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And by doing that, these rumrunners, you know, who worked for Al Capone or whoever else, were able to sort of run circles around the Coast Guard.

Head of the Coast Guard’s Intelligence Section—and, for a time, its only member—he tracked every detail he could discover about the rumrunners’ vessels.

A Detroit chorus girl weds her stage producer without telling her rumrunner boyfriend.

“And we worked on the rumrunners’ boats, too,” he adds with a laugh.

But as the lone branch of the military that serves as a law-enforcement agency, the 227-year-old service has also long been in the business of interdicting contraband, from Chinese opium smugglers to Prohibition rumrunners.