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T 3975 v _ persons suspected of proedArtsa aympaothies, and, when the conflict € aetually began, the 2,599 Spectal Agents were able to take tnto custody tanediately hundreds of the most dangerous persona tn the Untted States. By nightfall of December 8, 1941, a total of 1,771 enemy aliens had been arrested,and the FBI's work in this fteld of internal securtiy has continued without a letup in vigtilance, A German alten tn an eastern ctty adnitted under questioning by the FBI that he wanted to aee Germany win the war and that he would have no heattancy in fighting againat the United States, This alten, who firet came to Amertca tn 1930 ond who went back to Germany for several] months in 1938-39, also adaitted betng an enthustaetic former menber of the German-Amertean Bund and wae a Bund Storm Trooper. He demanded that he be allowed to return to Gernany via the first ship leaving for @ neutral port, but wos tnterned by order of the Attorney General as a dangerous individual. A young German alten pep istered for Selective Service in New York told Special agents of the FAI that he would surrender to the enemy at the first opportuntty tf he were called into military service, He further admitted that he hed worked in a Gernan Labor Camp during a trip to the fatherland tn 1938 and was rejected for service in the German Army because of an old eye tnjyury. | Pictures of ships tn the Panana Canal and of the lock wshan fh f C7 om tt 4G WiLéb 4 = 2 waman tane ina ae @ Ff eureceg We ~ and he adnitted taking then, The canera with which the photographs were made also was found, although all altens were ordered sonetine - before to turn in caneras und other specified articles, such as weapons’, explosives, maps ond charta, . peer =