Guenther Reinhardt Dossier

Guenther Reinhardt Ddossier

I. Guenther Reinhardt in Alexander Vassiliev’s notes

on KGB foreign intelligence records, 1994-1995

Translation of original notes from KGB archival files by Alexander Vassiliev (1993-1996).

Translated by Steve Shabad, reviewed and edited by Alexander Vassiliev and John Earl Haynes (2007)

Pagination and formatting track the handwritten original notebook. … Marginal comments in the left

margin are chiefly page numbers from the archival file while those in the right margin are Vassiliev’s topic designations, his own comments, or notes to himself. Endnotes were added in translation.

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Yellow_Notebook_No.4_Translated.pdf

Yellow Notebook #4                               97

[Source document referenced to KGB File No. 16695, vol. 1, entitled "Spies", pp. 33, 34, 35, 40]

p. 33  To Yagoda, Agranov 11.04. [April 11] 1935

“A Jewish spy org. exists in NY under the name of the “Anti-Defamation League” and is

headed by Prince. Prince is a former newspaper employee for the Hearst press. He is 40 years

of age.

In connection with the Dickstein committee’s investigation of Nazi activities in the US,

Prince’s org. has spent 200,000 dollars: the funds were raised among the wealthy Jewish

population.

Among Prince’s agents were: Gunther [sic] Reinhardt and Dorothy Hering of 935 Park Avenue.

Dorothy Hering’s task was to cultivate Royal Scott Gulden (head of the Order of ‘76) and

Ralph M Easley(44) of the National Civic Federation.

Hering is described as a highly skilled agent.

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p. 33     The source surmises that Prince’s organization has material about the activities of the Am.

Com. Party.

Financial assistance is provided to Prince’s organization by Felix Warburg, who is connected

to the Kuhn, Loeb & Co. banking house. Warberg [sic] provided the assistance secretly, since he

p. 34     didn’t want his name to appear in the press because his brother Max Warburg is a banker living in

Hamburg.

Samuel Untermyer, one of the organizers of the boycott of German goods in the US, reported

that Max Warburg is sending Nazi agents to his brother, Felix Warburg, who helps them get

jobs, especially on the banking line.”

p. 35     In January 1937 it was reported to Yezhov that the US has 75 so-called “brown houses,”

which are a center of Hitlerite propaganda and espionage.

p. 40     Memorandum.

“Nord has been instructed to find out from John which Nazi leaders he knows besides those     John

already reported, whom he mentions in report No. 45-propagandists, journalists, fascist

trooper leaders and so forth. In the Nazis work Nord should look for their connection to

Trotskyites, both in America and against the USSR.” [for the trials](45).       5.04.37

44 “Ralph M. Easley” badly garbled in the original notebook as “Ralph Melay.”

45Vassiliev note to himself. [The "trials" definitely refer to Moscow show trials.]

II.

Guenther Reinhardt and Ludwig Lore

In his 1952 book, Crime Without Punishment, Reinhardt told about his relationship with Ludwig Lore – a former Communist, a free-lance journalist and a Soviet mercenary spy from 1933 to 1937:

I had known Lore since 1928 when, in a heated, public political debate, we had been opponents. The same night, despite the conflict on the platform, we became friends. I had no illusions about Lore’s political position. He had been brutally treated by the Communists. He fought them bitterly and relentlessly. Yet, he did not fight them, at least immediately, with the powerful weapons of exposure that were so obviously at his disposal. He was dedicated to the Marxist social revolution, although embittered by the Russian version and domination of that revolution. He was not, however, as some writers have suggested, secretly using his defection from the Party as a cover for clandestine membership in the Soviet secret police.

My proof of that is that in 1941, Lore, as I was, was part of a secret United States operation. This operation, the scope and objective of which has not yet been revealed, had powers stemming directly from the White House. Its personnel was known only to the members of the group itself. No other investigative body was aware of its existence. And, as an indication of the depth of its secrecy cover, everyone in the group, even an official of ambassadorial rank, was obliged to handle even typing and filing work personally and privately.

