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+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | The Book and the Author | | | | John L. Spivak comes closer to the popular conception of the | | ace journalist than any other living writer. Combining the | | instinct of a detective with the resourcefulness of a | | reporter, and gifted with a hard-hitting, breezy style, he | | has time and again "scooped the world," "gotten the | | story"--despite powerful opposition and personal danger that | | might well have daunted less hardy souls. | | | | But there is an important difference that sets Spivak apart | | from most other gentlemen of the press. For several years he | | has devoted his bright and sharp pen solely to uncovering | | evidence of fascist activities in the United | | States--evidence that is credited with having set off | | several official investigations exposing un-American, | | foreign-dominated propaganda. | | | | SECRET ARMIES climaxes Spivak's exposures. His sensational | | inside story of Hitler's far-flung, under-cover poison | | campaign in the Americas would seem scarcely credible, were | | it not so thoroughly documented with original letters and | | records, citing chapter and verse, naming names, dates and | | places. His unanswerable, uncontradicted facts should go far | | toward jolting many of us out of our false sense of | | security. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+

Books by John L. Spivak

THE DEVIL'S BRIGADE

GEORGIA NIGGER

AMERICA FACES THE BARRICADES

EUROPE UNDER THE TERROR

SECRET ARMIES

The New Technique of Nazi Warfare

JOHN L. SPIVAK

MODERN AGE BOOKS, INC. 432 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT 1939 BY JOHN L. SPIVAK PUBLISHED BY MODERN AGE BOOKS, INC. 432 Fourth Avenue New York City

All rights in this book are reserved, and it may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the holder of these rights. For information address the publishers.

First Printing, February 1939 Second Printing, March 1939

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

Preface 7

I Czechoslovakia--Before the Carving 9

II England's Cliveden Set 17

III France's Secret Fascist Army 31

IV Dynamite Under Mexico 43

V Surrounding the Panama Canal 56

VI Secret Agents Arrive in America 73

VII Nazi Spies and American "Patriots" 84