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Operation Pastorius was a failed German intelligence plan for sabotage inside the United States during World War II.The operation was staged in June 1942 and was to be directed against strategic American economic targets.
Internment of German resident aliens and German-American citizens occurred in the United States during the periods of World War I and World War II. During World War II, the legal basis for this detention was under Presidential Proclamation 2526 , made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act .
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).
He received German citizenship, and was complicit with the broadcasts of Lord Haw Haw. Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe: USA March 1941 A European aristocrat and German sympathizer, she operated in UK before fleeing to San Francisco in 1939. She was not active in USA beyond questioning by American authorities.
George John Dasch (7 February 1903 – 1 November 1991) was a German agent who landed on American soil during World War II.He helped to destroy Nazi Germany's espionage program in the United States by defecting to the American cause, but was tried and convicted of espionage.
Hostilities ended six months after the United States saw its first action in World War I, and only a relatively small number of German prisoners of war reached the U.S. [1] Many prisoners were German sailors caught in port by U.S. forces far away from the European battlefield. [2]
Operation Elster ("Magpie" in English) was a German espionage mission intended to gather intelligence on U.S. military and technology facilities during World War II. The mission commenced in September 1944 with two Nazi agents sailing from Kiel, Germany on the U-1230 and coming ashore in Maine on November 29, 1944. [ 1 ]
Morris Berg was an American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball, who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. [53] Julia Child: Child worked for the OSS on the development of shark repellents. This was to ensure that sharks would not explode ordnance targeting German U-boats. [54] William J. Donovan