Tango01 | 19 Jan 2021 1:27 p.m. PST |
"From baseball player Moe Berg to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" author Roald Dahl, learn about six famous people who once were wartime secret agents…" Main page link
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abelp01 | 19 Jan 2021 1:46 p.m. PST |
Actor Eddie Albert of "Green Acres" fame also did some spying for the U.S. |
Legion 4 | 19 Jan 2021 4:16 p.m. PST |
I thought he was in the Navy in the PTO. Tarawa IIRC. Of course he could have done some spying too. When I on saw Julia Childs was will the OSS on the History Channel[as in the link] and elsewhere. WOW ! 🤯 |
John the OFM | 19 Jan 2021 5:38 p.m. PST |
Before the war he checked out Mexican ports and hideaway bays for Japanese or German submarine hideouts. At least SOMEONE was looking out! |
55th Division | 19 Jan 2021 8:13 p.m. PST |
also Marcel Marceau he was in the French resistance during WW2. and he would have been an amazing resistance agent, since if captured you could rely on him not to talk Also Coco Chanel was an agent for the Nazi's during WW2 |
Eclectic Wave | 20 Jan 2021 7:40 a.m. PST |
Jon Pertwee, the third doctor, also was a spy and worked along side Ian Fleming in the Navel Intelligence Division. |
Legion 4 | 20 Jan 2021 8:42 a.m. PST |
Before the war he checked out Mexican ports and hideaway bays for Japanese or German submarine hideouts. At least SOMEONE was looking out! Didn't know that about about Eddie "Green Acres" Albert ! He did a lot of movies and I really liked that show ! |
newarch | 20 Jan 2021 10:46 a.m. PST |
Christopher Lee also did some undercover work in a frankly unbelievable military career during WW2. |
Wolfhag | 20 Jan 2021 12:12 p.m. PST |
John Hill worked for the CIA for a while, mostly as an analyst I think. Wolfhag |
Tango01 | 20 Jan 2021 12:30 p.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement Armand
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deadhead | 20 Jan 2021 1:59 p.m. PST |
Far more dodgy are recent revelations about the work of MI9 in print (should never have been released I think. Bit like Enigma, who knows when we might need such intelligence again?). British and Commonwealth POWs were exploited for intelligence work, whether in captivity or, even more, after escaping. Potentially made them into "spies" in civilian clothing if on the run. Who remembers "The Great Escape" where the Gestapo question Cavendish (Nigel Stock) "What intelligence were you to gather?" Ridiculous Nazi nonsense. It now turns out that, once home, that was just what was expected, once prompted by coded messages-from-home letters. Spies captured in England were either "turned" or executed. By modern standards I think the latter was little better than Axis practice. |
John the OFM | 20 Jan 2021 3:27 p.m. PST |
Christopher Lee absolutely refused to discuss what he did. That of course makes it much more mysterious and glamorous. |
Warspite1 | 20 Jan 2021 4:22 p.m. PST |
Anthony Quayle (broken leg man in the movie 'The Guns of Naverone') was with special operations in Yugoslavia and, likewise, refused to discuss what he did. Not being mysterious, some people just did not want to boast about WW2 exploits. It also made him the best man for a part in a film about operations behind German lines. Admiral Canaris, head of the German Abwehr, is well-known as a double-agent (of a kind) given that he had well documented back door links with the Allies. See: link However it is possible that Canaris was the author or at least the instigator of one of the most mysterious documents to come into Allied hands in WW2, referred-to as the Stockholm letter in R.V. Jones' book, The Secret War. The anonymous letter listed future German developments in aeronatics, jet engines, radar and most crucially the V1, V2 and V3 weapons programmes. Jones said that when the letter first arrived it was regarded as a fraud or mis-information but as each item on the list was identified for real, the list began to be used as a guide to the future. It clued them on what to look for next. Given that Canaris tipped-off the Allies about the date of Barbarossa and given that he appeared to have sabotaged the only insertion of saboteurs into mainland USA it would make Canaris the likeliest author of the Stockholm letter. Co-incidentally Anthony Quayle later portrayed Admiral Canaris in the movie "The Eagle Has Landed". Barry |
Tango01 | 21 Jan 2021 12:38 p.m. PST |
Thanks also!. Amicalement Armand
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