Word: rieth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kurt Heinrich Rieth, onetime German diplomat, undercover agent for Adolf Hitler, had been living at the Waldorf for two months. Federal agents, who called him the "No. 1 Nazi now in the U.S.," knew he was there. They were keeping their eye on him to see what he would do when last fortnight the New York Herald Tribune forced their hand, broke a page 1 story about Dr. Rieth's activities...
Ever since Agent Rieth landed in Rio de Janeiro one day last March in an Italian plane from Rome, newsmen have been watching him. From their cabled reports, and from his diplomatic record, it was easy enough to figure out what he was up to in Manhattan...
Born in Belgium 60 years ago, Dr. Rieth was the son of a German who once did some work for the Standard Oil Co. in Europe. When the German Army rolled into Belgium in 1914, Kurt Rieth fled through the Belgian lines, joined the invaders. became a civilian administrator in occupied territory...
...Germany's Minister to Austria when in 1933 Adolf Hitler climbed into power. Dr. Rieth stayed on in Vienna, was soon knee-deep in Nazi intrigue. After the assassination by Nazi gunmen of Austria's brave little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, Minister Rieth was recalled to Berlin, replaced by his good friend Franz von Papen...
First thing Agent Rieth did when he arrived in Rio three months ago was to call a meeting of German consuls in South America, set up a commission composed of two Japanese, an Italian, a German, to look after Axis interests in Latin America. A subsidiary, the Inter-American Abstention Committee, was also formed. Purpose: to keep in touch with U.S. isolationists, encourage those who would hinder U.S. aid to Britain...