ABSTRACT
The dispatch from Lucerne appeared in the London Daily Telegraph of 3rd November, 1953: German-born Rudolph Roessler, fifty-six, a spy for Russia during the Second World War, said in a Lucerne court that he had organized an ‘information service’ for Czechoslovakia between 1947 and 1953. That Roessler was “a spy for Russia during the Second World War” gains significance from the judgment of the Swiss Federal Criminal Court at Lucerne of 5th November, 1953, which found that “Roessler (then) supplied part of his information to the ‘Red Orchestra’, viz. the Soviet secret service.” Six years earlier the members of the Soviet spy ring in war-time Switzerland had been in the news. The Soviets proved in the last war that they were masters of espionage by infiltration.
