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Three Federal officers in plain clothes one day last week shouldered their way into a luxurious suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. To the thin, tall, elderly man who stood inside, wearing a wrinkled pajama coat and a pair of trousers, they said curtly: "Dr. Rieth, you are under arrest...
...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...
...also necessary to fire the German Minister to Austria, well meaning Dr. Kurt Rieth, who had doubtless thought he was serving his Government when he undertook to dicker for the butchers and promised them safe entry into Germany. This blunder was irretrievable but it gave intuitive Chancellor Hitler one of his bright ideas. He has long been looking for a way to ease German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, protégé and "best comrade" of President von Hindenburg, out of his Cabinet (TIME, July 9). Impulsively Chancellor Hitler dashed off an effusive letter, "requesting you, Dear Herr von Papen...
...Schiedt; 8, J. C. Craft and G. H. Godley; 9, P. N. Crusius and O. L. M. H. Lyding; 10, C. A. Fitzgerald and W. A. Fotch; 11, F. W. Branch and A. A. Jenkins; 12, G. C. Good and C. Gordon; 13, E. T. Wentworth; 14, G. R. Rieth and G. F. Williams; 15, A. S. Olmsted; 16, C. H. Sears and G. Studley. North Entry--17, H. C. Ross; 18, J. B. Herold; 19, C. A. Leavitt and S. C. Rogers; 20, W. K. Coffin and L. M. Nichols; 23, G. T. Hamilton and P. D. G. Hamilton...