Authors: Howard Blum
biological weapons and, 269, 271, 272
von Rintelen recruited by, 144–46
Noordam, 49–50, 59–60, 332, 352
Norfolk, Virginia, 384
Northrup, Clark, 237
North Sea, 103
Norway, 146
Nova Scotia, 95
Oberste Heeresleitung (OHL), 36–37
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), 110
opium, 92
Orozco, Pascual, 228
Orton, 122
Ott, Louis, 285
Pabst’s, New York City, 128
Paddison, 306
Page, Walter, 389
Pain Fireworks Display Company bombing, 94
Paris, 48, 79, 211
passports, 86–90, 146, 257, 332, 410
forgery scheme, 87,
87,
88–90, 91, 112, 283
U.S. requirements, 86
Patapsco River, 81
Pearce letter, 292, 295, 309–10, 314
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, 199
Petitt, Sheriff, 328
Philadelphia, 379
Phoebus, 183–84
phosgene gas, 267
Physick, 297–301
pneuomograph, 5
poisoning, 229
arsenic, 11
Polignani, Amedeo, 44–45, 116, 117
as Frank Baldo, 44–45, 53–58
Brescia Circle investigation, 44–45, 53–58
Polk, Franklin, 108–12, 385, 387
Port Colborne, 162
potassium chlorate, 186
press, 217, 22–23, 270–71, 292, 305, 388–89
on German sabotage operations in U.S., 346–48, 412, 417, 420
on Lusitania sinking, 338
on Muenter case, 307–8, 310,
315,
327–29
Pearce letter and, 292, 309–10, 314
pro-German, 340, 345, 388
Washington, D.C., 292, 295, 417
See also specific publications
Price, Charles, 302
Pullman, Raymond, 309–10
Queens, New York, 43
Resolute, 289
Rice, Malvin, 145, 167, 169
Rio Lages, 262
Ritz-Carlton, New York, 172, 388
Ritz Hotel, Philadelphia, 379
Rochambeau, 262
Rockefeller, John D., 24
bombing attack attempt against, 24, 25
Rockefeller Institute, New York, 271
Room 40, 104–5, 210, 416–17
Roosevelt, Theodore, 18, 98, 108, 195
Rough Riders, 99
Rotterdam, 332
Rough Riders, 99
Royal Navy, 40, 59–60, 76, 78, 269
rudder bombs, 233–34, 247–59,
259,
260–63, 280, 389, 421
detonation, 259
Russia, 31, 36–37, 144, 266
army, 144, 211–16
transport of munitions from America to, 211–17
U.S. credit to, 137
von Rintelen’s munitions scheme, 211–17
World War I, 31, 39, 48, 80, 134, 137, 144, 171, 211–17
Ryan, Jerry, 325–28
St. Alphonsus Church, Brooklyn, 23
St. Louis, 75, 228
St. Patrick’s Cathedral bombing attempt, 15–17, 56–58, 60–61,
61
St. Petersburg, 48
Samland, SS, 94–95
Samoa, 108
San Francisco, 233, 266
Scandinavia, 89, 266
Scheele, Walter, 39, 175–84, 233, 363–68
cigar bomb, 176–98, 363
Hoboken laboratory, 179–82, 362–64, 373
Schimmel, Karl, 374, 375
Schleindl, Friedrich, 399–400,
400,
401–2
Schmidt, Carl, 363, 373
Scholz, Walter, 202, 207, 247–52, 258, 259
Scotland, 136
Scull, Guy, 19, 98–102, 113, 117, 126, 128, 165, 185, 195–96, 198, 324, 385, 387, 407, 416
background of, 99
Seaboard National Bank, 307
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), 105, 113, 227
Secret Service (U.S.), 109, 207, 208, 339–49, 421
Albert papers fiasco, 340–49
surveillance of German spy network, 339–49, 388–91
Section V, 102–8, 210, 226–28, 243–44, 331, 389, 416–17
Sektion Politik des Generalstabes, 37
Senff, Henry, 118, 191, 360, 371–73
background of, 118
Serbia, 31, 48
Shakespeare, William, 123
shipboard fires and munitions plant explosions, 91–95, 100–102, 121–23, 179, 183–98, 215–16, 232–34, 244, 260–63, 330–31, 402, 411–13, 421.
See also specific ships and munitions plants
Shipping News, 183, 184, 216, 233, 234
Siberia, 266
Siebs, Paul (aka Karl Oppegaarde), 199–204, 207
Singer Building, New York,
205
Sketch, The, 347
Smith, William, 328
Smith-Cumming, Mansfield (C), 105, 108, 113
Society Summer Directory, 287–88, 296, 297, 329
Southern Methodist University, 273
Spain, 79, 410
sphygmagraph, 5
spy network, German.
