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Two German defectors turned British double agents, disillusioned with Nazism, manipulated wartime intelligence and postwar politics. Two German defectors who were to serve British Intelligence from 1942 to 1945 were, in many ways, two of a kind. One was a Nazi, having served in the Waffen-SS and given the code nameCOLUMBINE as a double agent under the Double-Cross System, while the other was not. Bothhad become disillusioned with the way things were going with the war and generally disgustedwith the Nazi regime and resolved to try to change the course of events. One was an adventurerwho claimed after the war to have been a British agent and parachuted into France, yet nothingcould have been further from the truth. He even tried his hand at acting in an American B-movie. There was also a family connection with a future British prime minister. Like many spies, theyboth had large egos and were good at manufacturing information or distorting the truth. One ofthem ended up working for the Political Warfare Executive, so it is perhaps not surprising that heexploited his craft in post-war West Germany, mostly for his own ends. Between them, they wereto cause MI5 a lot of headaches both during the war and afterwards into the Cold War period.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dramatis Personae
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One: Meiss-Teuffen
- Part Two: Columbine
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Provisional List of the Most Important Officers in the Ss (According to Zech-Nenntwich)
- Appendix 2 Fourth Interrogation of Zech-Nenntwich, 15 August 19431
- Appendix 3 Sis Section V Questionnaire1
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Plates