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Invisible Ink. Last week the strangers in parked cars proved to be FBI men. They arrested the man with the satchel. Carl Emil Ludwig Krepper, as a Nazi agent. They charged that 1) he had agreed to maintain a refuge for Nazi saboteurs in the U.S.; 2) he had sent a code letter to Germany, and received back two letters in code from his wife, Bertha, who is still in Germany...
...eight Nazi saboteurs who landed in the U.S. by submarine in June 1942 led the FBI to Krepper. As the FBI methodically ran every inch of the saboteurs' clothing through invisible-ink developers, an address appeared on a plain white handkerchief. It was: "Pas [Pastor] Krepper, Route 2, Rahway...
This was only a mail address, but it led the FBI on to Carl Krepper on James Street in Newark. The man with the satchel was patiently shadowed for 30 months. Then the FBI pounced...
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