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Plot to Injure Prominent Jews Indicated in Nazi Chart Seized by Fbi

August 4, 1942
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The existence of a Nazi plot to injure hundreds of prominent American Jews was indicated here in material seized when Federal Bureau of Investigation agents rounded up 150 German aliens in this city yesterday.

A chart found in the home of one of the arrested men listed the names of hundreds of prominent Jews, with their occupation, including any public office they held and close associates. In some cases words which had appeared next to some of the names had been scraped off, apparently with a pen knife. It is believed that the words indicated criminal intent of some kind. The FBI laboratory may be able to restore enough of the letters to make the deleted words legible, it was said here.

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