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British embargo, Rieber sent Tex-
aco's tankers to neutral ports.
When the American press picked
up on the story, he said his actions
were simply a matter of "good
business."
Germany agreed to pay Texa-
co with three tankers from Ham-
burg. Rieber made the deal in
Berlin with Hermann Goering,
the second-highest ranking Nazi
in Germany. Goering also asked
Rieber to help secure American
diplomatic support for Germany
— a request with which Rieber
willingly obliged. In 1940, Rieber
presented Goering's peace plan
to President Roosevelt, but the
president was not interested and
told him to cut his ties with the
Nazis.
Although the United States
had not yet entered the war, Eng-
land was suffering regular bomb-
ings by the Nazis. Rieber stepped
forward once again in an effort to
help Germany.
In June 1940, attorney Ger-
hardt Westrick came from Ger-
many to New York to dissuade
American business from supply-
ing Britain with arms. At Rieber's
orders, Texaco paid Westrick a
salary, gave him an office in the
Texaco headquarters in Manhat-
tan, and set him up in a large
house in the suburbs where
Westrick entertained influential
businessmen.
Meanwhile, a Texaco repre-

sentative in Germany secured a
place for a Nazi agent inside Tex-
aco's New Yoric. headquarters. The
agent managed to get his hands
on a number of reports, including
a review of the American aircraft
industry, which he transmitted
back home.
The head of British intelligence
in New York discovered the agent
and broke the story to the New

York Herald Tribune.

The U.S. government also
heard from a Texaco employee
who denounced Rieber as a secret
agent of Hitler. The employee
characterized most of Texaco's
leadership as "pro-Nazi and open-
ly boasts of it, as well as being will-
ing to do all within its power to
injure the English and help the
Germans."
With Rieber publicly discredit-
ed, Texaco's shares fell on the
stock market. Following an angry
shareholders' meeting, Texaco
chairman James Moffett forced.
Rieber to resign (though later Mof-
fett, along with other U.S. oil com-
pany executives, would urge
President Roosevelt into a formal
relationship with Saudi Arabia,
despite King Ibn Saud's close ties
to Hitler).
Perhaps not surprisingly, Tex-
aco's official company history does
not include the Rieber-Nazis
episode. A Texaco executive later
characterized the affair as "all got
up by the Jews." ❑

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