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Ld Ct a ne Tad ©” HE TOLD HliitR ALL 1 OUR WAR SECRETS GERMANY, in the early days of the war, knew the exact strength of our fighting forces, their disposi- tions, in inventory of war materials, our prospective r war p ction and our strategic plans—through TY LERAKENT, & code clerk at the United States Embassy in London. ° Last night, for the first time the full story of the activitie | of this traitor—now serving seven years’ penal servitude in British Jail—wag revealed by | * MR. JOSEPH. KENNEDY, American Ambassador at the tim Mr. Kennedy ‘said: “In the period after Britain had declared [——— ~~ war Mr. Churchill was very com- | | plete in revealing to me, and / through me to Mr. Roosevelt, Britain's unpreparedness. “Mr. Churchill and other high British officials gave me the whole picture—figures on Britain's land, sea and air forces, the dis- position of British units every where, Britain’s home inventory of War materials, her prospective war peoduction, and the fundamenta off Britain’s strategic plans.. Terrible Damage “Week by week these were fo warded to Mr, Roosevelt in an ‘unbreakable’ code. . “We had to assume that week by week this same data went to Berlin vie Kent, “As a code clerk Kent had the unbreakable code book at his elbow and that 1s what did terrible damage.” Mr. Eennedy disclosed that because of Kent's arrest, America's diplomatic commulincations throughout the world were blacked cut in the weeks before the fall of France. t The black-out lasted from two to six weeks, until couriers had f reached the embassies with ne nf AN a ‘ \ codes, Kent transmitted his inform tion via Italy and Mr, Kenned vA \" said that Italy might have bech ordered to stay out of the war f 14 months because of her useful- ; ess to Germany as a transmission ej for information. Beans Spilled He emphasised that Italy did hot go to war untill after Kent's ‘ arrest. , (Seorlend verd found copies of 0 documents locked in a strong rT ow | , Gale fs ACT l box in Kent's rooms OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE ' “The beans were spilled " when | PME." "AN EMBASSY ‘the Italian Embassy telephoned . re Kent’s rooms while Scotland Yard LONDON, ENGLAND . imen and United States Embassy . ” officials were there. aI7 — 276 $0 3 A- "ne fo. If America had been at war, Mr. “ Kennedy added, he would have : ; recommended that Kent be sent a , bagk to America to be shot. INDEXED 6% opp ju i944 tray r, Kennedy waived diplomatic C ' j , -“imyhunity with the approval of ,ergs a Ad ‘thal State Department and turned ae rP 2. 1 Wy ‘Kept over to the British authori- $0003 oe —— tles.—Reuter. xy Zot