The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-06
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EDITORS NOTE-While Drew Pearson is
 brief vacation, his column will be written by
 several distinguished guest cOlumnists-tOday's by
 John Edgar Hoover Director, Federal Bureau of
 Investigation)
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 6-The great majority of the American public has considered the F.BL. purely domestic fOrce utilized to enforce Federal Criminal Laws and to safeguard the internal security of the nation. With the end of the war; it can now be stated that the FBI, under the direction of the President, was responsible during World War II for gathering intelligence and Subversive information throughout the entire Western Hemisphere for CO., ordinating efforts combat sabotage and espionage in all the countries of the Caribbean Central and South America
 As a result of the cooperation between the F.BI and local law enforcement agencies in these countries foreign-inspired sabotage occurred and enemy es- ponage efforts were completely curbed throughout all the Americas.
 The Germans amply supplied with funds for their work. These were received in part from the sale of Rueckwander marks in the Americas During the war FBI agents located secret cache of Nazi funds in the German Embassy in Washington This fund totaled than $3,000,000. Most of it was earmarked for in espionage activities. Early Nazi penetration in the western half of the Globe took on deadly significance with each incoming report German troops in Dakar awaited orders to launch attack Brazil with direct at tacks American defenses in the Caribbean. Ger man and Jap airplanes were expected to launch an all-out smash attack on the Panama Canal. The German diplomatic staff figured in plots
 designed to promote revolutions in several South American countries. German propagandists worked overtime to drive a wedge between the haterS of Nazism and Fascism in the Americas One propa- ganda campaign line charged that Italian submarines were sinking Brazilian ships while Brazilian troops fighting with the Allies in Italy. The old theme | of Yankee Imperialism" in South America | ground out by the NaN propaganda machine with | little success.
 Scanning the tide of Nazi penetration in the Western Hemisphere less important than | halting Hiter's armies in Europe. The task complshed not only in the United States but the
 exploits that bear tribute to the splendid work of | South American law enforcement officers working side by side with FBI agents throughout the South | ern continent For example, when espionage rings | were uncovered by the F.B.I. in Brazil and Chile, local authorities moved with dispatch rivaling the alien roundup in the United States following the | Pearl Harbor disaster.
 | From July l. 194O, through June 30, 1946 879
 espionage agents identified in South America, | together with 281 propaganda agents, 30 sabotage
 agents and 222 smugglers of strategic materials ! A total of 15,047 alien enemies in South America
 were moved from strategic areas, interned ex- peled while additional 1600O potentially danger
 enemy aliens were arrested in the United States
 and territorial possessions
 The biggest and most baffling espionage case
 handled by the F.B.I. during the centered in of neighboring countries. This ring intro duced the 'Micro-dot" of communica- tion to the Western Hemisphere The Germans suc-