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Four days later in Berlin the Gestapo arrested Manhattan-born United Press Correspondent Richard C. Hottelet, charged him with spying for an "enemy power," refused to let either the U. S. Embassy or United Press communicate with him. Nazi officials, who said that any further information would come out in the trial, made a special point of denying that Hottelet's arrest was a reprisal for the indictment of Dr. Zapp. Washington thought differently. President Roosevelt promptly instructed the U. S. Embassy in Berlin to investigate to the hilt.