Lore, beyond his participation in this – one of the few “secret” missions never penetrated by Red Agents – was also an active and, most important, effective cooperator in the fight against the Soviet secret police. If Lore did not fight fire with fire – if he could not bring himself to deliver up old associates to calamity, it was simply that he was an individual of singular integrity and personal morality.

At the time of the Poyntz case [Reinhardt is referring here to the once famous case of the mysterious disappearance of a CP USA functionary, Juliet Poyntz --  indicating Reinhardt was discussing the period around mid-1937] my association with Lore was strictly personal. Lore at that time was writing a foreign affairs column for the New York Post entitled “Behind the Cables.” I was ghosting a similar column, “The European Whirligig,” for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Lore and I met often at his amazingly colorful home in Brooklyn, to compare notes on our separate sources of information abroad. Moreover, because of his obviously superior contacts for obtaining information about the Communist Party, I had told him of my connection with the FBI. His reticence about talking publicly of his former comrades, it was felt, might be overcome by the personal basis of our relations. The relationship did, in fact, pay rich dividends of information.

Among these enormously useful informative services rendered the government in this collaboration was Lore’s tip-off to me about a German who had contacted him and who, Lore assured me, was an extremely clever operative of the Soviet espionage underground in this country. In order to get a line on this man – but also because Lore liked the man’s obvious superb intellect, repeatedly told me of his fine personal qualities, and hoped that eventually he might “turn” him – Ludwig befriended this man, often inviting him to luncheons which were such a delightfully memorable feature of the Lore household. I was invited to one of these luncheons in order to get a look at the man so that I should be able to report to the FBI his physical description. After my report was in, the Bureau by some superb detective work quickly established his identity.

The result was that two FBI agents visited the office of the Time magazine.

That is how Whittaker Chambers‘ first contact with the FBI came about!

As Chambers reveals in his book, Witness (page 392), he learned recently from a security  agency, not the FBI, that Lore around 1941 turned him in to the FBI and pays tribute to Lore’s patriotism in actually working with the U.S. Government when it was widely believed that Lore’s interests lay on the other side.

My elation at having been the first to report Chambers to a security agency is somewhat dampened today by the recollection that I reported him as being a highly educated German who liked to convey the impression that he was a native American! I considered Chambers’s slight American accent when he spoke German as an affectation! ¹

Given the clues in Lore’s FBI file, as of 1941, Reinhardt and Lore appear to have worked for the Research and Analysis Branch (R&A) of the Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI) – the nation’s first peacetime, non-departmental intelligence organization, which was founded in July 1941 and known at the time as the Donovan Committee. Beginning in early 1942, the R&A branch came under the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) when COI split into the OSS (handling covert operations) and the OWI, or Office of War Information (handling propaganda functions). Amazingly, Lore’s FBI FOIA file included a few reports from a confidential informant, whose name was redacted. These reports closely trackedReinhardt’s account in his 1952 book, which enabled me to identify that informant as Guenther Reinhardt. Here is how Reinhardt described Lore’s work to the FBI:

LUDWIG LORE told me that he is now doing confidential work for the COORDINATOR OF INFORMATION for which he is paid $75. – in cash each week. His work consists of European political analyses and confidential reports on Communist situations. He makes one to two written reports per week and his reports average six to ten type-written pages. He works with a group under direction of DR. POOLE; Mr. Wiley (former American Minister to Latvia) and a Mr. GEBHARDT of the State Department. LORE stated that this group is the only one of high officials of the Donovan Committee which realizes the influence and danger of the Communists in Washington government offices, internal American politics and the international picture. LORE told me that Messrs. POOLE and WILEY had become so alarmed over the ability of undercover Communists inside the Donovan Committee (Coordinator of Information) to obtain even the most secret documents and reports that they made special arrangements to safeguard the confidential reports under their jurisdiction. LORE added that the Communists recently had had access to secret reports of the White House, Army, Navy, Department of State, Department of Justice, etc., which these agencies never dreamed would get out of the hands of Colonel Donovan. LORE also stated that the Donovan Committee was being used by some departments (he did not specify which) for obtaining confidential information and reports of other departments. ²

