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View Felease: A, Ii. Pap ., : ' 3770 LONDAY, SOVEID.R 1, 1943. - ene DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ' ‘The Department of Justice announced today that a total of 923 alien enemies have been apprehended by the FBI as the result of investiga- tions originating from a check on purchasers of "Rueckwanderer Marks" — German | "re=micration" Marks. | According to FBI Director J, Edgar Hoover, the sale of Rueck= " wanderer Marks — foreifn exchange which could be spent only in Gerrany =~ began in the United States in May, 1936, and ceased in June, i941, with the freezing of such foreign remittances by Presidential Proclamation, Information obtained by the FBI, fir. Hoover said, indicates that the entire progran was controlled by the German Ministry of Economics in an effort to obtain badly=needed foreign ‘exchange. Te. Hoover asserted that some of the nost dangerous German aliens dn the United ‘States first came to the attention of the FBI because their names anpeared on lists of purchasers of Rueckwanderer Marks. Of the 923 anprehended, he said, 726 have been interned or paroled and 72 aliens are given hearings before Alien Lneuy Hearing Boards, with final decision made by the Attorney General. | _ ) Purchasers of the so-called German tresnigration Marks", tr. Hoover said, have Gheluded many naturalized American citizens as well as German altens in this country. He disclosed that tro of the eight German saboteurs who cama to the United States by subrarine in June, 1942, had purchased such exchange when previously in this country, while several convicted German spies also had invested Arerican dollars MoM a tyes ye Le JO6- 2-377 in this typo of German bank credit,