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Traitor's Progress. William Curtis Colepaugh, his renegade companion, was a weak-faced, gangling young man who had grown up in Connecticut, had somehow developed a sentimental sense of attachment to "beautiful Germany." He had graduated from Farragut Academy in New Jersey, flunked out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Grabbed later as a draft dodger, he joined the Navy, put on such a show of love for the Germans that the Navy discharged him. From then on, it was easy-for a while. Colepaugh sailed to Europe as a messboy on the diplomatic exchange liner Gripsholm, jumped ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: If at First... | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...during the Atlantic crossing, Gimpel and Colepaugh wore naval uniforms in the event of possible capture, changed to civilian clothes with U.S. labels at the last moment. The U-boat, which ran seven miles up the Bay from the Atlantic, surfaced 300 yards from shore, cloaked by snow and darkness, and two of her sailors paddled the spies ashore in a rubber boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: If at First... | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...left to guess at the details of the chase which brought them to grief-an omission which many a weary wartime traveler found less baffling than the minor mystery contained in one sentence of the FBI report: "Gimpel and Colepaugh stayed at the best hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: If at First... | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

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