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The 33 convicted members of the Duquesne spy ring (FBI print) The Duquesne Spy Ring is the largest espionage case in the United States history that ended in convictions. A total of 33 members of a Nazi German espionage network, headed by Frederick "Fritz" Duquesne, were convicted after a lengthy investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
1915, Burwell Cartoon on German spies in America. During World War I Imperial Germany funded or inspired a number of terrorist acts [citation needed] in America and abroad. It was hoped that these attacks would harm the war efforts of the Allies or Entente Powers.
A WWI veteran who spied for Germany between the wars. Sentenced to five years, he was released from prison on 20 January 1937 and moved to the Continent. He received German citizenship, and was complicit with the broadcasts of Lord Haw Haw. Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe: USA March 1941
Due to the blockade of Germany by the Royal Navy, however, only the Allied Governments were able to purchase American munitions. As a result, Imperial Germany sent spies to the United States to disrupt by any means necessary the production and delivery of war munitions that were intended to kill German soldiers on the battlefields of the Great War.
Recruited for Operation Pastorius were eight Germans who had lived in the United States. Two of them, Ernst Burger and Herbert Haupt, were American citizens.The others, George John Dasch, Edward John Kerling, Richard Quirin, Heinrich Harm Heinck, Hermann Otto Neubauer and Werner Thiel, had worked at various jobs in the United States.
Bugas “was a fearless investigator, adept at the art of fisticuffs while wearing a suit,” wrote A.J. Baime in his 2014 book about Detroit’s contribution to the war effort, “The Arsenal of ...
For 16 months this radio station was a main channel of communication between German spies in New York City and the Abwehr. During this time, the FBI's radio station transmitted over 300 messages containing falsified or useless information to Germany, and received 200 messages from Germany. Through Sebold, the U.S. identified dozens of German ...
Before his capture, under the codename "Crown", Rumrich mailed letters to Jessie Jordan, a Scottish woman who was a spy for the Abwehr, in which he mentioned a plan for German secret service agents to physically overpower an American army colonel at the Hotel McAlpin in Manhattan, New York City. The colonel would be carrying East Coast defense ...