According to an anonymous report from August 17 1937, discovered in Lore’s FBI file, as of that date Reinhardt had already served as an FBI confidential informant – reporting regularly on his conversations with Lore, who in this report looks like a prolific source:

Saw Ludwig Lore at his home in Brooklyn by appointment on Monday afternoon August 16^th. Previously I have talked to him on the S.A. Kumgeholm on the 11^th when at his request I had gone down the bay to meet him upon his arrival from Europe. While abroad Lore communicated with me from Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Oslo. On the ship I … finally discovered Lore, his oldest son Carl and the latter’s wife in Third Class. … Going up the bay I gave him a summary of the previous weeks news so he could write a fresh column with a tie-up with the material he brought back from Europe.

Yesterday afternoon Lore gave me a brief account of the more important people he had seen. They include everyone worthwhile in the Communist and Socialist parties in England, France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Sweden. If necessary I can later on supplement all the names but am confining myself here to some of the most important ones. Lore had long conversation with Yvon Delbos, French Foreign Minister and with Senator Marcel Gachin, head of the French Communist Party and editor in chief of the Humanite, official organ of the French C.P. In Brussels he

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conferred with Louis De Brouckere, head of the Second (Socialist) Internationale, and the Belgian Socialist leaders Hyusmans [sic] and Vandervelde. In Stockholm he saw a number of leading German Communists in exile.

… Lore emphasized the growing united front movement which he said he found abroad. He underlined how Socialists and Communists in all the countries visited were making sincere concessions to each other and that the prospects for a world united front movement broad enough to include liberals of all hues was more than a possibility today. ³ That the danger of fascism or rather the bourgeois fright of fascism in the democratic countries was a  great factor in shifting the center of gravity in national politics more and more to the left. Lore stated that he returned to America with what amounts to a conviction with him that the united front movement was on the march here too. He fortified his argument by quoting some of the foreign statesmen he had talked to who he added seemed better informed about the inside goings on of the Roosevelt administration than any of the supposed big shots in Washington. Lore mentioned particularly Ambassador Bullitt (see further on in this report) as a source of his own information on that subject and as the informant of leading left wing people in the various European countries. ⁴

Lore volunteered the information that “the only fly in the ointment of brotherly left-wing harmony were his own friends the Trotskyites.” He stated that though he was a personal friend of Trotsky and many of his collaborators and although he was a member of the Trotsky Defense Committee he could not go along with “those crazy terrorists.” …

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… In the same breath Lore blamed the official Communist Party, particularly the American C.P., for the situation. … Lore attributed some of the defections to the fact that the American Communist party “and the reigning Moscow bunch” had become so static that a real, ardent revolutionary could not very well find satisfaction in that routine party work which did not hold out any promise for the World Revolution.

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Lore then spoke about the marvelous organization which the American Communists had perfected in connection with the Spanish situation. He told me of the lists that are kept in Paris by the French Communists – supplied by new York – and a host of volunteer workers, Americans residing in Paris, of all left wingers who fight in Spain, do other work and [are] mere visitors. That they have double lists giving all the aliases and also the real names as most American Communists fighting in Spain have gone under aliases. This Lore explained was on account of the fact that so many of the Communists who have gone from the U.S. into the Spanish war are not American citizens and many of them have also originally entered the U.S. illegally. The C.P. of America, so Lore says has guaranteed to every man and woman who left the U.S.

