Word: apfel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steamers last week, two tenuous theories went up in smoke. Neither Japs nor Reds could be blamed for the plague of nitrate-ship fires (TIME, April 2) after Chile's cocky counter-espionage Departamento 50 nabbed the chief saboteur, a German named Julio Alberto von Appen Oestmann (alias Apfel), and turned him over for shipment...
Pursuit. It was not easy. Sensing danger, Nazi spymasters in Hamburg had named all their agents in the Americas with nicknames. Intercepted messages referred to "Bach," to "Pedro," to "Apfel." But patiently, month after month, the cryptic messages were studied and compared, the machinations of the spies uncovered. It was found that "Bach" was Ludwig von Bohlen, Air Attache to the Santiago German Embassy. A woman, one Isabel Pederit, was found to be the spy-ring expert, charged with developing letters written in secret inks. These came to her from all over the Americas, and the information they contained...