A Double Agent Betrayed

By  by Morgan Winters
Published on May 12, 2008

In an article in Damn Interesting , Christopher S. Putnam tells the little-known but highly relevant case of George John Dasch, a German saboteur whose attempted defection during World War II was betrayed by J. Edgar Hoover. Putnam offers a taut narrative, which concludes with the startling revelation of how the Dasch case informs military policy regarding enemy combatants in the “war on terror.”

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