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is
apparently a prolific writer of bad checks and of long
about his activities to his superiors.
reports
Two of Allen s close friends are also native Americans: C. F.
Ingalls of 2702 Bush St., San Francisco and George Deatherage
(the G. D. mentioned earlier)
Deatherage now lives and
out of St. Albans, W. Va. He organized the American
operates
Nationalist Confederation which used to have its headquarters
Allen
.
Both these gentlemen
Palo Alto, Calif.
Schwinn.
in
On
January
7,
a letter signed
address.
The
1938, Deatherage received
also
work with
from San Francisco
in a plain envelope without a return
very long and detailed. I quote in part:
"C.F.I."
letter
is
We
must get busy organizing grid-lattice-work or skeleton for a military
throughout the nation, and in this we need representatives of fascist
groups, and we need Americans with whom these others may be incorporated.
staff
... All must believe in being ruthless in an emergency.
The political and the military organizations must not be unified. They
have different aims. With one hand we offer the public a potential program.
Whether they accept it or not and whether they wish to return to the ideals
embodied in a representative form of a constitutional federal republic or not,
.
is
of secondary importance.
Of
first
importance
is
.
.
the need of the emergency
military organization to function simultaneously should our enemies revolt if
we should win politically or should we revolt if our enemies win politically.
On
January 19, 1938, Deatherage received a letter signed with
the code name "Laura and Clayton." "Laura" is Hermann
Schwinn. This letter, too, is long and goes into details on how
best to organize the secret military group and have it ready for
instant action. The letter states at one point:
all this, now then we shall have the national military frame
steamed up and oiled and coupled to the multiplicity of working
parts ready to appear on all fronts.
After
work
we do
all
.
After
"C.F.I."
and
"Laura
details of the secret military
of
"Nazi
and
fascist"
forces,
.
.
had decided on the
which they needed the aid
body
they needed money and arms.
and
Clayton"
in