A German broadcast today reporting that the first American correspondent captured in the invasion area was James W. Lee of Oklahoma, identified by the German radio as war correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, provoked much puzzlement here since the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has no correspondent named Lee.
The passport division of the State Department in Washington said that no passport has even been issued in the name of James W. Lee. Neither the War Department nor the State Department have any record of an American journalist of that name being accredited as a war correspondent to any American military unit in Europe.
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