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WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1954
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE SEVENTEEN
Australian Judges Conduct
Probe Of Red Spy Ring
MELBOURNE, Australia Wl
The Jigsaw of Soviet spying in
Australia is being slowly put to
gether before the royal commis
sion of three Judges sitting here In
Melbourne.
The pace of this royal commis
sion on espionage has proved pain
fully slow to Australians', who had
expected- sensation packed on sen
sation once Vladimir Petrov went
Into the witness box.
Petrov, who lied his post as third
secretary at the Russian Embassy
in Canberra, says he also was the
chief Red spy in Australia. His
request for political asylum start
ed a chain of events that led to
Russia breaking diplomatic rela
tions with Australia.
Petrov, 47. short and plump, and
his small, honey-blonde wife Evok
ia, 40, both have spent many hours
in the witness box. But they have
given only a small part of their
evidence because the inquiry has
been split Into what William J. v.
School Girl
Murdered
JOLIET. 111. W! A 19-year-old
Jollet high school girl was found
strangled and shot to death Tues
day in an automobile abandoned
cn a lovers' lane Just outside the
city limits. .
Authorities said the car's owner
was missing.
Sheriff Roy Doerfler said Doris
Bogart, an attractive brunette, ap
parently was slain while resisting
sexual advances.
Coroner Willard Blood reported
that the girl had been dead at
least 18 hours before her partly
decomposed body was spotted by
a farmer passing alongthe lonely
country road.
Noting marks on her throat, the
coroner first expressed the opinion
that Miss Bogart had died of
strangulation. Later he said a post
mortem showed she also had been
shot.
Numerous scratches on the body
and the disarranged condition of
Miss Bogarfs blue Jeans and un
derclothing led authorities to be
lieve she died while fighting off a
rapist.
Doerfler said the car's owner
ship hail been traced to Donald
Stefanich, a 39-year-old bachelor,
of Joliet, but that officers had
been unable to find him.
Authorities theorized that Miss
Bogart was slain at some other
spot and her body then driven to
the lovers' lane.
The dead girl's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ronald Bogart of Joliet, are
on vacation and have not been
notified, the sheriff said, the moth
er and father were to have left
Port Orchard, Wash., Tuesday.
Windeyer, senior counsel assisting
the commission, called compart
ments. The idea is to fit cleanly Into
one piece the pattern of Soviet
espionage and to give any person
named as a Soviet helper an op
portunity to get quickly into the
witness box and tell his side of
the story. Only two Australians
have been named as helpers so
far.
Petrov disclosed Russia had a
special directorate in Moscow for
technical and atomic espionage
and described the system by which
Russians serving in official posi
tions outside Russia are watched
by secret police who report back
to Moscow.
Petrov said both he and his wife
had come to Australia with orders
to recruit agents. He said money
was paid to some Australians who
supplied information to the Soviet
intelligence system. Some Austral
ians, he said, were given code
names by Moscow.
On Pelrov's fifth day In the box.
the evidence turned to money and
Australians pricked up their ears.
Petrov told the commission he re
ceived 5.000 pounds ($11,250) from
Deputy Director of Australian Se
curity Richards on April 3, the
day he left the Russian service.
Newspaper headlines reflected Au
stralian surprise.
The same day Petrov and his
wife gave evidence about their pay
checks. The size of these was an
even bigger surprise to Austral
ians. Petrov said as an officer of the
Soviet Internal Affairs Ministry's
secret police, his salary at the be
ginning of 1954 was more than 4.000
rubles $1,000 per month. This
was four or five times the earn
ings of a skilled Australian trades
man. Petrov said he was paid 101
pounds ($227.25) in Australian
money and the rest was deposited
for him in Moscow.
Following her husband into the
box, Mrs. Petrov said her salary
was the equivalent of 3,240 pounds
($7,290) a year. Australians quick
ly added the husband's and wife's
salaries to total over 8,000 pounds
($17,000) a year. Only a handful
of Australians earn that much
money.
The end of the commission is not
yet in sight and the sittings pos
sibly will continue into next year.
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