of the Council of People's Commissars of the Republic of the Ukraine and former Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain, who is accused of being a Japanese spy. gave evidence at this afternoon's hearing.
He declared that he had been blackmailed into becoming a Japanese spy by a letter which M. Piatakov, former Assistant Commissar of Heavy Industries, persuaded him to deliver to M. Konstantin Yurenev, in 1934, when M. Ywreney was the (Continued on page 11)
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