SECRET AGENTS ARRIVE IN AMERICA
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Bante, at the time he was engaged in the smuggling
was a member of the 244th Coast Guard as well as
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In the early days of organizing the Nazi web over the United
States, the German agents received cooperation from racketeering
who saw possibilities of scaring the wits out of the
"patriots"
American people by announcing that the "revolution" was just
around the corner. The country was in an economic crisis, the
American people were bewildered and didn t know which way to
turn, there was considerable unrest in the land, and the Nazi
agents and their American counterparts visualized in Hitler s cry
that "Communism and the Jews" were responsible, grand pickings
from the scared suckers.
Communism, especially in those restless days in the
of the depression, was the bugaboo of the rich, it was
depths
inevitable that some unscrupulous but shrewd observers of the
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American scene would take advantage of this fear and capital
ize on it. One of the chief racketeers, a man who subsequently
worked very closely with secret Nazi agents in this country, was
Harry A. Jung, Honorary General Manager of the American
Vigilant Intelligence Federation, Post Office
Box
144, Chicago.
This organization was originally founded to spy on Communists
and Socialists. For a while Jung collected from terrified em
ployers by promising to inform them about the threat of revolu
tionwhat time it would occur and who would lead it. In return
he collected plenty.
In time employers got fed up when the rowboat loaded with
bomb-throwing Bolsheviks failed to arrive from Moscow. Pick
ings became slim. Jung was badly in need of a new terrorwith which to collect from the suckers. He
inspiring
found it at the time Emerson was sent here from Germany.
Gulden, Pelley and their associates were launching an anti"issue"
semitic
campaign
as the first step to attract
people to the
"Friends