SECRET ARMIES
88
could buy them cheaper and resell at a higher price. Jung, in
turn, introduced Armstrong to Nazi agents.
Jung and the ex-convict hit it up. Before long Armstrong be
came Jung s
No. 31 (Jung
secret agent
his letters to agents with that number.
their numbers. They are not supposed
but every once in a while an agent
script in his
own
handwriting.
is No. i and always
signs
His agents, too, sign only
even to write the number
slips
up and
A reproduction
scribbles a post
of one of No. 31*5
appears on the opposite page.)
It was not long after Jung introduced Armstrong to Nazi
agents that the White Russian decided that he could work the
reports to the No.
He
racket himself.
i
Guy
began to meet
secretly
with Nazi agents with
out telling Jung about it. Their favorite meeting place was at
Von Thenen s Tavern, 2357 Roscoe St., Chicago. Present at
these meetings, usually called by Fritz Gissibl, head of the
of the New Germany," * were Armstrong, Captain Vic
tor DeKayville, J. K. Leibl (who organized an underground Nazi
"Friends
clique in South Bend, Ind.), Oscar Pfaus, Nick Mueller, Toni
Mueller, Jose Martini, Franz Schaeffer and Gregor Buss. When
attend, his right-hand man Leibl acted for him.
In March, 1936, Armstrong and the others decided to establish
Gissibl couldn
a
t
"National Alliance"
to aid in Nazi work.
They decided
to use
the utmost secrecy lest what they were doing and who were be
hind it, leak out. They met only in private homes and so careful
were they that the host of one meeting would not be told where
the next meeting was to be held. Only a picked handful of the
most trusted Nazi agents were invited.
The
meeting was held at Bockhold s home, 1235 Waveland Ave., Chicago; the second at the home of Mrs. Emma
Schmid, 4710 Winthrop Ave., Chicago. To the second meeting
first
they invited C. O. Anderson of 601 Diversey Parkway, Chicago.
* Gissibl left for
Stuttgart,
brother, Peter.
Germany, and leadership was taken over by
his