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Actually, as FBI men soon discovered, his business was to direct anti-British activities in the U.S. Like Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick, who beat a hasty retreat last summer after his activities were unmasked by the press (TIME, Aug. 12), Dr. Rieth also hoped to persuade U.S. businessmen to feel more friendly toward the Reich. With that in mind, he called on bankers and industrialists, introducing himself as "a very dear friend" of Standard Oil's Teagle. Mr. Teagle denied that he had ever met the Nazi agent or communicated with...
...Trade Counselor Gerhardt Alois Westrick, Assistant Manhattan Consul Friedrich Ried...
...country scuttled two official Nazis, bound for Japan: Dr. Friedrich Ried, assistant German consul in New York City, subject of State Department inquiry, and Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick, German trade counselor to the U. S., indignant over being made an object of suspicion...
...beam its chairman had attracted by seeming to be friends with Nazi Germany. All were agreed that the New York Herald Tribune's three-week-old revelation of the connection between Rieber and Hitler's cumbersome ambassador-off-the-record to U. S. businessmen, Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick (TIME, Aug. 12), threatened to hit Texas Corp. in the cash register. Those who knew Cap Rieber were sure he was no pro-Nazi, although he had been keen to do business with Germany before the war. But they also felt his indiscretions and bad handling of the press...
Lawyer Callan happens to work for the firm of Shearman & Sterling, one of whose clients is Captain Rieber's Texas Corp. At week's end, Dr. Westrick packed his trunks without haste, made ready to move out of Lawyer Callan's house "as soon as possible." Next week, on Aug. 12, his three-months lease expires...