VI
Secret Agents Arrive in America
S
INTEREST IN THE
GERMANY Japan joined
only after
PANAMA CANAL became
the Rome-Berlin axis
"to
acute
exchange
information about Communism" an exchange which appears to
be more concerned with military secrets than with Communism.
The
Japanese and Nazi agents in Latin American
countries and especially around the Canal, the organizing of a
fascist rebellion in Mexico to the south of us and intensive propa
ganda carried on in Canada to the north, are but part of the
activities of
broad invasion of the Western Hemisphere by the Fifth Column
an invasion which began almost immediately after Hitler got
into power. Since the United States is the most important coun
try in the Americas, it was and is subject to special concentra
tion by secret Nazi agents.
The
first
propaganda
ties.
threads spun spread out in
as the base
to
many
directions, with
broaden espionage
activi
One
of the earliest of the secret agents sent to this country
American, Colonel Edwin Emerson, soldier of fortune,
was an
mediocre author and
son lived at
office
from which
in
competent war correspondent. Emer
215 East 15th Street, New York City and had an
Room
fairly
1923 at 17 Battery Place, the address of the
German Consulate General. Room 1923 was rented by a repre
sentative of the German Consul General. The rent paid was.
nominal and in
at least
one instance, to avoid
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its
being traced,