[4] According to Rees, he became a "communist sympathizer" during World War II and began supplying oil industry trade secrets to the USSR in 1942.
[2] In addition, he said he supplied Soviet agents with designs for a petroleum plant, natural gas processes and pressurized holding tanks.
[5][6] Ten hours after the story was published, Rees died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
[7][8] In the aftermath, newspapers debated whether the threat of suicide should supersede the right of the journalist to publish the story.
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