COL. AMEN: You were acquainted with Draeger, were you not?
COL. AMEN: What was his position in the United States, insofar as your organization was concerned?
BOHLE: He was a liaison man (Vertrauensmann) of the Auslands-Organisation for the individual Party members in the United States.
COL. AMEN: He was what was known as a confidential agent, was he not?
BOHLE: No, he was not, naturally, but we had...
COL. AMEN: And as a matter of fact, you called him a “confidential agent” in your interrogation, did you not?
BOHLE: No. I called him a “Vertrauensmann,” and this was translated into “confidence man.” I did...
COL. AMEN: Well, I will accept that correction. He was a confidence man for your organization in the United States. Correct?
COL. AMEN: And in addition to him there were other confidence men of your organization in the United States? Correct?
COL. AMEN: Will you tell the Tribunal what their names were and where they were located?
BOHLE: One was Wiedemann, consul general in San Francisco. There was also Consul Dr. Gissling in Los Angeles and Consul Von Spiegel in New Orleans I believe, but I do not know; perhaps it was Boston. It was one of the two. I believe these are all.
COL. AMEN: And each of those individuals made reports from time to time which were forwarded to you through Draeger. Is that not a fact?
BOHLE: No, they made no reports to me. I cannot recall that I ever saw a report from Wiedemann, Spiegel, or Gissling. That was not their job.
COL. AMEN: Draeger made the reports to you, did he not?
BOHLE: Draeger made the reports to the Auslands-Organisation in Berlin or to me personally. Mostly to my office.
COL. AMEN: And contained in those reports were various items of information collected by other confidential agents? Isn’t that correct?
BOHLE: I do not know, because I am not familiar with these reports and I cannot say whether there was anything to report. We had no Party organization in the United States, because it had been dissolved by Rudolf Hess in April 1933.
COL. AMEN: So you say; but you nevertheless had an individual in Germany whose duty it was to read and pass upon these reports from Draeger as they came in. Is that not a fact?
BOHLE: So far as I know, and I believe my information is correct; the reports that we received were of a purely technical nature. We merely had few Party members in the United States whose card index and membership fees had to be looked after in order to preserve their privileges as Party members. Political activity in the United States was forbidden and did not actually exist.