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and correspondence habits of each actual and suspected espionage
agent." The man who could do it was Armen Abdian, a former New
Englander who had come to Hawaii in the prewar Army, had taught a
cram course for prospective West Pointers, and had gone into business in
Honolulu.
The primary detection of clandestine communications took place in
the censorship field stations. Largest of all was New York's, filling a huge
building on Lower Eighth Avenue. About 4,500 postal examiners scanned
the snowdrifts of mail that piled onto their desks each day. They excised
all matter that might have injured the Allied war effort, and they looked
closely for traces of hidden messages. Censorship had catalogued the
occupations and hobbies of its examiners. A balance sheet would be
given to an accountant to see whether it made financial sense; an
amateur horticulturist could tell whether a discussion of tulip beds rang
true. Once an examiner in New York was perturbed by a letter from
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