WITNESS DISAPPEARS
AMERICAN SPY HUNT NAZI LEAVES BY LINER FEDERAL AGENTS PERTURBED (Received May 19. 7.25 p.m.) NEW YORK. May 19 The former national leader of American Nazis, Dr. Ignatz Greibl, who was to have been one of the chief witnesses for the United States Government in the greatest spy hunt in a- time of peace, disappeared mysteriously only a few days before the opening of the grand jury's hearing of the case. Federal agents learned that Dr. Greibl sailed for Germany by the liner Bremen on Thursday and they requested the French authorities at Cherbourg to ask him to return "to the United States. However, the. captain would not allow them to make contact with him.
The Federal agents now are trying to ascertain whether Dr. Greibl was forced to go to Germany by threats.His wife laughs at the suggestion that he was kidnapped by Nazis, and says he will return in three weeks.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23042, 20 May 1938, Page 11
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