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Article: ANONYMOUS LETTER PUT FBI ONTO SOVIET SPIES.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 4, 1996
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During World War II, when the FBI was concentrating on uncovering spies working for the Axis enemies, Germany and Japan, Director J. Edgar Hoover received an anonymous letter whose sensational allegations altered the direction of U.S. counterespionage investigations.
Made public by intelligence agencies yesterday, the August 1943 letter alleged that a husband and wife team of Soviet diplomats were spies, not only for Moscow - then a U.S. ally - but for Germany and Japan as well.
The unsigned letter dropped in a mailbox near the Soviet embassy alleged that Vassili Zarubin, a second secretary in the Soviet embassy, was a senior KGB officer. But there was ...