See
Abteilung IIIB network in America; Manhattan Front;
specific spies and operations
Spring-Rice, Sir Cecil, 298, 299, 300, 306
Staats-Zeitung, 75
Stallforth, Frederico, 220
Statue of Liberty, 81
Sterett, James,
16,
203, 205, 208, 249, 250
stevedores, 94, 171, 183, 184, 196–97,
197,
383, 404–6
Stieber, Wilhelm, 38
Strowger, Almon, 129
Strowger switch, 129–30,
130,
131
submarine warfare, 40, 226, 269, 337–40, 415–16
sugar cargo, bombs hidden in, 187–97,
197,
198, 360
sulfuric acid, 186, 197, 318
Swan, Whitney, 10
Switzerland, 146
Tammany Hall, 18
telephone tapping, 129–32, 165
Texas, 149–51, 228, 273, 417
Texas Rangers, 99
Thirtieth U.S. Infantry,
20
Tiedmann, Friedrich, 352
TNT, 198–208, 233–34, 247–63, 345
Muenter (Holt) plot, 284–86, 288, 291–94, 298, 301, 308–9, 318–24,
324,
328
rudder bombs, 233–34, 247–59,
259,
260–63
sales to German network, 198–208, 247–63
See also
bombing; explosives
Troisvierges, 48
Tunney, Tom, 15–17,
17,
18–22, 97–102, 113, 416
becomes head of bomb squad, 15–27, 113–14
biological weapons investigation, 375–76, 386–88, 391, 396–97, 407, 409–11
Brescia Circle case, 25–27, 43–45, 53–58, 60–61, 101, 116, 118, 186
cigar bomb investigation, 185–98, 261, 362–76
cover names, 159
discovers von Rintelen-Muenter connection, 403
Fay investigation, 201–8, 243, 247–63
German spy network investigation, 113–21, 125–33, 155–65, 185–210, 228, 243–63, 279–333, 339, 349, 359–76, 391–412, 420–21
Hoboken investigation, 359–76
Koenig investigation, 125–33, 155–65, 185, 391–402
links bombings and sugar shipments, 185–98
Muenter (Holt) investigation, 282–311
NYPD career, 15–20, 60, 159, 420
promotion to inspector, 420
St. Patrick’s Cathedral bombing threat and, 15–17, 56–58, 60–61
surveillance of lighter captains, 190–98, 262
von Kleist investigation, 362–76
von Rintelen investigation, 209–10, 228, 234–35, 243–46, 279, 330–33, 359–76
Tyningham, 262, 370
U-boats, 40, 226, 269, 337–40, 415,
415,
416
Lusitania
sinking, 337–38, 338, 339–40, 389, 415
Ukraine, 268
Union Metallic Cartridge, 345
United Press, 307
United States, 39, 40
anti-German sentiment, 274, 284
British spy network in, 102–8, 210, 226–28, 243–44, 331, 389, 416–17
Civil War, 267, 352
declares war on Germany, 417–18,
418,
419–20
German press, 75, 340, 345, 388
German ships interned in, 76,
76,
77, 81, 171, 180–83, 359–60
German spy network in,
see
Abteilung IIIB network in America
horses, 268–72, 382–84, 405, 406
intelligence agencies, 109–11
Koenig sabotage campaign against industry in, 125–33, 140, 155–65, 175, 185, 209–10, 229, 282, 391–402
Lusitania
sinking and, 337–40, 389, 415
Muenter (Holt) sabotage operations in, 279–331
neutrality policy, 40, 51–52, 76, 80, 105, 111–12, 134–39, 219, 280, 327, 339
passport forgeries, 87,
87,
88–90, 91, 112, 283
pro-German sympathies, 340, 345, 360
shipboard fires and munitions plant explosions, 91–95, 100–102, 121–23, 179, 183–98, 215–16, 232–34, 344, 260–63, 330–31, 402, 411–13, 421
von Rintelen sabotage operations in, 142–47, 167–98, 209–35, 243–46, 265–66, 330–33, 359–91
wartime economy, 111, 134–39
wartime loans and arms shipments to Allies, 40, 111, 133–40, 183–84, 187–90, 211–17, 222, 257–63, 274, 330–31, 384
U.S. Army, 111
U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., 418
bombing of, 291–94,
294,
295, 305–6, 309–14, 318–19, 323, 327–28, 402, 421
U.S. Congress, 108, 109, 134, 222, 291–94, 390, 418,
418
espionage legislation, 228
U.S. Justice Department, 109, 262
U.S. Navy, 73, 76, 111
U.S. Senate, 291–94
U.S. State Department, 134, 137, 185, 187, 347, 390–91
U.S. War Department, 101
University of Oklahoma, 151
U-20, 415
Vanderbilt University, 151
Van Cortland Park, 270
