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The Web : $b The Authorized History of the American Protective League
Hough, Emerson
American Protective League; Propaganda, German; World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- United States
9. Disclosed extensive plans for the control of South American
trade by German interests, and showed German methods of keeping
a close scrutiny on the political situation of the several South
American republics.
10. Disclosed means adopted for carrying on German business in
enemy as well as in neutral countries, and gave to the authorities
the names of the German agents in every neutral country in the
world.
The arrest and internment of Schmidt and Pavenstedt was a direct
result of the exposure of Bolo Pacha. Pavenstedt is the former
head of the banking house of G. Amsinck & Co., and for years was
among the best known of the Kaiser’s subjects in New York. The
Schmidt papers disclosed him as an intimate of von Bernstorff,
Dr. Albert, Boy-Ed, and von Papen, and as the man to whom Bolo
went immediately on arrival in this country in the late winter of
1916. Pavenstedt negotiated for Bernstorff the financial part of
the conspiracy which resulted in the payment to Bolo out of the
funds of the Deutsche Bank in this country a sum totaling about
$1,700,000.
It was also disclosed that immediately following the outbreak of
the war, Boy-Ed and von Papen hurried to New York to establish
propaganda and plot headquarters as per instructions received from
Berlin. Boy-Ed, like Bolo, first sought Pavenstedt, who found
room for the German naval attache in his own office in the bank
building. Later, when the newspapers began to print stories of the
questionable operations of the German naval and military attaches,
they moved to other headquarters, the transfer being made “for
reasons of policy,” at the suggestion of Pavenstedt.
The story of Bolo is known to every one, and it is not necessary
to point out how the Schmidt papers led to that traitor’s arrest
and subsequently to his execution by a French firing squad.
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