The House on 92nd Street
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- 1945
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Vigilant, tireless, implacable.
The most silent service
of the United States in peace or war...
...is the Federal Bureau
of Investigation.
The Bureau went to war with Germany
long before hostilities began.
No word or picture
could then make public...
...the crucial war service of the FBI.
But now it can be told.
In 1939, with thousands
of known and suspected enemy agents...
...invading the Americas...
...the FBI started building up its force
of special agents and employees...
...from 2000 to a war peak of 15,000.
Before being sent into the field,
each new agent had to learn...
...all the modern techniques
of crime detection...
...such as the use of a specially treated
x- ray mirror...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
had to be the world's...
...most efficient intelligence
and counterespionage service.
For war is thought,
and thought is information.
And he who knows most
strikes hardest.
By examining the intercepted mail
of unsuspecting Nazi agents...
secret channels of communication.
Between the lines
of an innocent-appearing letter...
...invisibly coded
in an obsolete German shorthand...
...were important instructions
for one group of spies.
The Bureau's infinitely
painstaking system...
...of sifting and recording every scrap
of potential information...
...paid handsome dividends.
to its long list of Germans...
...known to be dangerous.
And each day, as fresh investigated
reports came in from the field...
...FBI officials saw more clearly...
...the pattern of German espionage
in the United States.
Nucleus of the Nazi network
in America...
...was the German Embassy
in Washington...
...protected, until a declaration of war,
by diplomatic immunity.
Long before December 7th, 1941,
from a vantage point nearby...
...G-men photographed the actions
of hundreds of suspects.
These are the actual films
taken by the FBI.
They gave Director Hoover
and his men a daily record...
...and description
of all embassy visitors.
This continuous
photographic surveillance...
...provided a permanent record
to be studied intensively...
...whenever new developments
took place.
The Bureau soon discovered
that the embassy was being used...
...to disperse money for subversive
activity in the United States.
The Bureau also knew that the embassy
had a short-wave radio...
...and was in direct communication
with Germany.
No one was watched more closely
by the FBI...
...than the arrogant
Baron Ulrich von Gienanth.
Although accredited
as an embassy official...
...he was actually chief
of the German Gestapo in America.
Equally important were pompous
Vice Admiral Witthoeft-Emden...
...and his suave assistant,
Helmut Raeuber...
...experts in obtaining information
about ships and cargoes.
Dr. Hans Thomsen,
the German charg d'affaires...
...tried to win American collaborators.
So did his associate,
General Karl Boetischer.
Parading before hidden FBI cameras
were the embassy secretaries.
in the company of American servicemen.
They were having fun...
...but they were also diligently
accumulating information for Germany.
The FBI watched them discreetly,
knew all about them.
By relentless surveillance
of embassy officials...
...and all those
with whom they associated...
...the FBI learned that Germany
was recruiting American Nazis...
...for its espionage service.
In 1939, Nazi fronts, like Fritz Kuhn...
...and his German-American Bund,
were flourishing.
The Germans said
they were only social gatherings.
But the FBI knew that these societies
were part of a well-laid German plan...
in the United States.
In 1939, on the campus
of a Midwestern university...
...not far from Columbus, Ohio,
there was a brilliant young student.
Born of German-American parents
who were proud of his college record...
...he was preparing
His name was William Dietrich.
Just before graduation...
...Dietrich was approached
by German representatives...
...who offered him a free trip to Germany
and a well-paying job on arrival.
Dietrich reported the incident
to the FBI.
When the meaning of the German
invitation was explained to him...
...Dietrich offered his services
to the Bureau.
With money generously supplied
by the Germans...
...Dietrich bought passage at the German
Tourist Bureau in New York City.
The Germans felt that Dietrich
was an extremely valuable man.
So did the FBI.
Ten days later Dietrich was 3500 miles
from New York...
...in Germany's great port city
of Hamburg.
On the Klopstockstrasse
was a second-rate hotel...
...the Pension Klopstock, which housed
the German High Command's...
...notorious school for spies.
Here were trained hundreds
of recruits for the Abwehr...
...Germany's super-secret espionage
and sabotage service.
Like Dietrich,
many of his classmates...
...had been recruited
in the United States.
And back to the United States
they would go...
...when they were properly equipped.
Synthesis of the FBI's
counterespionage offensive...
...in World War II
is the Christopher case...
...which opened, as great cases
often do, by accident.
A little accident
at Bowling Green in New York City.
Hey, look out!
Christopher, Christopher.
Might as well take it easy, Joe.
He's through.
Somewhere in the
dark web of war was Christopher...
...the dead man's companion...
...the man who had retrieved
his friend's briefcase and vanished.
Who was he?
He's got a Spanish
passport. Francisco Ruiez.
Hey, doc, look at this.
It's all in German.
Stuff about ships, I think.
Yes.
That means, uh...
That means incendiary bullet.
"Weight 148 grains. Load 46 grains.
Dupont 11-27 powder. "
Can you read Spanish too?
Something funny about this.
We better get his fingerprints
and turn them over to the FBl.
Fingerprint him.
To the desk of
FBI Inspector George A. Briggs...
...came the report
on the death of Francisco Ruiez.
In the FBI Identification Division...
...are nearly 100 million sets
of fingerprints...
...so organized that it takes
less than five minutes...
...to identify a set of fingerprints
with those on file.
No fingerprints were listed
under the name of Francisco Ruiez.
But regardless of name,
once his print was classified...
...a search for the individual's identity
was a simple matter.
There's something coming now.
Yeah, it's in cipher.
This stuff is fugitive.
We better get a shot of it
before it dissolves.
Set.
Okay.
- Send a copy to Cryptanalysis.
- Yes, sir.
- Is this what you're looking for?
- I'll see.
It certainly is. Thanks a lot, Quinn.
Here it is, Mr. Briggs.
Oh, thank you.
That translates, "Mr. Christopher
will concentrate on Process 97. "
- What's that?
- Well, Herr Christof...
...Mr. Christopher will concentrate
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