Hitler's Secret War in South America, 1939-1947 : German Military Espionage and Allied Counterespionage in Brazil

382 Pages·1999·19.79 MB·English

by  Stanley E Hilton

HITLER'S
SECRET WAR
IN SOUTH German Military
Espionage and Allied
AMERICA Counterespionage
in Brazil
1939-1945
Stanley E. Hilton
Louisiana State University Press
Baton Rouge
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Hilton, Stanley E 1940-
Hitler's secret war in South America, 1939-1945.
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Includes index.
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1. World War, 1939-1945—Secret service—Germany. 2. World War, 1939-1945-
Brazil. 3. Brazil—History—1930-1954. 4. Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945. I. Title.
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And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying
Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan. . . .
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said
unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the
mountain:
And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth
therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be fat or
lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good
courage.
Numbers 13:1-2, 17-19
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Better lose a battle than lose a source of secret intelligence.
Sir William Stephenson, chief of
British Security Coordination, 1940-45
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Contents
Introduction to the American Edition 1
1) Target: Brazil 12
2) "Alfredo" and the "Bolivar" Network 28
3) The Bolivar Tangents 51
4) "King" and the Message Center Brazil 64
5) Swastika and Sigma 82
6) The Hungarian Connection 94
7) The Sao Paulo Listening Post 106
8) The Starziczny Case 115
9) Pearl Harbor and Its Consequences 154
10) The Allied Counterattack 183
11) The Collapse 230
12) "Captain Garcia" and the Greenshirts 262
13) The Buenos Aires-Sao Paulo-Toronto Circuit 280
14) The Abwehr's Last Salvo in Brazil 295
List of Abbreviations 313
Notes 315
Bibliography 339
Index 347
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List of Illustrations
following page 110
Map
Albrecht Engels
Captain Hermann Bohny
Herbert von Heyer
Theodor Schlegel
Friedrich Kempter
Frank Walter Jordan
Clandestine radio used by Frank Walter Jordan
Janos Salamon
following page 234
Sandor Mocsan
Elemer Nagy
Ilona Gaal
Josef Starziczny
Albert Schwab
Karl Miigge
Minister of War Eurico Dutro and Police Chief Filinto Muller
Getiilio Vargas with Nelson Rockefeller (1942)
Elpfdio Reali, the Sao Paulo detective who arrested Starziczny