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facts knew, for instance, that Paul Scharrenberg was a good man. So they repeated it as though it were gospel truth and they got very angry. A lot of that was inherent in this situation.

Nevertheless, we proceeded to plan the taking of testimony and to first examine the alien in proceedings, which was what was always done. An accusation is made. You have as much in sworn testimony as you can get, because informers won't always make a statement and take an oath to it, even though they may be reliable and responsible informers. Then you call the alien. If you think he is about to escepe your jurisdiction, you may even arrest him and you may hold him in order to question him. You question him privately. It's the same sort of a technique as examining in supplementary proceedings.

Our questions were all worked out very carefully. The plan of the inquiry was thought out. Up to this time there had been no public statements made, except, of course, this increasing demand to deport Bridges. What Bonham had turned up was not known. It was just known inside the Department, and not to everybody in the Department. It was known to the Commissioner of Immigration and the immigration officials, to Reilly, to me, to the Assistant Secretary. It was a closely held piece of knowledge.