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that they will get them back into the country again regardless of their immigration status. Lore says that one of the sets of these lists and card indexes are kept at the office of the HUMANITE and one at the Spanish Embassy in Paris, but that there are at least two more sets in Paris alone. He was pretty sure he said that other sets were being kept in Madrid and Valencia. …

… The American passport card index of the Franco-American-Spanish Communist crowd in Paris is supposed to contain close to 100,000 cards. ⁵

 

Lore then told about his long talks with “his dear old friend comrade Bullitt who has been an intimate of mine ever since we both worked in the old Socialist Party.” … He stated that Bullitt was doing a wonderful job both as ambassador and as a comrade in keeping the “crowd” over there informed on the inside goings on in Washington. Lore stated that Bullitt had re-assured him and also the Europeans mentioned before that President Roosevelt privately was even much more left than the American public suspected. That for reasons of expediency – …

 

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- President Roosevelt was too shrewd to let on how far left he really was. But as soon as the American labor was firmly organized in class conscious labor unions of the C.I.O. type … Roosevelt would stake his regime on the sole support of labor and “smash the vested interests” whom at present he was trying to lull to sleep making then believe that he was not against business. ⁶

From my personal knowledge of Bullitt’s manner of speaking in circles of what he believes to be intimate friends I am almost convinced that Lore reported the conversation truthfully. However, I also know that Bullitt in those private conversations is more than inclined to exaggerate. … he often gives way  to his personal enthusiasm in conversations in Europe. Bullitt has done it for years. Further details can be supplied if desired. – Bullitt probably made all the above statements and they probably contain a grain of truth which he seems to have inflated vastly in his talk in order to impress his old friend Lore.

Lore than told me how he informed Bullitt that the wanted to go to Spain and how he asked him if Bullitt could do something for him as his passport was stamped in Washington “Not valid for travel in Spain.” Lore claims that Bullitt told him: “Nothing easier than that. I do that for dozens of comrades almost every day.” Lore says that Bullitt called in an official and within five minutes had the old stamp invalidated and had his passport amended to make it valid for travel in Spain.

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Lore added that Bullitt said “… Every time a comrade comes to me with the proper credentials he can have the thing changed if he insists on having a valid American passport. But most of the boys don’t give a damn anyway. They simply put their passport in their pockets and enter Spain on the q.t”

Lore related how the next day he went to see the press attaché at the Spanish Embassy in Paris …

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… the attache, he says simply repeated “You are undesirable because you are a friend of too many Trotskyites.” There the matter rested and Lore never got to Spain.

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Reinhardt had remained close to Lore till the latter’s death, and was present at Lore’s home at its time:

… I was, however, at Lore’s home when he died. It was by illness, not intent. He was suffering from acute uremia and had been taking treatments for it for some time. On July 8, 1942, a little over five years after Juliet’s [Juliet Poyntz] murder, I spoke to him as he lay in bed. I left him after a while and sat in his study. At 3:30 p.m. Mrs. Lore came into the study and told me that Ludwig was dead, suddenly, quietly dead. ⁸

Reinhardt immediately reported the details to the FBI:

As previously reported to Mr. Granville in a brief preliminary verbal report I had been the last person outside his family who saw LUDWIG LORE on his deathbed. At the request of the family I attended the cremation after the funeral services together with the immediate family and one other friend. ⁹

In his 1952 book, Reinhardt provided a fascinating description of the scene in Lore’s home:

Around me in the study, as she [Mrs. Lore] spoke, his files and jammed shelves seemed a mindless, masterless jumble. The mute voices of every meeting of the Comintern during Lore’s party career were in them. The documents in its committees, its instructions to its foreign agents, all rested in those files. And, most important of all, the silenced voice of Leon Trotsky, speaking from his grave and from his deep, sharp penetration of the Stalinist Iron Curtain, was somewhere in that study.