Vaterland, 32, 181
Viereck, George Sylvester, 340–41
Virginia, 351–52, 354, 384, 404
germ warfare, 404–6
Vladivostok, 266
von Bernstorff, Johann, 29,
29,
30–38
exile in Adirondacks, 347,
347,
348
as German ambassador to U.S., 29–38, 41, 47–50, 60, 69, 338–39, 346–48, 387–91, 410, 416
on
Lusitania
sinking, 338–39
ordered back to Germany, 416
spy network and operations, 38, 40–41, 48–51, 59–60, 69–95, 108, 125–33, 141–42, 172–73, 346–48, 410
von Rintelen and, 172–73
von Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald,
33
, 50
von der Goltz, Horst, 79–83, 91, 162
background of, 79–80
forged passport of,
87
as Bridgeman H. Taylor, 81,
87
Welland Canal operation, 80–83, 86, 91, 162
von Eckhardt, Heinrich, 416
von Falkenhayn, Erich, 140
von Igel, Wolf, 410
von Jagow, Gottlieb, 30, 32–33,
33,
34, 75
von Kleist, Charles, 181–82, 222, 362–69,
369,
370–76
interrogation of, 368–72
investigation of, 362–76
von Papen, Franz, 73,
74,
79–83, 139–40, 164, 168, 176, 343, 362, 389–91, 410
background of, 73
as chancellor of Germany, 74
passport forgery scheme, 86–90, 91
recalled to Germany, 390–91
spy network operations in New York, 73, 79–83, 86–95, 168–69, 171, 228, 265, 389–91, 394, 396, 417
Welland Canal operation, 80–83, 86, 91
von Rintelen, Franz, 142,
142,
143–47, 167–84, 265–66, 331–33, 374
background of, 143–44
Baltimore operation, 378–84
biological weapons threat and, 353, 386–87
Black Tom plot, 231–32, 411–12,
413,
415
in British custody, 332–33, 359
cigar bombs, 176–98, 215–16, 232–33, 261, 362–76, 380, 383, 402–3
Huerta affair, 225–29, 244, 417
investigation of, 209–10, 228, 234–35, 243–46, 279, 330–33, 359–76
-Muenter connection, 279–80, 402
National Peace Union and, 221–23
recruited by Nicolai, 144–46
rudder bombs, 233–34, 247–59,
259,
260–63
Russian munitions scheme, 211–17
sabotage operation in U.S., 142–47, 167–98, 209–35, 243–46, 265–66, 330–33, 359–91
von Bernstorff and, 172–73
See also
Manhattan Front
von Steinmetz, Erich, 233, 265–72, 375–76
germ warfare program and failure, 266, 269–72, 353, 375–76, 381, 396
von Wandel, Franz Gustav, 141–42
von Wedell, Hans, 88–90
background of, 88
passport scheme, 88–90
Walsh, Patrick, 15,
16,
116, 203, 205, 252
War Intelligence Center, 73
Washington, D.C., 31, 69–70, 104, 108, 137, 185, 289, 309, 354, 355, 418
bombing of U.S. Capitol, 291–94,
294,
295, 305–6, 309–14, 318–19, 323, 327–28, 402, 421
press, 292, 295
Washington Monument, 291
Washington Post, 417
Weehawken, New Jersey, 201–8, 247–54
Weiser, Max, 175, 180, 183, 211–16, 222, 231
Welland Canal operation, 80–83, 86, 91, 162–64, 282
Wettig, Carl, 199–204, 251–52, 255, 258
Whitney, W. F., 11
whorehouses, 92
as operational cover, 82, 122
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, 37, 47,
47,
48, 50, 77, 143, 144, 339, 415–16
Wilson, Woodrow, 31, 51, 69, 108–9, 137–38,
138,
221, 292, 295, 415
death of his wife, 31, 51
declares war on Germany, 417–18,
418,
419–20
Flag Day speech, 419
growing awareness of German spy network, 339–40, 344–46, 348, 385, 388–91, 415, 419
Lusitania
sinking and, 338, 339, 389
neutrality policy, 51–52, 76, 80, 105, 111–12, 134–39, 219, 280, 327, 339, 348
Zimmermann telegram and, 416–17
Wolpert, Otto, 233, 370,
370,
373–75
Wood, Leonard, 20
Woods, Arthur, 20,
20,
21, 24, 26, 43, 97–102, 113–15, 126, 165, 185, 195–96, 305, 311, 320–29, 339, 371, 385, 387, 407, 416, 420
Woolworth Building, New York,
205
World War I, 31, 37, 47–51, 75–78, 111, 133–40
ammunitions shortages, 133–34, 215, 257
Battle of the Marne, 77–78
beginning of, 31–32, 40, 48–51
biological weapons, 266–72, 353–58, 376–88, 389, 402–7, 409–11
British blockade, 40, 80, 121, 125, 274, 338–39, 359