Historical Nonfiction

You Couldn’t Make This Up

In 1942, the police were tipped off that there was a gay brothel in Massachusetts that was infested with Nazi spies. And before you scream that it was a set-up so they could arrest some gays, it was actually smart. The brothel was popular with sailors and other navy people. So it was a good place to gather military information, if you were an undercover Nazi and willing to bone a sailor in order to get him talking.

But after city detectives raided the sex club/spy nest, news emerged from somewhere that a U.S. senator had been caught in the sting. The New York Post called that person “Senator X”,  stretching the story with tantalizing hints and what-ifs, and then finally published Senator David Walsh’s name. There was an FBI investigation that cleared him of all accusations (though the brothel’s owner swore he had seen the senator with some of the Nazi spies including one named “Mister E”).  As you can guess, David Walsh was never a senator again.

(Source: cracked.com)

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    Massachusetts during WWII, seriously.

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