SECRET AGENTS ARRIVE IN AMERICA
time head of the
"Friends
of
79
Germany,"
through
whom
the
propaganda was distributed to various branches of the organiza
tion throughout the country. In those days Orgell lived at 606
West i i5th Street, New York City,f and was ostensibly employed
as an electrical engineer by the Raymond Roth Co., 25 West
Street. Let me illustrate how he worked:
At twenty minutes to ten on the evening of March 16, 1934,
the North German Lloyd "Europa" was preparing to sail at
midnight. The gaily illuminated boat was filled with men and
45th
in evening dress, seeing friends off to Europe.
stewards, all of them members of the ship s Nazi Gruppe,
women, many
German
stood about smiling, bowing, but watching every passenger and
visitor carefully.
People wandered all over the boat. Many visited the library
on the main promenade deck, which has a German post office.
There was a great deal of laughter and chatter. Orgell, dressed in
an ordinary business suit and carrying a folded newspaper in his
hands, wandered in. Catching the post office steward s eye, he
casually took four letters from his coat pocket and handed them
to the steward who as casually slipped them into his pocket.
There were no stamps on the letters, which, incidentally, consti
tuted a federal offense.
Still so casual in manner that the average observer would not
even have noticed the transfer of the letters, Orgell wandered
over to a desk in the library and rapidly wrote another letter-
so important, apparently, that he dared not carry it with him
for fear of a mishap. The letter was sealed and handed to the
steward.
The
had a great many visitors. No one seemed to be
attention to this visitor or passenger talking to the
paying any
steward. With a quick glance around him, Orgell took in every
library
one in the library and seemed
f
He now
lives at
Great
satisfied.
Kills, Staten Island,
He
N. Y.
caught the steward
s