"Agent Garbo: The Chicken Farmer Spy" Topic

"Throughout the Second World War the British intelligence services persistently and completely out-manoeuvred their counterparts in the Abwehr, the intelligence organisation of Nazi Germany. Indeed, every single German secret agent sent to Britain was captured and either imprisoned, executed or turned into a double agent, agreeing to spy on behalf of the British against their former masters. The British ‘Double-Cross' system, as it was known, was one of the very best operations in the history of espionage, perhaps rivalled only by the Soviet Cambridge Spy Ring.

The Double-Cross system, which was overseen by the XX Committee (pronounced ‘Twenty Committee') under the chairmanship of John Cecil Masterman, ran dozens of double-agents during the course of the war with varying degrees of success. Such agents included the now famous Eddie Chapman, known as ‘Agent Zigzag', and Dušan "Duško" Popov, who was given the codename ‘Tricycle'. However, one of the more unusual double-agents who worked for the British was ‘Agent Garbo'…"
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Amicalement
Armand

I learned about him and all of his fellow double agents when I read Masterman's The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945 back in the 1970s. I owned the book for a long time before I donated it to my alma mater's library in the early 1990s.

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Jim

Hmmm; wonder how objective this is; from the website:

We are not historians and do not pretend to be. We are just two British chaps with a great passion for WW2 history determined to learn as much as we can about this time in history and share our expeirences with you, the WW2 Community.

MH