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-3- 6. Infectinz tens of thousancs of jigs witn erysipelas ana with certain plagues by having virulent bacteria placed in medicinal seru:s. On March 2, 1938, Soviet justice caught up with the saboteur-spy !'ikhail Chernov. He was tried in Noscow, alons with twenty other Soviet citizens and he was sentenced to be shot. Paul Scneffer was ordered to leave the country. Ye returned to Berlin and began working ior pr. Goebbels, who in 1938 sent Scneffer to the United States wnere he remained for three years reporting regularly to Dr. Goebddels' news— paper, Das Reich. When Nazi Germany declared war_on the United States, Foul Scheffer was quiet picked up by the rBI and internea as an enemy alien. The authors ask tue question; Could such wholesale sabotage of agriculture, as took place in the Soviet Union, take place in the United States? They then state that regardless of how fantastic it might sound, such diabolical sabotage was actually } practised by German saboteurs in 1915 in the United States of Aserica. antos\tilger, a German-American medical graduate from Johns Hopkins Univers: was in Germany wien the First ‘iorld War broke out. le offered his services to the faiser, and was promptly detailed by Colonel Nicolai to do secret service work in the United States. Dilger returned to America with a supply of cultures of clanders and anthrax germs. Jinanced oy von Fapen, ne set up a laooratory in Chevy Chase, near Viashington, and started breeding ceriis on a large Scaie for inrecting mules, horses ana cattle awaiting shipment to tne Allies. {This man then organized a band of sone twelve assistants to travel around t! country, carrying Dilger'’s gerus in suall less phials sto,pered with corks through which a needle extended. This roving band jabbed their deadly needles into tne Lives They also spread germs by placing them in fodder ang arinx. Thousands of soldiers, as ‘well as horses_anc cattle, died as a result of er's cerns. At last Dilser revolted against his mission of silent death. He was sadam by German spies a_tew months before the end of the war. "Could it happen here? It did happen here? The authors do not give their source of information on this story. OUAPTER IT "Saboteurs at Work" In September 1941 the Federal Bureau of “tnvestigat tion conclusively establis 1. That the Jeraan Government hac laid extensive plans Jor the launchin: « a campaign of saootave azainst Avcrican celense incustries, transport and saipp! 2. That German money was pouring into the United States through D teh, Spanish and South Avuerican banks for tne purpose of financing spies and sabobeu Dai