Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-06 | Page 2 | Moscow Paper Accuses Pope as Head of School for Spies

Moscow Paper Accuses Pope As Head of School for Spies MOSCOW, Aug, Trp) Trveatia, official government organ, accused the pope today of maintaining a spy school and lupplying sDiea in states bordering on Russia. service of our western neighboring state had systematically supplied these Catholic priests with Instructions." Instruc-tions." Izvestia also said similar groups in other cities had been revealed. "The organizations were exposed and liquidated and their members condemned." the paper said. Tbe newspaper revealed that numerous nu-merous espionage trials of priests are in progress or impending and Indicated that death penalties will be imposed. The Isvestia article was signed by B. Kandidov It said: 'The head of the Roman Catholic church does not confine himself to antisoviet attacks. There exists in Rome a special school, 'Russicum,' in which unemployed white guards are trained as spies and antisoviet propagandists. "This Institution supplies agents to the secret services of a number of states bordering our eastern and western frontiers." The article continued: 'The active participation of priests in enlisting terrorists and saboteurs has been revealed by the military collegium of the supreme court in Investigating cases of monarchists mon-archists and terrorists. . . . "Catholic apies are no less active i than their orthodox brethren. Trials of tbe Polish priests, Skalskl, Slos-: Slos-: kan, Sokolovski, Lovensko, and othsra have shown that the secret