Countering Hitler's Spies by Stephen Wynn

Author:Stephen Wynn [Wynn, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, World War II, Political Science, Intelligence & Espionage, True Crime, Espionage
ISBN: 9781526725523
Google: 4dM8zQEACAAJ
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Limited
Published: 2020-09-15T00:43:06+00:00

The attempt to insert him into Ireland was originally planned to take place in April but this was cancelled due to bad weather. It eventually went ahead on the night of 4 May 1940.

Operation Innkeeper

This was an aborted plan drawn up in Autumn 1941 to send two Irish Abwehr agents to London on a sabotage mission. One of the agents was a John Codd, an Irish national captured while serving as a soldier in the British Army in 1940. The mission never took place.

Operation Osprey

This was a plan drawn up by the German Foreign Ministry and Abwehr II during 1942. In essence the plan was a re-vamp of Operation Whale. Planning for the operation was driven by the landing of a small contingent of 4,508 American troops and engineers in Northern Ireland on 26 January 1942, and Hitler’s fears about what this could lead to. A small Waffen-SS unit was to be parachuted into Ireland to support any local parties who were prepared to take on the Americans. The Waffen-SS unit or the operation, were never put to the test in Ireland because the American invasion of Ireland, which German High Command felt might take place, never occurred.

The Western Desert Campaign of 1941-42 was a good example of how effective the use of intelligence could be. Sometimes this was because of accurate information and on other occasions it was because misinformation had been believed.

In North Africa the British conducted an operation of deception. It began when the Abwehr recruited an Italian of Jewish heritage in France during 1940. What they didn’t know was that he was a double agent who had been recruited by the British SIS before the war and who had given him the somewhat unusual code name of ‘Cheese’.

The Abwehr sent him to Egypt in February 1941. His mission was to report on British military operations in the region. What he sent to his handlers back in Germany, by way of a fictitious sub-agent named Paul Nicosoff, were a number of prepared and doctored messages, which were sent to help the success of Operation Torch, which took place between 8 and 16 November 1942. It was the Anglo-American invasion of French North Africa. When it finally took place, it was a total surprise to the German High Command, showing just how effective the British deception had been.

North Africa became a hot bed for spies from all sides. The Abwehr went about obtaining people to spy for them in something of a strange manner. They approached Arab prisoners of war who were being held in French camps. This wasn’t the first time the Abwehr had decided upon such an approach, they had employed a similar tactic with Soviet Union prisoners of war when they invaded Russia. They thought of it as being creative, but it appears more a case of desperation. They promised any Arab prisoners of war who agreed to spy for them in North Africa, a trip back to their homeland. Many, if not all, of

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