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Sunday, June 29, 1941 - The Duquesne Spy Ring

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Between the days 28/29 June 1941, following a two-year investigation, the FBI arrested Frederick Duquesne (a South African Boer and German soldier, big-game hunter, journalist, and spy) and 32 German spies on charges of relaying secret information on U.S. weaponry and shipping movements to Germany.

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On Jan 2, 1942, the 33 members of the Nazi spy ring headed by Duquesne were sentenced to serve a total of over 300 years in prison.

William G. Sebold (1899/1970), a FBI double agent, was instrumental to the capture and conviction. One German spymaster later commented that the ring’s roundup delivered ‘the death blow’ to their espionage efforts in the USA.
 
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