letter is very long and detailed. I quote in part:

We must get busy organizing grid-lattice-work or skeleton for a
military staff throughout the nation, and in this we need
representatives of fascist groups, and we need Americans with
whom these others may be incorporated.... All must believe in
being ruthless in an emergency....

The political and the military organizations must not be
unified. They have different aims. With one hand we offer the
public a potential program. Whether they accept it or not and
whether they wish to return to the ideals embodied in a
representative form of a constitutional federal republic or not,
is of secondary importance. Of first importance is the need of
the emergency military organization to function simultaneously
should our enemies revolt if we should win politically or should
we revolt if our enemies win politically.

On January 19, 1938, Deatherage received a letter signed with the code
name "Laura and Clayton." "Laura" is Hermann Schwinn. This letter,
too, is long and goes into details on how best to organize the secret
military group and have it ready for instant action. The letter states
at one point:

After we do all this, now then we shall have the national
military framework all steamed up and oiled and coupled to the
multiplicity of working parts ready to appear on all fronts....

After "C.F.I." and "Laura and Clayton" had decided on the details of
the secret military body in which they needed the aid of "Nazi and
fascist" forces, they needed money and arms.

Early in January, Allen received from "Mrs. Fry and C. Chapman" four
hundred and fifty dollars for a trip to Washington, D.C. "Mrs. Fry and
C. Chapman" live in Santa Monica, but use Glendale, Calif, for a post
office address. This money was spent between January 13 and February
10, 1938, according to the expense account Allen turned in to the
Fry-Chapman combination.

Three days after Allen got the money (January 16, 1938), he received
from Schwinn a letter of introduction to Fritz Kuhn, addressed to the
_Amerikadeutscher Volksbund_, 178 E. 85th Street, New York City. The
letter was written in German. Following is the translation:

My Bund Leader:

The bearer of this letter is my old friend and comrade-in-arms,
Henry Allen, who is coming East on an important matter.

Mr. Allen knows the situation in Los Angeles and Califor