FRANCE
S
SECRET FASCIST
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names of Farmer and Meihert. De Potters
from the Nazis strongly guarded "Bureau III
passports under the
gets his funds
B,"
established in Berne, Switzerland at 21 Gewerbestrasse.
III
B"
is
head of
"Bureau
name of this branch of the Gestapo. At the
Boris Toedli whose activities include not only
the official
it
is
espionage but underground diplomatic intrigue and propaganda.
He works directly under Drs. Rosenberg and Goebbels. Toedli
supplies not only the Baron but other espionage directors with
money and there is plenty of it at his disposal for quick emer
gency uses. The money is deposited in the Societe des Banques
Suisses,
account No. 60941.
The head
of the Italian espionage system directing the work
in France and cooperating closely with the Nazis is Commendatore Boccalaro,
head of the Italian Government
s
Arsenal in
One
of his specialties is the smuggling of arms into for
eign countries.
Boccalaro s history shows that the not so fine Italian hand
Genoa.
interfering in the internal affairs of foreign governments. As
far back as 1928, he secretly supplied carloads of arms from the
Genoa Arsenal to Hungary, and in 1936 he supplied Yugoslavian
is
terrorists with war materials in efforts to get those countries
under Mussolini s sphere of influence. Boccalaro, too, seems to
have had reasons to suppress information in at least one case
where the death penalty was inflicted upon a member of the
Cagoulards.
Hooded Ones who have been found with bullets
or knives in them was an arms runner named Adolphe-Augustin
a little more
Juif, who tried to charge the secret organization
Among
the
than he should for smuggling guns and munitions into France.
the organization threatened him, he advised it not to resort
to threats because he knew a little too much.
On February 8, 1937, his bullet-riddled body was found in
When