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Brunette Katherine Moog, who runs a nursing home for convalescents in Manhattan, identified herself as a friend and traveling companion of slick Dr. Ignatz Griebl, supposedly a key member of the gang. Beauteous Miss Moog related that she ran into Dr. Griebl on a Germany-bound ship in 1937. She proceeded with him to Berlin and there was introduced to Lieutenant Commanders Udo von Bonin and Hermann Menzel of the German War Ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Spy Business | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...official gentlemen suggested that a lady of Miss Moog's attraction might well open "a villa in Washington" with German money. There she would explain Naziism to Congressmen, military and naval officers, newspapermen. Although she and Dr. Griebl did nothing and heard nothing more about it, they continued to visit Berlin night spots and absorb champagne at the German Government's expense. Miss Moog's prolonged account of this so vexed long-legged Judge Knox that he finally slapped the bench, barked: "Stop that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Spy Business | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...Turrou, who resigned last summer. 15 minutes later contracted to write a newspaper series (never published) on the spy plot. Seamy-faced Mr. Turrou last week told the jury how he spied on the spies. Defense Attorney George C. Dix asked Mr. Turrou whether he had inquired of Dr. Griebl: "How much will it be worth to you not to be sentenced to prison as a German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Spy Business | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Lawyer Dix consulted a deposition taken from Dr. Griebl in Berlin, shot back: "Didn't he say 'I think I could raise $5,000 cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Spy Business | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Judge Knox cautioned Lawyer Dix not to make speeches to the jury. "I want to show," replied jury-minded Mr. Dix, "that there was a conspiracy to allow Griebl to escape and to frame these smaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Spy Business | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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