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aolt the 1111," betore "4ear".
DASCH oa14 he suggested
tt11a idea to ~. 7 A 1" .
Apart from the orlg1~ 1 meeting ploo~tor
DASOH ." d XERtINR. on July 4th' at the Hotel 016son, Cinoinnati,
eaoh Irou~leador~a8 turnlahc4 wgh an address
where th.sT ~ld b~~.a~ _ oue ot net!. KlRLING 1._ .
gave that ot 9 mutli-f. tt~_a--.3.9..th....st eot, Astor!",/(
llew 'fork 01 i; DAOO!P~ it"O£liiorot"Hifi, bllt .i
h. did not .teb to oc:mpronuae h1m, gaTe. f'IIlee addreee.
In addition, .aoh Daan had the .4dres8,.P.t HAUPT's unole,
In""1Wdter PROBHLING)(~!3 "MIEle 8treet,,,, or Avenue) .QhlO!&P/.Jl1tt)tHLING
WiB'liM: oonnaota With tne Abwehr In any way,
but W&iII cona1d.red 8 reliable' oontaot by ltAPPE. Helmuth
L&INBR had Q~ oonneotion with. the Abwohr.
Baoh man In DA80U'e aroup had • smaU metal
proouplna, tha masoot ot the Submarine whiob blQuSht them
OYer. The BUbmarine orow sa V8 theee poroupine. to tbem.
DASCH euggeated that they should ba USed all a '81m ot
reoognition between membera ot the &roup. 'The porcup1nea
theretore had 110 l181Ut1oanoa oute1de Group 1.
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The 8aboteur. were advi8ed that when they met in
a reetaurant or hotel, or at Hish iIIa.e in ohuroh a. WAI
eugsested, they 'hould not reoOVUiae eaoh othb i lled1atelT,
but that one eaboteur ebould walk out and be tollowed lll
ahartly by another, both making oertain that thay ware not
batng tOllOWed.",
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Th, only Abwehr asen whoa a naFe waa ~an to the
aroup 1ead,era b1 lCAPPB "88 t ,. t oMx:e.rl ftiR~ :aLJ:LG,Clpe
P a :'( a 'i:utha~n r ;""""WfiO"'"lott:
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armany III arr v,e n. IhOl'tJ., betore' the Japan .. e
attaok on Pearl Harbour.
KRRPPER knn tha name t;t tho
undertakin,g" PAQTORIOU8, batore he lett tor the USA, whioh
indioatea that the 1dea ot th1e and aub.equent expe41tiona
11'48 alreet\'" in the 1ll1n4e ot the Abwahr in the autlillUl at
1941. Aa XAPP) knew quite well th.t the Gorman VorallD
Ottioe had torb1dden '.botaae 1n tha USA ""'11, Germa~ .....
not at war with the USA, owing to tho tear that th1. might
preoipitate a deolaration ot .... r, 1t eeeme prob.ble that
the early 1ntervantion ot the UBA in the European War was
known to the Awehr at that time.
KREPPER' a n'arae .nd .ddreae were wri thn 1n eeoret
ink: on thr liiridkUobia.ta that eaoh aroup leader had, and
they were inetruoted to approaoh htm onlY in Oaae ot
"Kaiser emergency, Pae ua1n.g torioua". the paa'word "Daniel Prana P •• torlO\la" or
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, Ae all membara at the nrat Gannan .abotase
expedl tion to the UBA wera caught, 81x ot tbem exeoulO8d and
oertain ot their Oontaota in the UBA, who had no oonneotlon
'fIhataoever ,wi th the Abwehr but I1B rely aSsisted beoause they
were antl-Amerioan, were executed, 1 t wae to be expeoted
that KREPPER would lie Very low tor a oona1derab1e time.
Th1a hae beSl the case md though he bae been the eUbjeot
of muoh inve.tigation, little had b60n tound out about him
when the wr1 tel' lett 1'01' Buropa. ~ER had one guarded
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