Dear Comrade Gissibl:

We wrote you yesterday that the 3,000 badges for the singing
festival would be sent to you via Orgell; for various reasons we
have now divided the badges in ten single packages of which two
each went to the following addresses: Friedrich Schlenz, Karl
Moeller, Karl Kraenzle, Orgell and two to you.

Please inform your co-workers respectively and take care that in
case duties have to be paid they should be laid out; please see
to it that Orgell refunds the money to you later; this was the
simplest and the only way by which the badges could be sent in
order to arrive on time.

With the German people's greetings,
E.A. VENNEKOHL.

These documents in the hands of the Dies Committee show definite
tie-ups between German propaganda divisions and agents in the United
States (some of them came through the Nazi diplomatic corps), yet
these documents were put aside. The letters from True, Allen, and
others quoted in the previous chapter were also placed before the
Congressional Committee. It refused to call the men involved.

[Illustration: Another letter connecting Gissibl with a German
propaganda agency. This letter, translated in the text, was
hardly noticed by the Dies Committee.]

[Illustration: Further evidence of Gissibl's tie-up with the
People's Bund for Germans Living Abroad. This letter, a
translation of which appears in the text, was also long withheld
by the Dies Committee.]

FOOTNOTES:

[20] Formerly known as J. Parnell Feeney. He changed his name because he
thought he could get along better in the business world with a name like
Thomas than with a name as potently Irish as Feeney.

[21] Nazi propaganda center for foreign countries with headquarters in
Germany.

[22] The notorious Nazi Primer teaching children songs of hate against
Jews and Catholics.

[23] People's Bund for Germans Living Abroad.

_Conclusion_

The activities of the few agents and propagandists described in the
foregoing chapters do not, as I said in the preface, even scratch the
surface of what seem to be widespread efforts to interfere in the
internal affairs of the American people and their Government; but a
few basic conclusions can reasonably be drawn from what little is
known of the Fifth Column's operations.

Berlin-directed agents in foreign countries sometimes