Word: dasch
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...invaders, George Dasch, sprinted up to the officer, explaining that they were lost fisherman - and offering a bribe not to say anything, which of course made the Guardsman all the more suspicious. The officer went back to his station and reported the incident, but by then the team of four had made it into town and hopped a train to New York City. There they split into pairs, got apartments, bought clothes and had some nice dinners. Then Dasch did what he had apparently always intended to do: called the FBI to turn them all in. He told the local...
...Dasch was a persistent double-traitor, though, and took a train to Washington, went to the Justice Department and demanded 15 minutes with J. Edgar Hoover. He was dismissed, but finally got an audience with a mid-level official. When Dasch opened his briefcase and showed the official $85,000 he'd been given for the operation, he got his 15 minutes with Hoover. Soon the FBI had arrested Dasch's roommate, and learned about all the others, including the Florida quartet who by then had made it to the Midwest. The newspapers at the time touted...