Word: colepaugh
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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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...
...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...
...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...
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