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| Tango01 | 21 Dec 2017 10:04 p.m. PST |
….Serbian Playboy Fooled Adolf Hitler. "No one really expects spies to live glamorous James Bond-lifestyles full of tailored suits, tight dresses, sex and gambling. So, one of the pleasures of reading Ben Macintyre's Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies is learning about a half-dozen outrageous secret agents who really did lead decadent and dangerous lives, tricking Hitler's spies agency while presenting Berlin with bills for whiskey and silk shirts. True to its title, Double Cross describes numerous betrayals-within-betrayals that occurred in the shadowy world of World War II espionage—none more shocking than the fact that by 1943 every single agent in the United Kingdom reporting to German intelligence was actually a double agent under the control of MI5, the British Security Service. Even more absurdly, under Operation Midas, Germany transferred £85,000.00 GBP to its "agents" — equivalent to £4.50 GBP million today — which was used to fund MI5's double agent program!…"
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| bsrlee | 22 Dec 2017 7:44 a.m. PST |
What? They didn't walk into a bar? No punch line? |
| Tango01 | 22 Dec 2017 11:37 a.m. PST |
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