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On occasion, he had to invent reasons why his agents had failed to report easily available information that the Germans would eventually know about. For example, he reported that his (fabricated) Liverpool agent had fallen ill just before a major fleet movement from that port, and so was unable to report the event. [36] To support this story, the agent eventually "died" and an obituary was placed in the local newspaper as further evidence to convince the Germans. [37] The Germans were also persuaded to pay a pension to the agent's widow. [38]

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A grand betrayal and two decades of working for the enemy. A public admission, exile from his home, a bloody death. An award-winning French novel and 15 years of police and government inquiries into his life. After the war, Chapman smuggled gold and ran a health spa, among other activities. He died in 1997. 2. William Sebold: The FBI counterspy who brought down a German espionage ring An aerial view in 2006 of the house near the village of Glenties, Co Donegal, where Denis Donaldson lived and was murdered Credit: PA Agents also provided information on the political direction of the republican movement, letting British policymakers know what the thinking was among leading figures. Pujol died in Caracas in 1988 [4] [8] and is buried in Choroní, [8] a town inside Henri Pittier National Park by the Caribbean Sea. [8] [55] [56] Network of fictitious agents [ edit ]Edward Chapman and Frank Owen The Eddie Chapman Story, Pub: Messner, New York City, 1953 (ASIN B0000CIO9B) Pujol, J.; West, N. (1985). The Personal Story of the Most Successful Double Agent of World War II. New York: Random House. ISBN 9780307888778. During interrogation by MI5, then 27-year-old Chapman reportedly said his German spymaster -- referred to by Chapman as "Dr. Graumann" -- had promised to take him to a Nazi rally as a reward for completing his first British mission and would place him in the first or second row, near Hitler. Other investigations have been carried out. French journalist and friend of Donaldson, Sorj Chalandon wrote two novels inspired by the double agent’s life and death. My Traitor and Return to Killybegs won awards and sold many copies, but even in fiction Donaldson has proved elusive. The circumstances that led to Denis Donaldson becoming a British agent are uncertain, like much else about his time as a spy.

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Nigel Jones, Introduction to The Venlo Incident by S. Payne Best, published by Pen & Sword Books, 2009. The covert meetings leading up to the kidnapping, as remembered by Captain S. Payne Best in his book The Venlo Incident, are summarised below. [2] :7–14 This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( June 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Operation Mincemeat fooled Hitler completely: German troops were deployed to the wrong place; thousands of British, Canadian and American lives were saved; Mussolini was deposed; and the course of World War Two was changed. Though the story told was similar to that which one might read in any spy novel the Germans liked it, believed it to be true, and thus he rose in their estimation. Seaman (2004). "The first code which Garbo was given by the Germans for his wireless communications turned out to be the identical code which was currently in use in the German circuits." Nicholas Booth, Zigzag – The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman, 2007, Portrait, London ( ISBN 0749951567), pp. 280–81.

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