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Time to do something about this article

This has been labelled as mostly unreferenced since 2009. Given the character of the claims about this person, these should be based on solid RS. They are not. The only ref on this page is a book about the mafia, with no page reference. I have thus reconstructed the page from the ground up - based on RS. For the sake of transparency, here is the part I have removed:

He was also the paymaster for German espionage and sabotage operations in the United States. In addition, he also arranged for forged passports and documents for German-Americans who wanted to return to fight for the German armed forces.

Albert and Naval Intelligence Captain Franz von Rintelen established a cover firm called the Bridgeport Projectile Company to purchase and destroy munitions that would otherwise be shipped to the Allied Forces. This operation has become known as the Great Phenol Plot.

He was exposed as a spy because of his association with George Sylvester Viereck, the editor of The Fatherland, a pro-German publication, who was himself under surveillance. He left his briefcase, which contained sensitive documents, on a tram, and it was picked up by one of BOI Director William Flynn's counter-intelligence officers, who was tailing him. The papers documented Albert's having spent $27 million to build up a spy network in the United States, using German money to fund dock strikes, attacks on shipping, and bombs planted in munitions plants.^[1] The papers were published in the New York World. However, no official actions were taken against Albert, and he did not return to Germany until the U.S. entered the war.^{[citation needed]}

If anyone can find RS to back this stuff up, please restore the sourced claims.Drow69 (talk) 13:53, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Dash, Mike (2009). The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-84737-173-7.

[1] Dash, Mike (2009). The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-84737-173-7.

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