Word: farnsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month onetime Lieut. Commander John Semer ("Dodo") Farnsworth, dishonorably discharged from the U. S. Navy in 1927, was arrested by the Department of Justice, accused of betraying Navy secrets to Japan (TIME, July 27). The District of Columbia's Grand Jury shortly indicted this jittery alcoholic on the charge that he sold to the Japanese a confidential Naval document entitled The Service of Information and Security. Last week the Grand Jury indicted Farnsworth on the more serious charge of conspiracy. Named were two of Farnsworth's clients: Commander Yosiyuki Itimiya, assistant Naval attaché at the Japanese...
Both these agents were reported safely out of the country last week. Unnamed, due to the Department of State's tact and powers of persuasion, was Farnsworth's third client, Commander Bunjiro Yamaguchi, also of the Japanese Embassy staff in Washington. Said Tokyo: "Although our hands are clean, stories published in America are admittedly embarrassing...
Embarrassing disclosures made in the second indictment were largely attributable to Fulton Lewis Jr., crack Hearst correspondent in Washington. Some months ago "Dodo" Farnsworth approached Newshawk Lewis, bluntly proposed to write for the Hearst papers a series of articles entitled: "How I was a Spy in the American Navy for the Japanese Government." Price: $20,000. Condition: that he be given 72 hours head start to catch the Hindenburg for Germany. Newshawk Lewis promptly notified Chief William D. Puleston of Naval Intelligence. Next he demanded proof of "Dodo's" relations with the Japanese. Farnsworth called up Commander Yamaguchi...
...employment as an aviation instructor. All turned down his services. Last nation he approached was Japan, asking a $50,000 cash advance, a salary as commander in the Japanese Navy. An unidentified Japanese opened negotiations with him, required evidence of his qualifications for the job. From the Navy Department Farnsworth obtained a batch of photographs showing U. S. battleships. Before turning his own copy of the supposedly secret Navy handbook over to the Japanese, Farnsworth said, he had checked it with a more recent edition belonging to a Navy Department friend. He insisted he had never received a cent...
...Washington some wiseacres wondered whether the Navy Department was not making an extraordinary display of the Farnsworth case in the Press as a warning to other spies that the U. S. is not to be caught napping. But in Japan citizens wondered nothing at all because in not one Japanese newspaper was there so much as a mention of Farnsworth's arrest...