Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-11-18
5000 SPIES
IN AMERICA
He CHARGES
Government viii Ask Congress
to Amend Laws to Enable
Authorities to Punish
Foreign Offenders.
LAUGH AT NEUTRALITY
Goricar Enlarges Upon Revela.
lions Of Austro German Sys-
tem-Secret Service to
Be strengthened.

w dSnlnGtOn. NOV. lS.-COnsreSS Will
be asked at its coming session to re-
wise the federal neutrality laws. This
is one Of the steps decided upon by the
administration to enable the depart
ment Of justice to deal more effectively
with offenses against the United States,
growing out of the war. Prosecution
of such offenses. under existing laws,
virtually has been found impossible.
Under the Sherman law, state courts
are powerless to act in conspiracies OK
prosecuted only in the federal court.
Legislation may also be sought to
enlarge the powers Of the secret ser
vice. to enable 1t I'd cope with condi-
tions growing out of the war and the
interests of the belligerent govern
nents in the United States.
System Behind II All.
More light has been brought to bear
upon the various conspiracies. by an
additional statement attributed to DR..
Josef Goricar. former Austrian consul
at San Francisco, who charges tho
German and Austrian embassies are
directing the work of foreign spies IN
the United States. He is quoted as
saying:
II will state further that no act of
violence. whether it be a fire in a mu-
nitions factory, the explosion of q bomb
on board a ship, or the establishment
of a fraudulent passport office, springs
from the demented mind of any single
Individual. Every act is planned in
advance, men who can be trusted to
go through with such criminal per-
fOrmances are selected in advance, and
the whole scheme Is worked through
the system. Individuals are simply
u, fp1rNvSN
above.
Direct Spies. He Charges.
l5 years, experience in. the for
eign service os Austria Hungary has
given me exact knowledge of this spy
X system, which Is directed by the Ger
man embassy through Captaip Boy
I'd and Captain Won Papen, acting di-
rectly with Consul General Won Nuber
in New York. These three men have
full and complete knowledge Of every
move made by every German and Aus
trian spy in the United States In spite
of their assertions that they are inno-
cent of any wrongdoing or any knoWl-
edge of munition plants or of wrecking
of ships, they are in immediate breach
with every transaction.
Every central empire spy operat-
ing in this country today is officially
listed in the Offices Of these men. and
their records are kept in card index
form There are, I should judge, from
my personal knowledge, about 5000 of
these men in the United States today
and every one of them will do exactly
what he is ordered to do, and con-
slider himself. as in fact he really is
soldier under the direct instruction
of his military superiors.
Work Under Orders.
mo one of these men would dare
to act on his own responsibility in a
foreign country before he had secured
the approval of the representatives of
his government in that country.
These men have to keep in touch
with the military and naval attaches
of either the German or Austrian en-
bassies or else with the consuls
, have named already in my previous
statement, and from them they Sc
cure all maps and charts, sailing lists
of steamers and the precise locations
of factories where ammunition is be-
ing manufactured.
Money Given Carefully.
''They have to visit the official rep
resentatives of their country in order
to get the sums of money they need
60 carry out their instructions. 1t is a
standing order in all the German and
rre never to be given more than the
amount of money necessary to carry
them over one specific job they have
Oh hand at any one time.
Contempt for Americans.
"Do the American people think
that Captain Won Papen's somewhat
tnocuous statement about Americans.
in his letter discovered on Archibald.
IL an isolated expression Of opinion?
The truth is that. since the beginning
OF the war, in every German and AUS
trian consulate in this country. and in
both embassies. Americans have been
dogs and pigs and beasts when
ever reference has been made to them.
The people of this country do not
understand the contempt with which
these men view them, and their al
most entire freedom from restraint in
every illicit act they are performing.
mo passport fraud agent. in New
York or Cleveland or Philadelphia
and these three cities are full OF them
could live and do business day.
without the sanction and friendly as
sistance Of the Austrian and GermaR
officials"