Churchill's German Spy
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Churchill's German Spy

Revelations on Appeasement, Operation Torch & Nazi Intelligence from Double Agent Harlequin

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Churchill's German Spy

Revelations on Appeasement, Operation Torch & Nazi Intelligence from Double Agent Harlequin

About this book

Compared to many of MI5's other double agents, HARLEQUIN's career was very short-lived, lasting only for a few months in 1943. However, during that time he provided insights into the various parties involved in the Appeasement process in 1938; the Czech crisis of 1939; the enterprises of a Franco-American businessman who hosted the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's marriage in France; the espionage activities of an aristocratic German family; Admiral Canaris, the head of the Abwehr – many of the Abwehr's personalities with whom he had come into contact or had known about and the agents he employed – as well as relations between the disparate organisations of the German intelligence services – the Abwehr, Gestapo, and Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the intelligence arm of the SS. Furthermore, he revealed the German Armistice Commission's involvement in espionage and their links to the Abwehr. MI5 shared this intelligence with the FBI and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) before HARLEQUIN requested that he be returned to American custody where he remained for the rest of the war. His effectiveness as a double agent will be examined using newly-released official files as a primary source.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Dramatis Personae
  9. Glossary
  10. German Ranks
  11. Introduction
  12. Chapter 1 An Important Prize
  13. Chapter 2 The Bedaux Affair
  14. Chapter 3 Revelations
  15. Chapter 4 Their Man in New York
  16. Chapter 5 The Prince and the Appeaser
  17. Chapter 6 Hitler’s Special Envoy
  18. Chapter 7 ‘Dr Sedgwick’
  19. Chapter 8 HARLEQUIN on Canaris
  20. Chapter 9 The Belgian Prince
  21. Chapter 10 Pop Goes the Weasel!
  22. Chapter 11 HARLEQUIN and U.35
  23. Chapter 12 A Family of Spies
  24. Chapter 13 Other Revelations
  25. Chapter 14 The Party’s Over
  26. Chapter 15 ‘The Curtain Has Fallen’
  27. Afterword
  28. Appendix 1 Description of Georges Aubry
  29. Appendix 2 HARLEQUIN on Secret Inks
  30. Appendix 3 German Armistice Commission
  31. Appendix 4 Abwehr Terminology
  32. Appendix 5 Abwehr Organisation
  33. Appendix 6 Names Revealed by Westerlinck
  34. Appendix 7 HARLEQUIN’s List of Agents
  35. Notes
  36. Bibliography
  37. Plates