Episode 225 - Operation Pastorious
During WWII the Nazis attempted to recruit a team of spies to sabotage factories within the US. Instead what they did was hire a bunch of rejects who took their spy money, got drunk, and hired sex workers until they turned themselves in to the FBI. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-story-how-nazi-plot-sabotage-us-war-effort-was-foiled-180959594/ https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/nazi-saboteurs-and-george-dasch https://web.archive.org/web/20151218132240/http://www.montauklife.com/history/history_night_of_the_nazis.html https://www.spiegel.de/politik/erschiessen-oder-erhaengen-a-77234129-0002-0001-0000-000007859070?context=issue https://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-german-saboteurs-invade-america-in-1942/