SECRET ARMIES
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of Deputies. Iturbe
in Mexico City.
is
in constant touch with the fascist groups
The Gold Shirts smuggled arms into Mexico along the border
between Laredo and Brownsville, and cached them in Monterrey.
On January 31,
Gold Shirts attempted to attack Matamoros,
Mexican policeman was killed and another
wounded in the fighting. Two days later Gold Shirts surrounded
Reynosa, some distance west of Matamoros, but met peasants
armed with rifles, pistols and knives. The fascists withdrew
and Rodriguez vanished, only to appear in San Diego, California,
1938,
near Brownsville.
on February
A
1938 for a secret meeting with Plutarco Elias
Calles, the former President of Mexico. After a three-hour con
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ference Rodriguez went to Los Angeles, met Schwinn, and pro
ceeded to Mission, Texas, where he established new headquarters.
A few days after these conferences, he sent two men into Mexico
under forged passports
to discuss closer cooperation
The men
among
the
Mexico were an American
named Mario Baldwin, one of Rodriguez s chief assistants, and
a Mexican named Sanchez Yanez. They established headquarters
at 31
Joaquin Herrera, apartment i-T, and met for their
fascist leaders.
sent into
Jose"
secret conferences in Jesus
de Avila s
tailor
shop at 22 Isabel
la
Catolico,
In the
latter part of June, 1935, an amiable bar fly arrived in
as civilian attache" to the German Lega
Mexico City from Berlin
A civilian attache is the lowest grade in the diplomatic
ranks and the salary is just about enough to keep him going.
Nevertheless, Dr. Heinrich Northe, at that time not quite thirty,
tion.
somewhat luxurious
and bought a private airplane for "pleas
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ure jaunts" about Mexico. Northe is seldom at the Nazi Lega
tion. He is more apt to be found in Sonora, where Yocupicio
is storing arms and where the Japanese fishing fleet is active, or
and not
place at
especially well-to-do, established a
St.