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Germany." Jung likewise discovered the "menace of the Jew"
and peddled it for all it was worth.
There was an air of secrecy about the whole outfit. Even the
location of the office in the Chicago Tribune Tower was kept
from the membership; all they were given was the post office box
number. As soon as he collected enough material from the Daily
Worker and other Communist publications, he sent agents to
call on the gullible businessmen with horrendous stories of the
Muscovites now on the high seas on their way to capture the
American Government. The salesmen collected and in turn got
of
forty per cent of the pickings.
When Jung heard that William
Dudley Pelley was making
on the Jew-and-Catholic scare and that others like Edward
money
H. Hunter of the Industrial Defense Association were talking
with the German Consul General about getting money from
for propaganda, he got busy peddling "The Protocols
Armed with
Zion," long discredited as forgeries.
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salesmen scoured the country, collect
these, Jung high pressure
Germany
of the Elders of
ing shekels from Christian businessmen and getting their forty
per cent commissions.
It was not long before Jung, Pelley and others were working
in full swing with secret Nazi agents sent into this country for
propaganda and espionage purposes.