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vor Release: A, He Pap: 25° i 3974-: ree DEPARTICNT OF JUSTICL ee Arr ae : + th Lory Pern) The Department of Justice announced today that Y “total of 923 Lowey An enemies have veen apprehended by tie FoI as the result of snvestie- . rn Pc , tions oripinating fron a check on purchasers of "Rueclwanderer Marks"*el oo. |. German "yeendgration" Narks. _ iis Com na oe yan, age According to FEI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the sale of Rueck-yf deaia f diner | wanderer Marks — foreign exchange which could be spent only in a began in the United States in May, 1936, and ccased.in June, 21942, wit the freezing of such foreign remittances by Presidential Proclamation. Information obtained by the FBI, Jir, Hoover said, indicates that the entire procran was controlled by the German liinistry of Economies in an effort to obtain badly=needed foreigfn exchanee, | lr. Hoover asserted that some of the most dangerous German: aliens in the United States first came to the attention of the FBI because their names anpcared on lists of purchasers of Rueckwanderer Marks, Of the 923 annrehended, he said, 726 have been interned or paroled and 72 os released, Disposition is pending in 125 cases. In all instances, the _ alicns are given hearings before Alien Lnemy Hearing Soards, with final decision made by the Attorney General, Purchasers of the so-called German "yo=migration Karks4, tr. Hoover said, have included many naturalized amcrican citizens as_ well as German aliens in this country. He disclosed that two of the eight German saboteurs sho came to the United States by submarine in So pee June, 1942, had purchused such exchance when previously in this country, while several convicted German opics also had invested Anerican do 377 fee ’ the in this type of German bank credit. way . eared