Evening star., 1938-12-15
First Nozi SpyIs Trapped
Trying to Get Passports

broke the NGSt spy ring.
In January of this year, while the
r. B, I. searched vainly for the
elusive spy Grown" in America,
orders came directly from the Ger
man War Ministry, u Tierpitzufer
Strasse, Berlin, to intensity spy
activity in the United States.
Down the line from Berlin to the
operating Offices at Hamburg and
Bremen went the orders, down to
the Nazi political leaders and spy
contact men aboard the big German
passenger vessels of the Hapag-
Lloyd Lines.
Over the Atlantic they carried the
word, and into New York. From
there they spread it to their spies in
New York, in Newport News, Va:
In Boston, in Montreal, in Seattle, In
the airplane factories, the naval
designing Offices, the armament in
dustries.
More! We need more informa-
ton on American defenses! Action!
Recruit more agents. Money no OBJ
feet. We must have all plans!"
Those orders originated in a Sec
ton of the German War Ministry.
There sits the powerful Col. Busch.
Directly under him the depart
ment branches into two services.
There is the Army Military Intelli-
gence. Then there is the Naval
Military Intelligence, headed by the
aristocratic, Kapitan-leutnant Udo
Won Bonin and the stout, bald Kap-
itan-leutnant Hermann MenZel.
known to DIR. Griebl.
OF all the spies we uncovered here,
only DR.. Ignatz T. Griebl ever saw
any Of them.
The last time that + definitely
know that DR.. Griebl met Won Bonin
and Metzel was when he was at
Berlin in June, 1887.
Capts. Won Bonin and Menzel
left the dangerous work to our &C
uuaintance of the first article, the
efficient Kapitan-leutnant Erich
Pheiffer, chief of the Marine Mach
richten Stelle-the German Naval
Intelligence-at Bremen.
One of these Nazi spy chiefs, I was
30 discover later, when I unraveled
the plot and followed 1t right up to
Col. Busch, was the IN. Spilman" to
whom Grown" was writing for in
structions when MIS- intercepted the
letters at Dundee.
Meanwhile, a spy was stealing the
blueprints of our bombing planes
out at Seversky Aircraft Corp, on
Long Island. In New York; at Bath,
Me; in Philadelphia, and at New
port News, Va, and other places the
key designs of our fighting ships, re-
vealing poteatial weaknesses, were
being stolen.
Pockets of S1O0 Bills.
Another was plying back and
forth, making contacts, with red
headed Jenni Hoffman, as a foil.
Furtive groups met in DR.. 1gnatz
T. Griebls Office in New York.
The surly, hard drinking Schmidt,
whose first name no one knew, ap-
peared mysteriously with pockets
filled with 500 bills, paid off spies,
and just as mysteriously disap-
peared. Out at Mitchell Field a spy
was copying the codes of our Air
Force. In Seattle a spy base was
relaying secrets to the Japanese.
Leaders of the German American
Bund here were trying to secure
for the Nazi spy ring the confiden-
tial maps of our Canal Zone forti-
fications. So was Guenther Gustav
Rumrich. Karl Friedrich Wilhelm
Hermann, chief of the Nazi Ges-
tapo, was staggering the streets of
New York.
At a corner table in the Cafe
Fatherland, East Eighty-siXth street
and Second avenue, New York, sat
a tall man with a long pompadour
combed back from an almost freak
ishly high forehead. He was making
love to a blond German girl and
confiding to her that he was a
German secret agent. That was
Grown"
We studied again and again the
intercepted spy letters, particularly
one revealing that the Nazi spy
ring planned to use fake White
House stationery and forge the sig
nature of President Roosevelt on it
in daring attempts to execute some
of the greatest spy coups in history.
Signature From Newspapers
Grown" had clipped from the
New York Times of December IA,
1887 a reproduction of President
Roosevelt's memorandum to Secre-
tary of State Hull on the sinking
of the United States gunboat Panay
by the Japanese.
This he inclosed in a letter to
IN. Spielman" at Bremen, with the
following marvelously accurate in
structions:
"O Quality and size of repro
ductions of White House letter
sheets to be same as this letter.
"(2) Imperative that no water
marks can be detected on letter
sheets.
"(3) Envelopes 105x240 NM; same
quality as letter sheets.
Specifications for printing:
"QD The words The White House
to be exactly same as per inclosed
clipping. Begin IA en-. from the
right sheet margin and As nm. from
the top. To arrive at precisely the
exact size of type, enlarge inclosed
photographed document so that en-
larged typewriter letters correspond
with the typewriter letters of this
letter. This will give correct pro-
portion.
"(2) Similar heading on envelopes,
In upper left-hand corner. First
letter, IT, to be placed nm. from
left margin and IS mm from the
top.
"(3) Quantity of each: so.
40 To be sent by special mes
senger"
That letter was mailed January
10, 1898, from New York via the
Dundee. Scotland, relay station.
"Who Was the Messenger"
Crowns" letter to IN. Spielman"
said he wanted his fake White House