The German Invaders
In 1942, Germany successfully landed eight men on US shores. They were instructed to blow up bridges, tunnels and power plants, industrial targets that would demoralize the war effort. One of the men, George Dasch, decided to betray the operation to the FBI. He traveled to Washington, DC, and booked himself into the Mayflower Hotel. Unaware that he could have just gone downstairs to meet with FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, who lunched there every day, he went to the bureau. With his information Hoover quickly captured the rest of the saboteurs. But Hoover took the credit, helped by President Franklin Roosevelt's decision not to try the men in open court. The military tribunal he authorized then became precedent for later administrations.
Dasch went to prison instead of dying in the electric chair. He was deported after the war, and wrote Eight Spies Against America.
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