The possibility of the existence of branches of the “United Nordics Confederation,” the leaders of which were arrested in New York, was under investigation today as it became known that in addition to the youths rounded-up here, there are at least 61 more whom the police have difficulty finding because some of them are service men and college students scattered across this country and in Mexico and Canada.
Police officials were considering today calling on the FBI to help them round-up for questioning the 61 young men whose names were listed in a notebook of “sympathizers” and “friends” kept by George Leggett, self-styled commander of the “United Nordics Confederation.” There was a possibility that the FBI was already involved in the case, because Leggett and eight youthful accomplices had planned to rob a local bank for funds to establish a camp where they would teach racial purity and other Nazi-like theories. Leggett, who used the Prussian alias of George von Licter, boasted to police officials that the United Nordics Confederation “is a lot bigger than you think.”
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