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One
who
of the other early propagandists
"patriot"
is still
active as a
was Edward H. Hunter, Executive Secretary of the
Industrial Defense Association, Inc., 7 Water Street, Boston.
Early in 1934, while the negotiations for the merging of the
espionage order and the Silver Shirts were going on, this rooter
American
for
this
liberty
heard Germany was spending money in
3, he wrote to the "Friends of
country and on March
Germany":
separate cover
"Under
we
are sending you twenty-five copies
and you may have as
of
wish.
you
many
"Several times I have conferred with Dr. Tippelskirch and at
one time suggested that if he could secure the financial backing
of our
Swan Song
Hate
as requested
as
from Germany, I could
would be very effective.
"All
that
organize
the
Judaism and
start
a real campaign along lines that
necessary to return America to Americans is to
many thousands of persons who are victims of
I am ready to do that at any time."
is
Dr. Tippelskirch, with
from Germany
whom Hunter
for anti-semitic work,
discussed getting
money
was the German Consul in
Boston.
The
activities of the early agents ranged from propaganda to
smuggling and espionage, though at the beginning the espionage
was on a minor
scale. It took several years of organizing proin this country before they could pick the most
reliable for the more dangerous spy work. Much of the propa
German groups
ganda was sent in openly through the mails, but some of it was
of so vicious and anti-democratic character that the Propaganda
Ministry in Germany decided it was wiser to smuggle it in from
Nazi ships.
One
*
of the chief smugglers was Guenther Orgell,* at that
Following passage of the new 1938 law requiring all foreign agents
with the State Department as a German agent.
register, Orgell registered
to