In the ten days between Lore’s death and his funeral I took steps to make sure that Lore’s monumental legacy would serve the right side. I arranged for the FBI to purchase Lore’s entire archives. … ¹⁰

According to Reinahrdt, he “arranged for the FBI to purchase Lore’s entire archives,” which he described as a rather competitive bid. He continued in his July 14, 1942 memo to the FBI:

Later at KARL LORE’s [Ludwig Lore'elder son] house he told me that the State Department and President’s advisory group were dickering with his mother (LUDWIG LORE’s widow, and secretary for 33 years) for a possible job for her and for his files and library.

Today I had a lunch date with KARL LORE but he had to break it because of the accumulation of work on his desk as department chief in the office of the Coordinator of Information. …

KARL LORE (he works under his pen name LEONARD CARLTON) told me today that for the time being his mother had no immediate financial worries: LUDWIG LORE had left a modest sum of insurance money. Furthermore the group in Washington the day after LORE’s death sent the widow a government check 100% in excess of the compensation for the entire month of July. This would mean a check for about $600. – Also they have offered her a job to do research work, but left the matter “sort of indefinite.” ¹¹

To strengthen the FBI’s bid to obtain Lore’s papers, Reinhardt offered his help in making a rival offer to Mrs. Lore:

One of my ideas is that it might be considered feasible that ostensibly I employ Mrs. Lore to do research for me at a small weekly stipend and to have her available for special studies at so and so much per piece. This might work out this way: A series of reports on the foreign-language political groups here and radical personalities in them, as the “regular” work which could be spread out over several months. Then if the Bureau has an investigation on a specific situation or individual where ordinary sources are insufficient and where LORE’s files or contacts seem likely to provide an accurate and satisfactory report I might ask her for a special “study” at a fee to be agreed on in advance. ¹²

Reinhardt finally won his bid for the FBI:

…. Mrs. Lore apparently wanted her husband’s monument, as I did, where it would serve for the benefit of America’s security. The FBI offer was accepted.

… together with two Special Agents, I packed the Lore archives…” ¹³

III.

Miscellaneous Biographical Details from the New York Times:

Williams-Reinhardt

Special to the New York Times

October 22, 1936

Newark, N.J., Oct. 21. – Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kenneth Williams of this city have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Helen Idonea Williams, to Guenther Phillippe Reinhardt of New York.

Miss Williams, who is a descendant of some of the early settlers of West Orange, was graduated from the New York School of Secretaries.

Mr. Reinhardt is a graduate of the Royal College of Mannheim and Heidelberg. He has done postgraduate research in economics, banking and statistics at Columbia University and is now a writer for American and foreign periodicals.

The wedding will take place in early Winter.

Dr. Reinhardt dies; Adviser to Kaiser; …

May 21, 1938

Dr. Reinhardt, retired German industrialist, died Thursday on Holland-Gravesend ship en route to London, according to word received here yesterday. He was 60 years old.

Dr. Reinhardt, an adviser of the Kaiser on financial and economic questions, was berated by the monarch for his insistence that America’s aid to the Allies would crush Germany if this country entered the World War, according to Dr. Reinhardt’s son, Guenther P. Reinhardt of New York. The son related that two days after the Kaiser’s abdication in 1918 the Kaiser said sadly to Dr. Reinhardt: “I guess you knew the Americans better than I did.”

[from Guenther Reinhardt's account] … Dr. Reinhardt… predicted American ammunition and troop shipments, and finally the Kaiser said:

“If you did not wear all these decorations for bravery I would strip you of your officer’s commission for giving vent to such treasonable ideas.”

Dr. Reinhardt was also a personal adviser of Prince Max of Baden, the last Imperial Chancellor.

Born of a Mannheim (Germany) family which had been identified with banking and steel since the sixteenth century, Dr. Reinhardt traveled to the United States for two years after being graduated from the universities at Strasbourg and Heidelberg. He became an officer of the Weil & Reinhardt Steel Corporation on his return to Germany, and in 1922 became chairman of the board.

