 Liebold later came into contact with Brasol, who gave him a copy of the English translation of the "Protocols"; Liebold immediately handed it to William Cameron, appointed editor of the "Independent" after Pipp's resignation, and the forgery was published in serial form starting with the June 26, 1920 issue.Liebold also held Nazi sympathies; in September 1938, just two months after Ford received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, he was awarded the Order of the German Eagle, First Class, the second highest diplomatic honor of the Third Reich.Recently declassified documents from the U.S. National Archives, cited by Max Wallace in his book "The American Axis", show that Liebold was investigated by the United States Department of War's Military Intelligence Division in 1918 for being a suspected German spy, following an informant's tip.