Spies in Maine
At Waterloo before catching the Eurostar I bought Max Hasting's "Armageddon", about the last year of World War II, which is reasonably interesting. I was particularly amused by his account of the rather pointless continuing German intelligence operations after the war was clearly lost. Parachuting espionage officers behind the rapidly encroaching Soviet front in 1945 was quite common (almost all of whom were caught immediately apparently), but my favourite was that a U-boat dropped off two spies off the coast of Maine on New Year's Day 1945 to carry out reconaissance operations. I wonder what they did?
posted by Matthew @ 4/18/2006 01:41:00 PM
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