NEW YORK, July 8, 1917.
CONTENTS
1. A MOMENTOUS DOCUMENT
I find an old letter containing a strange bit of scandal -- Its contents draw me into the service of the Kaiser.
2. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND
I impersonate a Russian Prince and steal a Treaty -- What the Treaty contained and how Germany made use of the knowledge.
3. A BOTANIST IN THE ARGONNE
Of what comes of leaving important papers exposed -- I look and talk indiscreetly, and a man dies.
4. "CHERCHEZ LA FEMME!"
I am sent to Geneva and learn of a plot -- How there are more ways of getting rid of a King than by blowing him up with dynamite.
5. THE STRONG ARM SQUAD
Germany displays an interest in Mexico, and aids the United States for her own purposes -- The Japanese-Mexican Treaty and its share in the downfall of Diaz.
6. A HERO IN SPITE OF MYSELF
My letter again I go to America and become a United States soldier -- Sent to Mexico and sentenced to death there I join Villa's army and gain an undeserved reputation.
7. ENTER CAPTAIN VON PAPEN
War -- I re-enter the German service and am appointed aide to Captain von Papen -- The German conception of neutrality and how to make use of it -- The plot against the Welland Canal.
8. MY INTERVIEW WITH THE KAISER
I go to Germany on a false passport -- Italy in the early days of the war -- I meet the Kaiser and talk to him about Mexico and the United States.
9. MY ARREST AND CONFESSION
In England, and how I reached there -- I am arrested and imprisoned for fifteen months -- What von Papen's baggage contained -- I make a sworn statement.
10. GERMANY'S HATE CAMPAIGN IN AMERICA
The German intrigue against the United States -- Von Papen, Boy-Ed and von Rintelen, and the work they did -- How the German-Americans were used and how they were betrayed.
11. MISCHIEF IN MEXICO
More about the German intrigue against the United States -- German aims in Latin America -- Japan and Germany in Mexico -- What happened in Cuba?
12. THE COMPLETE SPY
The last stand of German intrigue -- Germany's spy system in America -- What is coming?
MY ADVENTURES AS A GERMAN SECRET SERVICE AGENT
CHAPTER IA MOMENTOUS DOCUMENT
I find an old letter containing a strange bit of scandal, and its contents draw me into the service of the Kaiser.
ON March 29, 1916, the steamer Finland was warped into its Hudson River dock and I hurried down the gangway. I was not alone. Agents of the United States Department of Justice had met me at Quarantine; and a man from Scotland Yard was there also a man who had attended me sedulously since, barely two weeks before, I had been released in rather unusual circumstances from Lewes prison in England; the last of four English prisons in which I had spent fifteen months in solitary confinement waiting for the day of my execution.
My friend from Scotland Yard left me very shortly; soon afterwards I was testifying for the United States Government against Capt. Hans Taiischer,- husband of. Mine. Johanna Gadski, the diva. Tauscher, American agent of the Krupps and of the German Government, was charged with complicity in a plot to blow up the Welland Canal in Canada during the first month of the Great War. During the course of the trial it was shown that von Papen and others (including myself) had entered into a conspiracy to violate the neutrality of the United States. I had led the expedition against the Welland Canal, and I was telling everything I knew about it. Doubtless you remember the newspapers of the day.
You will remember how, at that time, the magnitude of the German plot against the neutrality of the United States became finally apparent. You will remember how, in connection with my exposure, came the exposure of von Igel, of Rintelen, of the German Consul-General at San Francisco, Bopp, and many others. With all these men I was familiar. In the activities of some of them I was implicated. It was I, as I have said, who planned the details of the Welland Canal plot. I shall tell the true story of these activities later.
But first let me tell the story of how I came to be concerned in these plots and to do that I must go back over many years; I must tell how I first became a member of the Kaiser's Secret Diplomatic Force (to give it a name) and incidentally I shall describe for the first time the real workings of that force.
