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Politics : Homeland Security

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To: KLP who wrote (495)11/15/2001 2:03:41 AM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) of 827
 
>>German saboteurs landed by submarine in World War II<<

That episode illustrates the problems that can crop up when things are done behind closed doors. Although one of the saboteurs turned himself in to the FBI and confessed, the dastardly J. Edgar Hoover tried to pull one over on FDR by taking all the credit for the capture. The prosecution wanted to hang the snitcher with the others, but reason prevailed and he was given a 30-year sentence...

UNDERCOVER: In the summer of 1942, German submarines put saboteurs ashore on American beaches. By Harvey Ardman
thehistorynet.com
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