Armgaard Karl Graves

Armgaard Karl Graves
"Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves, photographed in his office in New York since his arrest." (Nov. 1916)
Alias(es)	Paul W. Graumann, Paul Gunther, Paul Peter Gunther von Kanitz, etc.
Born	possibly Max Meincke 1877-1882 Switzerland or Germany
Died	Date of death unknown
Spouse(s)	Helen Gunther

Armgaard Karl Graves, also known as (or accused of being) Louis Clement Van Norden, Paul W. Graumann, Paul Gunther, Paul Peter Gunther von Kanitz, etc., was a German (or Swiss) "double agent" for the German Naval Intelligence and the British MI5 before the start of the First World War, later emigrating to the United States, where he engaged in black mail, extortion, swindling, and scams of all character, resulting in his deportation in 1937 and subsequent disappearance.

Selected Bibliography

• Graves, Armgaard Karl (1914), The Secrets of the German War Office, London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., https://archive.org/details/secretsofgermanw00grav 
• Graves, Armgaard Karl, "How I Became a Secret Agent", Fifty Amazing Secret Service Dramas, Odhams Press 
• Graves, Armgaard Karl (1915), The Red Secrets of the Hohenzollerns, New York: A. L. Burt Company, https://archive.org/details/secretsofhohenzo00gravrich 

Reading

• Boghardt, Thomas (2004), "Armgaard Karl Graves", Spies of the Kaiser: German Covert Operations in Great Britain During the First World War Era, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 60-63, https://www.amazon.com/Spies-Kaiser-Operations-Britain-Antonys/dp/1403932484/?tag=apopheniacs-20