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Dr. '''Ignatz Theodor Griebl''' (born 1899) was a [[German-American]] physician and spymaster based in [[Yorkville, New York]]. Griebl was born in [[Bavaria]] in 1899 and served as a first lieutenant artillery officer during the [[First World War]]. He was wounded on the Italian front where he met his future wife, Austrian nurse Maria Ganz.<ref>''The Game of the Foxes'', by [[Ladislas Farago]], page 20</ref>

He studied medicine at the University of Munich and arrived in the United States in 1925 where the new doctor and his wife started a practice in [[Bangor, Maine]]. In 1928 they moved their practice to the German-American community of Yorkville, New York specializing in obstetrics.<ref>''The Game of the Foxes'', by Ladislas Farago, page 20</ref> He took American citizenship and became an officer in US Army medical reserve.

==Spying for Germany==
On March 3, 1934 he contacted [[Joseph Goebbels]] by letter offering his services to spy for Germany.<ref>''Insidious Foes: the Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front'', By Francis MacDonnell, page 51</ref> Goebbels forwarded the information to the [[Gestapo]] who at the time was assembling an international group of police spies and informants.<ref>''The Game of the Foxes'', by Ladislas Farago, page 21</ref> The Gestapo turned the lead over to its Maritime Bureau which had a network of couriers aboard German ocean liners.

Dr. Griebl began his spy ring by recruiting from the pro-Hitler group [[Friends of New Germany]] which he had joined in 1933. Here he first recruited [[Axel Wheeler-Hill]] and [[Oskar Karl Pfaus]] who on their own would become involved in larger spy rings. Back in Bangor, Maine, Dr. Griebl recruited an old friend who worked as a engineer at the Bath Iron Works obtaining a blueprint copy of a newly designed warship.<ref>''The Game of the Foxes'', by Ladislas Farago, page 22</ref>

In October 1934 [[William Lonkowski]] who had been spying for the Abwehr in American since 1927 called upon Dr. Griebl and both agreed to combine their resources.<ref>''The Game of the Foxes'', by Ladislas Farago, page 23</ref>

==Pseudonymous author==
In 1935 he self-published a book under the name '''William Hamilton''' titled ''Salute the Jew!''<ref>''Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring'', by Peter Duffy, page 304</ref>

==Escape==
Eventually the spy ring he developed in America was compromised and Dr. Griebl was brought in by the FBI and given a polygraph examination. The FBI was satisfied with his polygraph results and he was released. On May 10, 1938 Dr. Griebl escaped to Germany aboard the ship liner ''Bremen''.<ref>''The FBI: a History'', By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, page 102</ref>

He later became a gynecologist in Vienna.

==Trivia==
Hollywood would base the 1939 film ''[[Confessions of a Nazi Spy]]'' upon the Griebl-[[Lonkowski]] spy ring.

==Notes==
<small><references/></small>

==See also==
* [[Duquesne Spy Ring]]
* ''[[Die Bruecke]]''

==External links==
* [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2034320/posts "U. S. JURY INDICTS 18 AS SPIES IN REICH GOVERNMENT’S PAY; SECRET SERVICE HEAD NAMED" ''The New York Times'', June 21, 1938]
* [http://antipolygraph.org/documents/griebl-fbi-polygraph.pdf FBI documents relating to Ignatz T. Griebl]
* [http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2007/december/espionage_120307 A Byte Out of History Spies Caught, Spies Lost, Lessons Learned (FBI website)]
* [http://fbistudies.com/books/origins-of-fbi-ci/chapter-one/ Chapter One from “The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence” by Raymond J. Batvinis]

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