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Quite correctly you state that when Petersen pleaded guilty, it was to the charge that he had used secret documents "in a manner prejudicial to the safety and interest of the U.S." This now is entirely a different matter...
...Petersen Case Sir: As a faithful reader of your magazine, your Jan. 3 article "Espionage"-about Joseph Sydney Petersen...
First of all you write that Petersen was accused of spying for The Netherlands. Let me assure you, sir, that Petersen never spied for The Netherlands, and that he never received any remuneration from my country...
...agents also said that the tip-off on Petersen had come via the Baranes spy case (TIME, Oct. 11) in France. The French government, infiltrated by Communists, got some of Petersen's secrets from the Dutch...
...Petersen's guilty plea last week was to the charge that he had "used" secret documents "in a manner prejudicial to the safety and interest of the U.S." (i.e., he had stored the papers in his apartment). By admitting guilt on one count of his indictment, he would avoid a trial that might, according to a top official, probe embarrassingly into details of an "emotional involvement" with a person to whom he fed information. In return, the U.S. agreed to drop two other counts, thus saving itself and The Netherlands the further embarrassment of having to prove that Petersen...