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)ies Plans Reports
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Records Of Suspected
Subversive Foreign
Agents to Be Seized

Subversive Foreign
Agents to Be Seized
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Festapo German secret police)
gents in the United States" he
bid. "As fast as possible we will
hove In upon them, place them
nder oath, and take their testimony.
'tBut we are not going to move
gainst innocents," he repeated.
Records to Be Seized.
Robert STRIPPING, committee clerk,
nnounced hat committee agents
ithin the next few days would
eize records Of suspected subversive
breign agents in Boston, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Buffalo, Pittsburgh,
Milwaukee, Cleveland, New Orleans
nd st. Louis.
The bulky document on Nazi &C
vities issued yesterday contained
ozens of exhibits which the COM
hitee said were copies of records
eized in various cities. Some were
letters, some of informal notes
nd some of unidentified statements,
Il represented as relating to phases
German efforts to establish con-
bets here with industrialists.
The overall picture the committee
bid it found apparent" was one
rincipally of German propaganda,
Nth q liberal sprinkling OF so
elled military espionage" and
economic penetration in the Western
hemisphere.
The committee held, for instance,
hat evidence showed that the
rransocean News Service was q
ropaganda outlet and that 1t
torked closely with German diplo-
hattie officials in the United States.
Fransocean is q German enterprise
md has no connection with any
[merican news-gathering agency or
rganization.
Zapp Named as Agent.
The committee said its evidence
howed that both the German EN-
assy and German consulates took
lively interest" in spreading the
FORK of the Transocean News Serv-
be. 1t named Manfred Zapp as
ransocean's representative in this
ountry and commented that:
"(He) took deep interest in the
hammer in which the United States
andled its diplomatic relations with
apan and, in fact, at times not
My gave advice to representatives
i the Japanese government but also
hdicated to his own country, Nazi
termany, certain steps that might
taken to aid his country in the
landing of diplomatic affairs
The committee said that when
Adolf Hitler came into power, he
|hade Transocean into an agency
for the dissemination of propa-
anda" in foreign countries and said
hat Mr.. Zapp felt himself to be
nder the direction and supervision
II the German Embassy"
Furthermore, the report said the
ommittee had evidence that Trans
|cean was the chief propaganda
|rganization of Germany in Guate-
hals, Mexico, Cuba, Ecuador, Ar
|entina and Brazil.
THE evidence indicates" the re-
Iort said. that the material sent
rom Germany to the South Ameri-
an countries is violently anti
american, and that Transocean
Jews gives free distribution of its
Material to the newspapers in South
merica."
Consuls' Finance Plans.
The report said that in some in
tances German consuls in this
puntry figured in placing Trans
ceans service with newspapers and
Either in collecting the cost of the
ervice from subscribers, or else
aging the charges out of their own
ockets.
Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, German
onsul at San Francisco, denied
nat his consulate had been financ-
' ng any propaganda news service.
he said his Office bought Trans
cean news for Office use.
DR.. Herbert Scholz, German con-
ul at Boston, said he regarded Mr..
fapp as lust another salesman in
crested in marketing his product"
. nd that Transocean News was
merely another article of COM
'nerce."
The white paper" also contained
he first allegations that there ex-
sted in this country a foreign d.
Fision of the National Socialist
barty-the supreme political force
b present-day Germany. The COM
nittee said that, according to infor-
nation in its possession, this for
3ign division was one of the founda-
ion stones of what it called the
Eerman drive in the United States.
The committee moreover asserted
That it had discovered In files Of the
chemical Marketing Co., New York
City, plan" called the Organ
zation of German Industry in
america After the War"
Purposes Revealed.
This "plan," the report explained,
contemplated improvement of Ger
nan-American relations through
two trade organizations and a
fGerman University League, Inc, "
10 foster an exchange of cultural
Ind social relations between Ger
many and America"
The committee report stated that
the plan" proposed to combine
these activities with a banking ven-
ture
"The plan" it continued, "sets
forth a very definite link with the
Industrial life in Germany by pro-
kiding that all of these activities
Industry, trade, commerce and aca-
demic-shall be directed from a
bureau to be established in the Ger
man ministry in Berlin.
There is the very obvious intent
10 retain control of these activities
Ia the hands of German authori-
hes and not to permit the control
k1 ha d;criy,o Tod or t0 come under