The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-30

THE Y. B. '. vs. THE s. P.Y. 1, The wartime record of .the FBI with no enemy directed acts of sabotage in the United States, with espionage kept under control helped to hasten the day of final vic- tory.
 The enemies on the home front had to be met in various ways. At the peak of enemy activity here, subversive forces exerted every ef- fort to hamper the FBI. Tn a wave of hysteria that swept the country after the fall of France, there were those who denounced the FBI be- cause spies were not being hung from telephone poles.
 When the time came to strike, there was little doubt as to what the FBI had been doing since 1t was ordered by the President to head Up our fight against spies, saboteurs and subverters.
 The first crackdown came with the arrest of the famous New York spy ring and the conviction of 8 spies arrested.
 Col. Fritz Duquesr1e, WHO boasted that he was the coordinator of German intelligence matters in South America in World War 1 and who was convicted of espionage charges after Pearl Harbor, on one occasion was boosting of his ex- ploits to a girl friend who was an American citizen. Although later convicted for espionage, spark of patriotism burst forth when she told Duquesne he would not have achieved his boasts, if "our FB1 existed as 1t does today" Duquesne shot back: T can get up new tricks too"
 , Duquesne followed the practice walking down the street of suddenly turning on any one who was nearby demanding to know if the persor behind was following him. While 3 he did this regularly, the FBI kept him under surveillance for nearly { two years, and there was no more surprised man in New York thar Duquesne the night FBI agents ar rested him.
 Kurt Frederick Ludwig, another German agent, observed G-men ar rest two other spies, while he II turn was being watched. He wa! allowed to escape; thus the othel members of his ring were Identified wvAA m11 xzyara arrested
 One of Ludwig's associates wa pr. Paul Borchardt. Borchardt later convicted for espionage in NeV < York city, in the early days O Hitler was g collaboration of Gen Haushofer in establishing the in @ famous Institute of Geopohtlcs which wsa responsible for Hitler Seign of conquest.
 Borchardt was all things to al men and claimed to embrace fou different religious faiths. Ate I,udwigs arrest on the West Coast he sought to bribe his guard to le him escape. He promised the guar that Borchardt would pay him $50, 900. as his freedom was worth tha much to Germany. Ludwig is no serving a long term in teders penitentiary.
 The G-Men converted so man uncovered German spies into "dou bic agents" that the Nazis becam alnost frantisc. They instructe many agents to make their mission known to absoluately no one' nt they, too, fell into the FB1 ne In turn the FBI sent false dat to the Germans by radio to furths confuse them.
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