During the World War Dr. Reinhardt served as major of cavalry on the Western and Russian fronts. He was special German envoy to Switzerland in 1907 and 1918, obtaining foodstuffs for the starving German population.

He had been an officer of many German and Swiss corporations and an official German representative at congresses of the International Chamber of Commerce. A trustee of the University of Heidelberg, he raised money for German universities in the United States in 1922.

For several years Dr. Reinhardt had been living at the Hague, The Netherlands.

Surviving are his widow, the former Lilli Zimmern; another son, George of Berlin, and a daughter, Dr. Hedwig Reinhardt of Berlin.

Heads Foreign Press Men

October 5, 1938

Raoul de Roussy de Sales, correspondent for the Paris-Soir, was re-elected unanimously president of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents …

… Guenther Reinhardt of Der Bund, Berne, Switzerland, was elected press secretary.

December 11 & 12, 1941

… Guenther Reinhardt of Der Bund, Switzerland, … complaining of U.S. censorship, joins other correspondents in protest …

Press Group in War Move

Foreign Association Drops All Japanese Members

December 10, 1941

Guenther Reinhardt, membership secretary of the Foreign Press Association, yesterday informed Stephen Early, President Roosevelt’s press secretary, that the association’s executive committee has dropped from membership all Japanese members and had canceled their credentials.

… Mr. Reinhardt, who represents Der Bund, Switzerland, …

Invasion Prayers Are Ready

May 24, 1944

[Reference stating that on May 18, 1944 Guenther Reinhardt announced that "invasion prayers" are ready - to be aired "at the time when the invasion comes." A strange announcement less than three weeks before D-Day, in view of the fact that the dating of the Operation "Overlord", as the Allied invasion was called in secret plans, was designated Top Secret.]

Murder and Mystery

Crime Without Punishment.

The Secret Soviet Terror Against America.

By Guenther Reinhardt. New York: Hermitage

House, 1952

By John H. Lichtblau

November 9, 1952

A former F.B.I. counterintelligence and McCarran committee investigator, Guenther Reinhardt, has added a collection of Soviet terror acts against the United States to communism’s ever-growing blood register of means toward its end. Unfortunately only a few of the cases selected by the author – such as those of Juliet Poyntz, Otto Ruhle and Horst Baerensprung – are both credible and authenticated. Most of the others seem implausible and conjectural and would need strong documentation to find full credence. …

…

The author engages in some slandering by innuendo. His favorite target seems to be refugees from Nazism. He says that scores of them came here as secret Soviet agents and that nearly all those who worked for the United States Civil Censorship Division in Germany “had a questionable past, …” including many who now work for the State Department. …

… Accusations not backed by evidence, questioning of the loyalty of representative groups of citizens and presentation of speculation as sensational fact…

Mr. Lichtblau, formerly with the United States Counter-Intelligence Corps in Germany…

Letters to the Editor

Mr. Reinhardt Objects

December 7, 1952

In reviewing my book “Crime Without Punishment” (Nov. 9), John H. Lichtblau makes fourteen misstatements of fact. …

1. Mr. Lichtblau describes me as a former McCarran Committee investigator.

I have not been an investigator, employee or official of that committee.

…

The entire chapter on Ludwig Lore shows my pursuance of this essential objective. (“protecting the loyal in ferreting out the subversives.”)

Letters to the Editor

Mr. Lichtblau replies

December 14, 1952

In last week’s letter column Gunther Reinhardt, author of “Crime Without Punishment” objected to some of the statements that had appeared in the review of his book by John H. Lichtblau. Mr. Reinhardt objected to being called a former McCarran Committee investigator, claimed that he had correctly called Karl Nierendorf a secret Soviet agent and that he had not slandered refugees from Nazism. In addition Mr. Reinhardt said that where he had charged former employees of American Military Government now working for the State Department as of dubious-loyalty, he had cited facts to prove it. Mr. Lichtblau answers in the following letter:

To the EDITOR:

I accept only the first objection as correct. The statement in his preface that the records of the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security had been available to him, plus the fact that the dust jacket describes him as consultant to several Congressional investigating committees, led me to believe he had worked for this committee.

