Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
Custodial Detention — Part 3
Page 63
63 / 264
~2- 590
December 7, 1941, Special Avents of the FBI were able to take into custom
inmediately hundreds of the most dangerous aliens in the United States,
and by nightfall of the following day a total of 1,771 alien enenies
had been arrested,
investigated by the FBI was that of @ young German alien registered for
Selective Service in Few York. He told investigators that he would sur-
render to the enemy at. the first opportunity if he were called inte
nilitery service. He further admitted that he had worked in a German
Labor Camp during a trip abroad in 1938, but had been rejected for service
in the German army because of an eye injury. Pictures of ships in the
Panama Canal and of the tock Anstellations there were found when his
premises were searched, ‘He was ordered interned by the Attorney General,
Po he = aus
In another case, @ German alien in an eastern city admitted
under questioning by the FBI thet he wanted to see Germany win the war,
and that he would have no hesitancy in fighting against the United States.
This alien, who first came to America in 1930 and who went back to
Germany for several months in 1938-39, also adnitted being an enthusiastic
former manber of the German-American Bund and a Bund Storm Trooper,..He -
demanded to be allowed to return, to. Germany on the first ship leaving for
a neutral port, but was ordered interned as & dangerous individual by.
the Attorney General, (-
oe
: sf.
! gan an investigation of a Japanese
alien who lived at Seattle, Washington, ‘after he was seen photographing ~
certain installations on the Willamette River, in Oregon,. Because he was
knorm to be connacted vith Japanese propaganda activities and was considered
(o>
oe aT RRR tl
Reveal the original PDF page, then click a word to highlight the OCR text.
Community corrections
No user corrections yet.
Comments
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
Continue Exploring
Agency Collection
Explore This Archive Cluster
Broad Topic Hub
Topic Hub
letter
bureau
Related subtopics
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic