The agents in the building, however, were too busy catching spies to be bothered with every crackpot off the street who happened to know classified details about secret Nazi landings. Dasch was bounced from office to office until finally Assistant Director D.M. Ladd, the agent in charge of the manhunt, agreed to humor him with five minutes of his time. Dasch angrily repeated his story, only to find himself greeted once again with patronizing nods and glances toward the door. Fed up at last, he lifted the briefcase he had been carrying, tore open its straps, and dumped the entire $84,000 of mission funds onto the Assistant Director’s desk. Ladd blinked with astonishment and began to reconsider Dasch’s claims.
The group was rounded up by the FBI. However, the story made public by J. Edgar Hoover had nothing about Dasch turning himself in. Hoover credited “The detective work of the century,” and all eight men were convicted by a military tribunal. Six were swiftly executed, and the two leaders received long sentences. The case served as a precedent for holding terrorists for military tribunals today. Read the entire story at Damn Interesting. Link
If there was a god then there would be a devil, if there was a devil then there would be a hell.
If there was a hell, then that sick twisted evil mofo Hoover would be burning in the fires for all time.
Only after the true information was leaked did the reluctant President Truman commute their sentences.
They were not welcomed back home and were never allowed back in the USA as they had been promised
He spoke platitudes to it's glory out of one side of his mouth while issuing instructions out the other side that went against nearly everything the US is meant to be about.
Appalling that the current holder of Hoovers mantle uses this shameful event as a legel precedent that he thinks validates Gitmo etc etc.
Jesus tap-dancing Christ.
And I mean, I could understand reporting a bust while secretly stashing them away from the public eye, but to actually follow through with sentencing them? wtf?
No, no, no....IT IS A JOKE!
what didn't you understand about Gitmo?
Is it just a wooly liberal idea that incarceration without trial legalistically puts the US on a par with the PRC?
C'mon, the US is meant to better than that.
Live up to the legacy of your forebears.
He was a little ahead of his time; he suffered for this action. Subsequent rulers were able to kill people on a whim.