The Archive · 1940

Saboteurs Activ In America

Chief of G-Men Warns of Al to Wreck Defence — Measures, Utilities

Washington, Aug. 6 The Federal Bureau of Investigation has revealed acts of sabotage against the United States' national defence programme. stated Mr. J Edgar Hoover. chief of the G-men. "Saboteurs, he said, had put em dust in aeroplane engines and destructive metal in the motive power of naval vessels. Chemicals in boilers im order to create their wholesale Subyersive agents, be conducted schools for teaching the "most terrible means of creating destruction.". He recommended that every city in the United States should survey utility undertakings tg ensure the maximum protection because the "demoralization of cities by means of a water famine has already been used by totalitarian saboteurs.—Reuter.

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