You may have noticed in the papers
that a new proposal is on the tapis for a
Senate enquiry into foreign propaganda. The
proposal emanated from one of the more unfriendly
Senators who has many Germans in his State, and
is therefore in all probability aimed less at
unearthing German and Communistic propaganda
than at putting the Allies on the spot. A
highly placed American official who will have
to furnish information for the Senatorial
enquiry is well aware of the organised German
propaganda that is rife, and he has invited us
to furnish him very confidentially with as* uiuch
authentic evidence a6 possible that we may have
in our possession of Oeruian propagandist
activities/
Captain Sir James P. Paget, Bart., H.N.,
British Passport C >ntrol Officer,
25, Broadway,
New York City.        NMB:CB :DH

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activities in this country*    It will, I think,
give him some solid and patriotic pleasure to
make the enquiry something of a bommerang.
The Embassy itself will be getting
out from its own files a fully documented
memorandum on enemy propaganda as revealed in
the press, pamphlets, speeches of German officials,
etc., but we think it important to take full
advantage of this invitation.    The official in
question is trustworthy and we would like to
give him as much inside information as we properly
can about the personalities involved and their
organisation and background.    Yfe realise that
much of this ground is covered already by the
Dies Investigation, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation etc., and that there is little
information available to us that is not probably
already available to end to some extent from
these bodies.    Also we realise that there are
details in the kind of information that you may
have which we o ;ght to keep strictly to ourselves.
Subject to this, however, if you could let us
have/
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have a memorandum giving in an easily
digestible form as much circumstantial
evidence as you can of what the Germans are
doing in the way of propaganda, it would be
very useful for the purpose indicated above.
Any such memorandum had better be typed on
plain paper so as not to give away its source.
Yours ever,
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