New Britain herald., 1919-11-15
BEHIND THE LINES OVER HERE The Revelations of U. s. Secret Service Man
 Dr. Muck's Activities and Other Spy Work

Written by Teri Felix Weiss For thirteen years United States 7mmigration Inspector; a special agent
 the Department of Justice since ne outbreak of the great war; one If the foremost linguists of the world. 3Sading and writing with perfect ease [ ve European languages and many 1tialects:mauthor of the "Seive" and a Eirllc and aggressive journalist. V Copyright 1919, By The Interna- lpnal News Bureau, Inc, all rights
 reserved, Book rights reserved; Copy 8ishted in all European countries; All translation rights reserVed). Instalment One.
 Had an American in Berlin com- 3nitted one per cent of the crimes . mrpetrated by the Kaiser's Germans @i America, within. half an hour a ring squad would have ended the en- 3erprise
 In Britain the iron hand of Scot 8and Yard would have finished these l lie creatures of the underworld and 39pperworld too. at the Tower of Lon l lon.
 There is only one explanation pos
 Rble: At the outbreak of the war kmerica had practically no Secret Service lsystem. It is not known to
 lie average American that America is
 he only country in the world that did hot possess a political Secret Service. . mlg few people know, even today, ; hat our so-called Secret Service had llmost nothing to do, during the $Nar, with the hunting of the Germans spies in America. Our Secret Service
 tho Intelligence Service of the
 Treasury department, and it's functions lre: to hunt out counterfeitcrs and guard the person of the President of ! he United States.
 Gcrmany's Friends in the Dept.
 So when Germany sprung the hor- ible war on the world, and her pro paganda machinations against her en- emies, she used our country as a field from which to direct her criminal eampaien against all who opposed her. We found ourselves absolutely unpre- pared to cope with the situation. The heavy and unequal task had to be undertaken by the Bureau of Investi- Eation of the Departn of Justice. But this was not an organization
 
 uation, so suddenly thrust upon it. Its agents were trained only to in vestigate and hunt up the offenders against the laws of the country, es- Specially violations of the Antitrust law, the Mann White Slave" Act, hnd such. They had never before had hny occasion to deal with European intrigue and rascality. They were 3untrained for such assignments. And :even if every agent of the depart 1ment were a Sherlock Holmes, yet There were not enough of them. And Ithe tragedy of it all is that the few &of these men we had were not all re- 4liablc The Service was infested With 1cncmv agents that were planted every 2where in every government depart fifefIt, and quite a few native Ameri- leans of 'Anglo-SaXon stock were out / right pacitists, or were infected with 3Germanism, if they did not have close Herman affiliations. GermaniSm had #also captured our "smart' set here in 1.-the East, who at the most critical moment in the history of our country &uphe1d the fiddle against the flag
 Boston. the intellectual center, the
 Athens of America, cared more for
 "Symphony" than she cared for de mocracy.'
 Through a peculiar coincidence-a
 very peculiar oincidence-Karl Muck = returned to the United States with
 more. than twenty musicians some o1
 whom -were, incidentally, officers ir H the Kaiser's army, and His Majes.
 tvs permission" had to be begged fol ! their transmission to the United States I so that they could drive worthy Am
 4ictcs +n ,I 2 call their symphony audiences hunds
 and swine during the intermission. Dr. Muck's Passport.
 It was. indeed. a strange coinci- dence that brought Karl Muck back ] to Boston soon after the outbreak of ! The war in Europe. And is it not