social worker, a sailor-looked to FBI like the shadiest spy ring yet rounded...
...fantastic." Until the four are put on trial in mid-September, the Government is jealously guarding all details of its superduper spy story. But FBI introduced a cast of characters to jar the most jaded melodrama addict. Charged with collecting information on U.S. war plans and plants: > "Countess" Grace (pronounced "Grawse," she says) Buchanan-Dineen, 34, Canadian-born, who traveled widely in Europe and somehow picked up a hyphenated name and title. FBI claims that she also picked up considerable spy-schooling in Budapest. In 1941 she landed in the U.S. by clipper from Lisbon, eventually turned up in Detroit...
Dripping real and fake jewelry, the vivacious, smartly gowned Countess endeared herself to Detroit's uppercrust as lecturer and hostess (she served sherry with a dash of British accent). She kept: 1) a bottle of invisible ink in her apartment kitchen, 2) a black-and-green notebook containing the names of 200 "in fluential" people living in the U.S. For two years - since U.S. agents first called on her for a long, heart-to-heart talk -the Countess has played a dangerous double game: she has bossed the spy ring with one hand, tipped...
...Fred William Thomas, 44, sullen-eyed obstetrician furnished the "Countess" with prescriptions for the ingredients of invisible ink, says FBI. Lethargic (except when expounding Hitler's New Order) Dr. Thomas once spent a year in Ham burg as an exchange surgeon. He denied being...
...Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, titian-topped Countess Renée Maeterlinck told how she got her husband, octogenarian Belgian dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck, to write the memoirs he will publish next autumn: "I trap him as a cat would a mouse. I ask him questions. I make him answer me. Then pretty soon he's writing a book...