Word: drager
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Hull brow took a deeper furrow last week. In big black type the New York Post said Dies Committee evidence showed that Friedhelm Drager, German Vice Consul in New York, is the head of a vast Nazi propaganda and espionage machine operating in the U. S. Deep and dark as an Oppenheim thriller was the story which the Post spread across its pages...
...Friedrich E. Auhagen, former Columbia University professor, who was arrested as he was about to flee to Japan, had squealed, named taciturn, square-faced Drager as the mastermind. Dies Committee raids on German organization offices had produced confirming evidence...
...Under Drager, a sinister NSDAP (foreign division of the National Socialist Party) had divided the U. S. into districts in which various German consulates carried on secret and subversive plots...
...story the nervous Anti-Nazi League, remembering that a pro-Nazi magazine (Die Neue Woche, edited by Propagandist Dr. Manfred Zapp, in format somewhat resembling TIME) was already running full force, again warned the State Department: "If he does not take over certain of the activities of Dr. Friedhelm Drager [German vice consul in Manhattan] ... he will probably occupy the position of confidential fifth-column adviser to Consul General Borchers." Last week Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles told his press conference that the case of Friedrich Ried was "under consideration...