DYNAMITE UNDER MEXICO
in Acapulco,
fascinates the Japanese. He used to
Cedillo just before the General started
March 4, 1938, Northe took off "for a vacation"
whose harbor
make frequent
his rebellion.
51
visits to
On
Panama Canal Zone. He stopped off in Guatemala on
the way down.
The persistently vacationing commercial attache, before com
ing to Mexico, was part of the Gestapo network in Moscow and
in the
Immediately after the Nazis got control of Germany,
Northe went into the German "diplomatic service," and was one
of the first secret agents sent to the German Embassy in Moscow.
The Russian secret service apparently watched him a little too
closely, for he was shifted to Sofia, Bulgaria, where he bought a
private plane and flew wherever he wished. In 1935, when the
Bulgaria.
signers of the "anti-Communist pact" decided to concentrate
upon Mexico, Northe was transferred to Mexico City.
One of Northe s chief aids is a German adventurer who was a
spy during the
World War. When
the
War
ended, Hans Hein-
von
Holleuffer, of 36 Danubio St., Mexico City, worked hard
at earning a dishonest
penny in Republican Germany. When the
rich
law got after him, he skipped to Mexico, where, without even
pausing for breath, he went to work on his fellow countrymen
in the New World. Berlin asked for his arrest and extradition v
and von Holleuffer fled to Guatemala. That was in 1926. He
came back to Mexico in 1931 under the name of Hans Helbing.
When
Hitler got into power von Holleuffer s brother-in-law
official in the Gestapo. Since there was no danger
became a high
him on charges of fraud and forgery,
Hans Helbing became Hans Heinrich von Holleuffer again and,
without any visible means of support, established a swanky resi
of the Nazis extraditing
dence at the above address, got an expensive automobile, a
chauffeur, and some very good-looking maids. Since he has not
defrauded anyone lately, the German colony in Mexico still
wonders how he does it.