Show Round Merry r Moscow Methods 1 Reflected in Phone Tapping I B By Drew Pearson V WASHINGTON WASHINGTON How How far tar the capital of the supposedly free United States has hay 1 adopted Moscow's police state methods is la lashown 1 shown in a n highly confidential report on 1 l' l wire tapping which long has gathered dust dustIn in the files of the Justice department t The facts in this wire-tapping wire scandal j read l like ke a detective story One of the most lurid wire-tapping wire jobs was on th the Argentine ambassador Jeronimo and Nina Lunn Luttrell granddaughter of ot Senator ex-Senator Wallace Vallace White of or Maine ne The most interesting thing about this eavesdropping Is that it is done by the metropolitan police at the expense of ot the I ta taxpayers payers Since the District of Columbia f Is a federal area all the ta taxpayers payers from i Seattle to Miami help to pay for this thin 1 divorce orce case wire-tapping wire on the governments government's governments government's govern govern- J ments ment's time I In the case of ot the Argentine ambassador Lieutenant Joseph Shimon who did the tho I wire tapping was paid not net only his regular police salary but by the husband of Nina Lunn While peeping at the Argentine Argentine Argen Argen- tine ambassador of course Lieutenant i I Shimon Shimen was supposed to be enforcing law lawand lawand lawand and order in the District District of Columbia But Buthe Buthe Buthe he Dope Peddler Hired Hired Here Here is the inside j j story of what happened Lieutenant Shimon I Iwas was hired by Nathaniel Luttrell part owner j of the Woodward and Lothrop department store who suspected his wife of outside romancing When Luttrell heard that the police lieutenant was going to tap telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone wires he asked Shimon if this wasn't illegal to which Shimon replied Not Net if its it's your own telephone j a Since Mrs Irs Luttrell had an eyed eagle-eyed I Japanese butler who it was vas feared might discover the phone tap Mr Luttrell actually purchased a heu house e next to his estate In Virginia where Lieutenant Shimon set u up P his wire tapping apparatus In this way he learned that Mrs Irs Luttrell Luttrell Luttrell Lut Lut- trell better known in Washington as Nina Lunn was going to keep a rendezvous with Ithe j I the Argentine ambassador at the apartment apartment apart apart- j ment of a friend at and Q street in Georgetown The friend was in Germany and Lieutenant Shimon hired Jimmy Mercurio Mercurio Mer- Mer curio an ex dope peddler to break in in advance Mercurio however couldn't pick the lock and had to remove a pane of ot glass from the window All this was done before the Argentine ambassador and Miss Lunn arrived Shortly after their arrival the police lieutenant came in through the window which had been unlocked earlier and took a flash photo of the envoy envey extraordinary and ambassador ambassador ambassador am am- plenipotentiary of the republic of Argentina in a somewhat undraped condi condi- tion tien Later Mr r. Luttrell got a divorce It happens to be a criminal offense to 1 intrude upon or touch the person of an ambassador so Lieutenant Shimon probably probably probably ably could have been sent to jail had Ambassador Ambassador Am Am- protested Apparently he was too embarrassed to protest though he did fight a duel in Buenos Aires with Foreign Minister when his honor was questioned The embarrassment of the Argentine ambassador however is not worrying many Washingtonians What they are concerned about is that the above wire tapping case Is not net an isolated instance of police eaves eaves- dropping It is only part of a series of ot wire-tapping wire cases |