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...Blue Book Magazine, to old check stubs found in a discarded suitcase in a Baltimore attic, to memoranda from the German secret service uncovered in the archives of the Austrian government. McCloy traveled from Dublin to Warsaw, interviewing Irish Republicans and such German characters as the late Franz von Rintelen, who masterminded German espionage in the U.S., and Rudolph Nadolny, who was then a German secret service man in the Wilhelmstrasse and is now active in behalf of Soviet Germany. In 1936, the Germans started to give up. Five years later, the American claimants recovered $26 million in damages; McCloy...
Died. Franz von Rintelen, 72, World War I master saboteur and head of the German spy network operating from New York; in London. Bald, dashing Prussian Captain von Rintelen came to the U.S. in 1915 with $500,000 and instructions to prevent munitions from reaching the Allies. He lost much of the money playing the stockmarket, but managed to carry out his orders: 32 Allied ships were damaged or sunk when incendiary time-bombs exploded in their holds. Responsible for a wave of dock strikes and the Black Tom explosion (and suspected of planning the sinking of the Lusitania), Rintelen...
...Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, Conservative M. P. and ardent Hitlerite; onetime M. P. John Beckett, militant pacifist and nuisance (he once tried to steal the Speaker's mace in the House of Commons); Germany's master spy and saboteur in World War I, Captain Franz von Rintelen...
Captain von Rintelen, who came to England in 1926 when he fell out with Arch-Intrigant Franz von Papen, was arrested even though he is over 60, the age limit for interning enemy aliens. Styling himself a "fugitive from Naziism." Rintelen is known in England as an elderly Beau Brummel and author of a best-seller on espionage. Americans remember him as a slick spy who caused $50,000,000 worth of damage to American industry and commerce in World War I. He expressed surprise at his arrest, but decided to "take it philosophically...
...addition there was 430,000 schillings paid to buy houses for Jewish refugees from Germany, and a payment of 108,000 schillings to Anton Rintelen, now serving a life sentence for participation in the Nazi Putsch which led to the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss. Maintaining the goodwill of the Austrian Press cost Phönix-Wien 1,098,000 schillings...