adolf hitler once said demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage and assassination. this is the war of the future. he was right, for no one will ever forget those tactics he used more than half a century later on that fateful day in september, 2001. but what you may not know is that america was actually invaded on a foggy night in the summer of 1942. a group of nazi saboteurs landed here, right here on this beach, in eastern long island. their mission, to strike at the heart of america with acts of sabotage. and just like the terrorists from 9/11, they had all lived in america and they all knew our country well. this is the story of the men who invaded our country and those who stopped them. the germans had threatened the united states long before 1942. in 1916 while world war i was raging in europe, americans felt safe. imperial germany was waging an all-out war against britain and france but the fighting was taking place more than 3,000 miles away acros
featured in the recent film the finance about a group of jewish defiance that fought the nazis. but peter is your to talk about an american citizen who became a mole to expose nazi spies who infiltrated the united states. book, double the hero of world war ii and how the fbi outwitted and estroyed a nazi spy ring, please welcome me in join me in welcoming peter duffy. [applause] peter: thank you very much. this is quite annexed extra narrator facility with amazing equipment in front of us. i hope it holds while i m up here. our b-17 issues that i will touch on in my story , the german spies were interested, a famous piece from that great airplane. an interestingl and forgotten unknown figure, particularly the american story of world war ii, a quizzical and i will begin this like a real spy story, noting an early 1939 come up for the war , he was living in new avoided boarded a passenger liner on the left side peers of manhattan and sailed for nazi germany, which was p
american citizen who became a mole to expose nazi spies who had infiltrated the united states to. present on his book double agent, the first hero of world war ii and how the fbi outwitted and destroyed a nazi spy ring. please join me in welcoming peter duffy. thank you very much. this is quite an stroosextraord facility with some amazing equipment in front of us. i hope it holds while i m up here and in fact one of our b 17 will be an issue that i ll touch on because the german spies were interested in a famous piece from that great airplane. i m here to tell an interesting and unforgotten hero, the american character of world war ii, a quizzical character named wilhelm gotlieb segal and i ll note by saying that in early 1939 before this war war started mr. sebold living in new york boarded the ss deutchland on the west side piers of manhattan, and he sailed for nazi germany which was preparing for war. he was carrying a single suitcase and a package and left his wife
americans i suspect you know, left it to the japanese to announce yamamoto s death. the americans announced that a couple of japanese aircraft had chopped down and were given away by a whimper that they knew yamamoto was in one of them. they waited until the japanese had the big funeral in tokyo and so on and so forth whereas conversely there could have been a disit isary after midway where clever newspapers were tipping off, reporting the midway success was the result of code-breaking successes, and it is scary what that sort of stuff can do. i mean, we interest to say, if the guys on the other side were paying attention, the west was the western allied nations were fantastically lucky to get away with what they did with the code-breaking. time for one quick question and quick answer. alex, could you please stand. a few months ago i went to college park to the smithsonian institution to hear james bond, i went over there, 165 people in the museum were there, sold out.
whenever we move into a landscape be interested in who lived there before. what is the really deep history. what can you find out about that because it s always deeper than you might think. for more information on booktv s recent visit to colorado springs colorado and other cities visited by her local content vehicles go to c-span.org/local content. next peter duffy recounts the life of william sebold the first double agent in fbi history who infiltrated a nazi spy ring in new york city they resulted in 33 arrested in 1941. this program from the international spy museum in washington d.c. is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you. it s a real pleasure to be here at the museum which is such a fantastic facility. my experience and going through when i was researching this book and being a tourist here was fantastic. i was first introduced to it by a man i want to introduce who is a friend of the museum and a former fbi special agent and now a university professor and auth