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UNDER COVER My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America— The Amazing Revelation of How Axis Agents and Our Enemies Within Are Now Plotting to Destroy the United States By JOHN ROY CARLSON Dedicated to SAM and STEVE, ROY and JOHN and to those other official under cover men and women who, unnamed and unsung, are fighting the common enemy of Democracy on the military front abroad and the psychological front at home As investigator of subversive activity, the author joined or became affiliated with many self-styled "patriotic" groups, some of which are listed below. The endpaper pattern was based on his membership cards and buttons. American National-Socialist Party German-American Bund Christian Front The Ultra-American Nationalist Party American Nationalist Party American Women Against Communism The Gray Shirts America First Committee No Foreign War Committee Christian Mobilizers American Destiny Party American Brotherhood of Christians Congress The Ethiopian Pacific Movement Citizens Protective League Social Justice Distributors Club The American Defense Society Anglo-Saxon Federation of America Paul Revere Sentinels Ra-Con Klub Crusaders for Americanism, Inc. We the Fathers, Auxiliary to We the Mothers Mobilize for America The Christian Mobilizer Phalanx, PAX (secret gun club) National Workers League Yankee Freemen Cross and the Flag Committee of One Million Flanders Hall, Nazi publishers American Patriots American Bulletin National Gentile League CONTENTS Page Author's Preface BOOK I—BEFORE PEARL HARBOR Chapter i. A Black Christmas 9 15 ii. School at Stahrenberg's 22 iii. The Hate Crusade 38 iv. Coughlin's "Christian Crusade" 54 v. Native Fuehrer 70 vi. Drilling for Der Tag 91 vii. Puppets of Adolf Hitler 108 vni. The Pied Pipers of "Patriotism" 13 2 ix. Hitler and Hirohito in Harlem 154 x. Poison in the Pulpit 164 xi. Spies! 177 XII. Park Avenue "Patriots" 187 xiii. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle 211 xiv. Behold Our Liberators! 227 xv. America's Doom Squad 239 BOOK II—AFTER PEARL HARBOR i. Underground 263 ii. The Bill of Rights-Heil! 277 iii. Inner Circle of the N.W.L. 7 291 8 CONTENTS Chapter iv. Outer Circle of the N.W.L. Page 304 v. Detroit Is Dynamite 321 vi. Fake Yankees 337 VII. Serpents and Vipers 357 The Mormon City 373 ix. Midwest Roundup 386 x. Attorney General Biddle Cracks Down 409 VIII. xi. Proselytes of the "New Order" XII. Treason in Liberty's Cradle 417 439 xiii. Grave Diggers of Democracy 456 xiv. Liberty's Hangmen 481 xv. Democracy Must Win the Peace! Index Four-page photographic insert between pages 264 and 265 501 523 AUTHOR'S PREFACE "Thunder on! stride on, Democracy! Strike with vengeful stroke!" WALT WHITMAN "UNDER COVER" is not so much an expose of the work of alien Nazi or Fascist agents as it is, ultimately, a warning to America of those factors which have led to the development of a nativist, nationalist, American Nazi or American Fascist movement which, like a spearhead, is poised to stab at Democracy. Defeatist and dissensionist propaganda continues while our country is at war, despite the arrest of nearly all the known foreign agents. This is not surprising. The Kuhns and Vierecks turned the torch over to the Pelleys and Laura Ingallses, and these American-born operatives of a foreign power symbolically relaye