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Betrayal, the true story of J. Edgar Hoover and the Nazi saboteurs captured during WWII, David Alan Johnson

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Betrayal

David Alan Johnson

"At 4 AM on a foggy morning in 1942, Nazi submarines discharged eight men along the coasts of Long Island and Florida. A few days later, J. Edgar Hoover further burnished his reputation by announcing the swift capture of Nazi soldiers found prowling our shores, intent on sabotage." "Omitted from the record (and still denied by the FBI) is the true story behind Hoover's greatest publicity coup: the saboteurs' leader, George Dasch, betrayed his own country by turning himself in first to a disbelieving FBI. Hoover promised Dasch clemency and assurances that the jerry-rigged "military tribunal" created to try the men as "unlawful combatants" was merely a formality to protect loved ones from Nazi retribution." "Using documentation from the FBI archives, interviews and memoirs, David Alan Johnson carefully recounts the mounting betrayals in this saga."--BOOK JACKET

the true story of J. Edgar Hoover and the Nazi saboteurs captured during WWII

To America and back -- Operation Pastorius -- Differing objectives -- Getting off the beach -- "Don't ask me nothing" -- The rude awakening -- The verdict was already in -- Not from fear -- Reputation and notoriety -- Outcasts and celebrities -- History repeats