The Names of the Best/Successful German Spies
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Gimpel was a fantasist.
He claimed that he hatched a plan to bomb the Panama Canal using Ju87s delivered to an offshore Nicaraguan island by U-boat. So far no problem. Anyone can hatch a plan.
However, he further claimed that the plan got so far that aircraft and U-boat were converted and a full sized mock up of the target was built in the Baltic to practice on. The only trouble is that absolutely no coroborating evidence of these aircraft, U-boats and mock targets exist. It seems likely he simply copied the, by then, well known story of a similar Japanese plan for which submarines, aircraft and a full size mock-up really were built.
It is embarrassing that this deluded self publicist, who failed in anything he really did attempt as a spy, is dominating this discussion about Best/Successful spies, when he was neither.
He claimed that he hatched a plan to bomb the Panama Canal using Ju87s delivered to an offshore Nicaraguan island by U-boat. So far no problem. Anyone can hatch a plan.
However, he further claimed that the plan got so far that aircraft and U-boat were converted and a full sized mock up of the target was built in the Baltic to practice on. The only trouble is that absolutely no coroborating evidence of these aircraft, U-boats and mock targets exist. It seems likely he simply copied the, by then, well known story of a similar Japanese plan for which submarines, aircraft and a full size mock-up really were built.
It is embarrassing that this deluded self publicist, who failed in anything he really did attempt as a spy, is dominating this discussion about Best/Successful spies, when he was neither.
Re: The Names of the Best/Successful German Spies
The most successful we know about? Elyesa Bazna aka Cicero.
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any evidence of spies, sucessfull or unsucessfull, operating in France or Belgium?
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Considering operation Nordpol and the fate of the Prosper network (among others) in France i'd say yes .
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Sorry, I was thinking of German spies previous to June 1940. I've seen remarks about the Abwehr & Gestapo being very active in the Netherlands, but those lack any details or sources.
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Well the British spy network in Holland was penetrated thanks to Folkert van Koutrik and John ‘’Jack’’ Cooper .It's one of the reasons the Brit's european network was demolished when then war started.Google them or use google books.
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Here is a good overview : http://www.georg-elser-arbeitskreis.de/texts/graaff.htm
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Re: The Names of the Best/Successful German Spies
Hello!
Depends on the term "best". Actually the best must have been those never discovered or caught. Germany did of course make use of many kinds of spies, from many nationalities - also not only German natives. There were for instance a number of Norwegian ones - but research again only deals with the ones known. Alas, there were more, but the investigation only revealed their codenames.
The Sondergroup Lola, situated in Trondheim and lead by Rinnan were indeed arrested after the war, but nonetheless very, very successful in their work against the Norwegian resistance.
I do not like Wikipedia much, but found almost nothing on this group in English. So here is the link, that after all is not too bad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rinnan
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Depends on the term "best". Actually the best must have been those never discovered or caught. Germany did of course make use of many kinds of spies, from many nationalities - also not only German natives. There were for instance a number of Norwegian ones - but research again only deals with the ones known. Alas, there were more, but the investigation only revealed their codenames.
The Sondergroup Lola, situated in Trondheim and lead by Rinnan were indeed arrested after the war, but nonetheless very, very successful in their work against the Norwegian resistance.
I do not like Wikipedia much, but found almost nothing on this group in English. So here is the link, that after all is not too bad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rinnan
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Re: The Names of the Best/Successful German Spies
Also Charles Howard ‘Dick’ Ellis was a spy in MI-6 : http://chris-intel-corner.blogspot.com/ ... oscow.html
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