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asked for permission to arrest the neutral Portuguese fishermen, since they knew of two radio contacts between the fishing fleet and the Germans. Freitas was interned in "
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arrested Freitas. During interrogation Freitas was shown a photo of the Abwehr resident in
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with 500 other spies, some of whom then radioed false messages to the Germans as
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