A Nazi u-boot-Mission in the United States during the second war, aimed, to unleash a wave of terror ended in farce after through a series of disasters hit, newly released files showed on Monday.
The German bomb planned roads, railways and factories on "Operation Pastorius" in June 1942, according to the files of Britain's MI5 of domestic intelligence agency.
But even before it sank in the way the plot a farce deserves a comedy.
One of the saboteurs, Herbert Haupt, drunk in Paris bar after farewell dinner and declared his drinking companions that he was a spy.
If the u boat in the United States, it ran aground on a sandbank as it sold the four agents on the coast of long Iceland, New York.
A US Coast Guard discovered the German as their supplies to the beach-buried, but he received $300 and persuaded to leave the men alone.
In a report on the mission, Victor Rothschild, head of the Department's MI5 counter-intelligence, wrote: "it was only the laziness or stupidity of the United States Coast Guard, it was not because of United States troops attacked."
The Act was only thwarts, if the leaders of the spies, it was announced, George Dasch, until the FBI, rang a saboteur and demanded, the Bureau Director, j. Edgar Hoover talk.
His confession was initially dismissed, but after a long interview he was arrested and his colleagues were rounded up agents, showed the files.
Despite the slowness of the mission, MI5 considered yet it as a serious threat.
"Apparatus was better equipped with sabotage this sabotage expedition and better educated than the security service has heard all other expeditions of which," Rothschild wrote.
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