Operation Pastorius and Jonathan Daniels - 22 September 1942

This is part of an entry from Jonathan Daniels' wartime diary. Daniels served as editor of the News and Observer in Raleigh before becoming Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian Defense for Civilian Mobilization in 1942. This entry, dated almost two months after the a series of Nazi saboteurs were tried and executed for attempting to blow up various targets in the United States as part of Operation Pastorius, is interesting for the frankness of the language and the source, "J.E.H.", J. Edgar Hoover.

As a side note, one of the defense attorneys for the eight Nazi saboteurs was Kenneth C. Royall, who before the was was a practicing attorney in Raleigh and with Daniels a member of the North Carolina Council of National Defense, which oversaw the state Office of Civilian Defense.