Defection To The United States
George John Dasch was by now unhappy with the Nazi regime. He eventually talked to one of his compatriots, a naturalized American citizen named Ernst Peter Burger, about defecting to the United States. Their plan was to surrender immediately to the FBI. However, when they did so, officials did not believe their stories. To prove their collaboration with the Nazis, Dasch dumped $84,000 on the desk of D.M. Ladd, director of the Domestic Intelligence Division. Dasch was arrested, and interrogated for eight days. He disclosed the locations of the other men in the sabotage operation, including Burger. He revealed that the goals of the sabotage program had been to disrupt war industries and launch a wave of terror by planting explosives in railway stations, Jewish-owned department stores, and public places.
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