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. -6- : to incendiary device or high explosive, nowever destructive, can wipe ait an entire branch oi incustry. Yet tnis is precisely what tne hazi economic saboteurs of “orld ‘lar II tried to accomplisn in tne Jnited States. They actuaily vournt up whole industries ana so aiverted essential ,roducts from the armed forces of. the United Staves and its Allies. The Nazis achieved this colossal economic sabotace throu ch their ruthless manipulation of international partnerships, cartels and ,atent pools." Thus the authors zo into. tne cartel agreements which were formed between Aperican and German firms long before Hitler came into power mentioning particularly the Bausch and Lomb Optical Company of Rochester, New York, and Carl Zeiss of Jena, Sermany. Their sources of material in this instance are the public records of tne Department of Justice, the Senate Patents Comnittee and the Senate Truman Committee investigating the National Lerense Frogram. In relating the case of Tetracene ammunition manufacturing between Reminston Arms Company ans for years controlled by the I. u. Farbenindustrie, the autnors state nat, veven at tne time of the writins of this book, despite the vast superiority of fetracene ammunition, it has not yet been zenerally adopted by the United States armed torces oecause of the Nazi economic sabotage." The cartels, cartnerships and patent pools were used by the German Government as espionage channels, which enaoled the Hich Command to learn many of the military secrets or the United States. mete Chemnyco, Incorporated, of New York an American representative or I. &. Farbenindustrie served as an agent for coliecting all manner of information on America war production useful to the German Government and to Nazi saboteurs in the United States. When Treasury agents raided the New York neadquarters of Chemnyco in Februar; Pace) 1542, they Tound_a complete espionage ile "on ail American industry" in the haat r company's vaults. * - ee m 1 at a fad = +*. ad 1 "This was quite zossibly a copy of theindex of American .naust - to on paze 23, the FBI had learned about “¥SZ1 throuzh the indiscretion o certain "forei¢en inaustriclist." "Tokyo Terrorists" In this chapter the authors so into the Black Dragon Society and the effort of Japan to obtain information in various ways. They reproduce a cooy of the letter Gated June 28, 1934 from the Japanese Consulate, K. Kagayama to lr. Hq. A. Van Norman, the chief engineer and generel manager of the Los Angeles Bureau of Vater works end Supply, Which was nothing more than a polite request from the Japanese Consulate for information concerning the Los Angeles water supply, nwaber of consumers, filtering process, etc. A copy of this letter was turned over to the FSI by Mr. Norman who als consulted the military authorities at that time. (The reviewer has seen sometime in years past a cooy of this letter in the Files of the Fbr. Accorcing to the authors, the German and Japanese Intellisence Services be an intimate collaboration snortly after Hitler cane to power. In 14:34 Colonel Valth Vicolai sent his section IiIs aide, Major Ceneral Eugene Ott, to Toxyo. ile was one Germany's most resourceful secret service men. He helped the Japanese to reor-4nize their espionage and saootece activities in Asia and tne Americas. E1 Salvador becam the chief base for joint Nezi-Japanese operations in the “estern denispnere. Obty Vater became the Geran Ambassador to Toxyo, took a special interest in the work or the owerful Black Lragon Soctety, woich was in control of the Japanese goverment 1