AUTHOR URGES DEATH PENALTY FOR PEACETIME ESPIONAGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100090063-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: February 28, 1954
• Content Type: NSPR

SAN DIEGO (Calif.) UNION FEBRUARY 28, 1954
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STUDENTS HEAR SPYvHUNTER
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
Author Urges Death-Penalty
fEspionage
An amendment to the Con-
titution providing for the
eath penalty for peacetime
spionage was advocated
sere by an anti-spy expert.
"A cold war is as bad as a
hooting war," Kurt Singer
aid in an interew. "We can
ontrol the sprrd of Com-
nunist underground opera-
ions only by enacting the
post stringent laws."
Author .o eral books
on courier age activi-
ties, the `lat which is
"The Men in the Trojan
Horse," Singer ; delivered a
series of lectures to high
school groups In the San
Diego area.
Singer said President Ei-
senhower is aware of the
tYlreat to the nation's se-
curity. He said espionage
should be a treasonable of-
fense "even when we are"
not at war."
"The . fight to curtail , the
Communist menace. should
be carried on in the courts
and not by congressional com-
mittees," Singer said. We
must strike the anti-Aniek
can forces where it hurt!
and that can only be ac-
complished in the' courts.
"The anti-Communist! .cana-
CPYRGHT
paign, should be removed
from the political sphere.
Constant bickering among
the various political parties
is undermining this drive."
Singer said there are at
least 5,000 "sitters" in this
country -active Communist
sympathizers who can exe-
cute orders from the Krem-
lin whenever they are given
the word. The potential
strength of anti-Americans is
about 600,000 "fellow trav-
elers."
Singer described atom
spies Julius and Ethel Rosen-
berg as "fanatic Commu-
nists" who declined to "com-
promise their beliefs even to
save their lives."
S pr was high in his
praise` of FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover and Allan
We Dulles, chief. o f the
entral i li encc AenenccYe.
ees, ormrr ea in
Europe during World War ft
and brother of State Secy.
Dulles 'has -or anized a grow-
ing force of rained experts
'the unsung, tight-lipped
heroes' of thin' nation"-t
o o hi b, at. Communist in
fluences, Singer said.
A native of Vienna', Singe
sent most of --, tta - 'years i
KURT SINGER
Speaks At High. Schools
Scandinavian countries and
has since become an Ameri-
can citizen. During World
War II, he served with the
Scandinavian underground.
His services also were uti-
lized by the U.S. Army, in-
telligence. and other branches
of the government.
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