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Secret Nazi saboteurs invaded Long Island during World War II, MI5 documents reveal

Posted by admin on Apr 5, 2011

Bumbling Nazi secret agents slipped into the U.S. through Long Island to sabotage the American war effort, declassified British documents revealed Monday. The spies were tasked with committing “small acts of terrorism” with “incendiary bombs in suitcases left in luggage depots and in Jewish-owned shops,” the report said.

The not-so-subtle spies stormed the beach near Amagansett in the Hamptons on the morning of June 13, 1942. Each was dressed in German uniforms, the documents say, and disembarked from a Nazi U-boat.

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