Lieutenant Rozanov: [thick Russian accent] Very clever little boy. Very, very clever, to see that my friend and I are foreigners here, but of course not Russian, naturally. What would the Russians be doing on United States of America island, with so many animosities and hatreds between these two countries? It is too funny an idea, is it not? No, we... we are of course... Norveegans.
It is literally true that German spies who landed in Frenchman’s Bay (near Bar Harbor, Maine) during World War II, and traveled by bus to New York City, were instructed to say that they were Norwegian if anyone asked them about their nationality.
Supplied with a large amount of cash to fulfill their mission, when they got to New York, they found that they were more interested in Broadway shows, restaurants and girls than in sabotage. They accomplished nothing.