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There is probably a kernel of truth in all these [Nierendorf] and other statements but such sweeping generalizations of specific and often typical incidents do – perhaps unintentionally – slander tens of thousands of citizens who, having experienced the horrors of one type of totalitarianism have long ago recognized communism as more of the same.

…

John H. Lichtblau

Washington, D.C.

“S.L.A. Tells Role of Theft Suspect”

Apr. 24, 1963

Guenther Reinhardt, charged with theft of records of the State Liquor Authority, was described yesterday by Donald S. Hostetter, the authority chairman, as “a volunteer informer who gave us a lot of accurate information and some that was pure fantasy.” … Reinhardt was arrested after allegedly peddling S.L.A. files to Detectives Joseph Ryan and Louis Tosi, who had posed as gangster friends of Franzese [John (Sonny) Franzese, Brooklyn underworld figure]. … Mr. Hostetter, a former special agent of the federal bureau of Investigation, was appointed S.L.A. chairman in December after the ouster of Martin C. Epstein. He said that Reinhardt had “been around [the Authority] for a long time” and had supplied information “right along” about “joints where homosexuals hang out.”

On April 24, 1963, The New York Times reported:

“… grand jury yesterday indicted Guenther Reinhardt on two counts of larceny…”

On April 1, 1964, it reported that “Guenther Reinhardt, an undercover investigator, made his 37^th court appearance yesterday since his arrest last April 5 on a charge of stealing documents…”

However, a report dated December 5, 1967, said:

“… Supreme Court Justice D. Schweitzer yesterday dismissed a 1963 indictment of third-degree grand larceny against Guenther Reinhardt, …”

Guenther Reinhardt, 63, Dies; Was a Writer and Investigator

December 3, 1968

Guenther Reinhardt a writer, government consultant and private investigator died yesterday at 63, lived at 206 W 21^st Str.

A member of the German Reinhardt banking family, Mr. Reinhardt was born in Mannheim in 1905. He came to the United States in 1925 and, until 1945, wrote for various Swiss and American publications, incl. the New York Daily News, Life, Look and Der Bund in Berne.

He also worked at the same time as a consultant and investigator for several United States Government agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1936 to 1943.

During WWII he was active in intelligence operations in Latin America and Europe and served with the Army Counter-Intelligence Corps in Europe in 1946-47. He was a special consultant to the Secretary of the Army and an interpreter at the Nuremberg Trial in 1948-49.

Upon his return to the United States, Mr. Reinhardt was the chief private investigator for Bartley C. Crum, the San Francisco lawyer and co-publisher of the New York Star. From 1960 to 1963  he worked for the Silas R. Franz Company, the New York insurance investigators.

During all this time, he supplied various state agencies, including the liquor authority, with information about the alleged underworld control and homosexual patronage of bars and nightclubs.

Mr. Reinhardt graduated from the Royal College in Mannheim, in 1922, and received a B.S. from the State University of Economics there three years later.

He was an author of several books, including The Jews in Nazi Germany, Source Materials for Psychological Warfare, Crime Without Punishment.

During my on-line search for more information about Reinhardt, I came across his name in the Online Archive of California – in the Register of the Papers of Alfred Kohlberg, an American entrepreneur and staunch anti-communist, who was a close ally of Senator Joseph McCarthy and a founding director of the John Birch Society:

Register of the Alfred Kohlberg Papers, 1944-1960

Online Archive of California, http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf0b69n3tv&chunk.id=c01-1.3.6.3&brand=oac

[Box 148.]
Regnery Company, Henry

Reinhardt, Guenther

Reischauer, Edwin O.

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