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¥ ~2- WR nfhfyg! December 7, 1941, Special Acents of the FBI were able to take into custody inmediately hundreds of the most dangerous aliens in the United States, ‘and by nightfall of the following day a total of 1,771 alien enemies had been arrested. _ | | | According to Director J,. Edgar Hoover, typical of the cases investigated by the FBI was that of a, young German alien registered for Selective Service in New York, He told investigators that he would sur- render to the enemy at the first opportunity if he were called into military 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 zrmy because of an eye injury. Pictures of ships in the Panama Canal and of the lock installations there were found when his. premises were searched, He was ordered interned by the Attorney General, +. io + In another case, a German alien in an astern city under questioning by the FBI that 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 admitted being an enthusiastic former member of the German-American Bund and a Bund Storm Trooper, He demanded to be allowed te returpiito. Germany on the first ship Leaving for ' 1 oe) me a neutral port, but was ordered intarned’ as 4 dangerous individual by ti ttorne eval, AON ° ne Attorney oom 1, th Wy on 6 i In October {2040, the FOE deg o3eh investigation of a “Japanese Osc qf dlien who 13 764 “Wt Begttle, Washington, after he «ng seen photographing * ME) fe certain ins Fal “nt ond Qn; “the Wislarette River in O--p. Because he was . eS knovn to be conmected vaith Japanese Propac ida activisies ana was considercd a a re j wd QS