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[handwritten on corner]Opened by S.M. Defense Com.

National Defense Headquarters c/o F.B.J Augusta, Maine

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Dear Sirs:

Perhaps you will not welcome this letter, but the following things are taking place every day.

A dark green coach with four husky men called at Broch's log cabin gas station today, but parked behind the station and bought no gas.

One man went into house nearby. The rest stayed in car I believe. Another car called after gas, whose driver was a woman very friendly

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to Mrs. Broch. She could raise no-[?] with the horn, yet the green car sat in sight. She drove away. Shortly after the man who left the car to go into house, came out, got into dark green coach with the other men and drove up towards N. Anson and Canada. He sells Sunoco gas, but no sign in station.

Broch is an alien. Came into Maine about 1919.

Those men could have been German, en route to Canada.

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They have found a nest of them in Aroostook Co. so I hear. There are plenty of tourist places going north, especially around Wyman Lake, where tourists seem to live now.

Broch is peculiar. Has no steady job half the time. It would be a good thing to investigate every tourist camp in northern Maine, as well as lumber and G. Northern Paper Co. camps, and Kennebec Log Driving Camps also. They could contain a large number of German soldiers and arsenals. The Communists, hereabouts, say that there will be an uprising soon.

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They say before September. We are poorly prepared for a revolution. No interim defenses at all. This Communist & Nazi revolution will be soon.

There are plenty of fields near town in R2 [?] where Parachute armies could drop. One is directly opposite my house, almost concealed from Highway by dense foliage. A good road through woods from that field, leads directly into the [?] of Madison. There are no defenses of any kind for that kind of an interior attack which Germany [?] is planning soon to do.

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Many of these tourist camps are German and Communist spies, who are working continually to help Hitler & Stalin, by traveling and marking good places in hopes for parachute armies to drop and stragetical points like dams, bridges, etc.

I have personally seen the following cars doing this, marking maps, in strategical points near town.

1. 326-U90 Ill. Four women, one old, one young, marking field below Madison near Bird Lake.
2. 5G 7537 New York World's Fair man, swarthy, 5'-6" staying in [?]. Called at restaurant in Norridgewock. Talked confidentially with waitress.
3. 719-993 Mass. parked on state road from Norridgewock to Skow. Driver invisible.

Jordon's Refrigeration Truck #3 would stand investigation. The driver is Communist I believe.

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We have 100,000 active Nazi spies in our country, busy every day in plotting, or canvassing for new converts amongst the German American people or other nationalities. Our Depression has even made many native Americans for Hitler and Stalin also [?].