A German general really did cut a deal with the State Department to save his son’s life—his son went on to live a long, productive life in America, his mental diagnosis turning out to be a misdiagnosis after all. A journalist really did leap out a window in an attempt to keep from returning to Germany—one of many foreign nationals captured in the State Department’s broad net. The FBI really did facilitate hasty weddings in between their grueling, endless hours of surveillance. The Japanese really did request the dining room be arranged like the Rising Sun—and they really did despise the German
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