Tokyo police let WWII Soviet spy remain at large

Tokyo police let WWII Soviet spy remain at large

LONDON, Britain - File photo shows Richard Sorge, a wartime Soviet spy based in Japan. According to a U.S. document from a British MI5 file released to the public July 5 in London, Tokyo police let Sorge remain at large to decode ciphers he and other agents were using before they arrested him in October 1941. Sorge entered Japan as a correspondent for the German daily Frankfurter Zeitung.

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