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 ''centered on Harry Gold as our best suspect, and on May 22, he admitted extensive espionage activity in the United States. Also on May 22, 1950, Fuchs tentatively identified motion pictures of Gold which were shown to him as his espionage co. Fuchs, on the following day, definitely identified the photographs of Gold. Gold was arrested on May 23, 1950, and on June 9, 1950, by a Federal Grand Jury in the Eastern  of New York. He pled guilty to this indictment and on 9, 1950, Judge James P. McGranery in Philadelphia sentenced  to thirty years imprisonment, less the time served since his plea of guilty on July 20, 1950.''



''One of the persons named by Harry Gold was Alfred Slack. On the basis of information from Gold, Slack was on June 15, 1940, at which time he admitted his  activities and admitted he had furnished to Gold a sample of  formula for the explosive "EDI' while Slack was employed by  Holston Ordnance Works, Kingsport, Tennessee, in 1944. Slack  indicted in the Eastern District of Tennessee on June 15,, pled guilty, and on September 22, 1950, he was sentenced to fifteen years by Judge Robert L. Taylor at Greeneville, .''



''Another individual identified by Gold as active in espionage for the Soviets was Thomas L. Black. Gold was initiated into the Soviet espionage activity by Black, a chemist, in 1935. In an interview on June 20, 1950, Black admitted becoming involved with the Soviets in 1934 in activities under Gaik. B. Ovakimian, a Soviet espionage agent had operated in the United States and who was arrested by  Agents in New York City on May, 5, 1941 and later charged  violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. ( departed from the United States on July 23, 1941, as a negotiations between the United States Government and the  Union.) Black has admitted working fro Ovakimian and a  other Soviet espionage superiors. The full facts concerning Black have been furnished to the Criminal Division of the  of Justice. The Department stated that Black's in espionage are not such as to charge him with transmitting  relating to the national defense. The Department considering the prosecution o Black for failure to register''