q12:

[dubdobdee]

12: Which code name was given to the agent who.

i: thwarted Weitsprung?
ii: faked the demolition of the Mosquito factory?
iii: warned the High Command of the threat from FUSAG?
iv: threatened revelation following the death of her beloved dog?
v: successfully misled Rommel and employed his notional girlfriend Misanthrope?
vi: photographed Sir Hughe’s secret papers and was rewarded with counterfeit sterling?
vii: began by proving himself to the Abwehr with a report on Pierre Laval?
viii: nearly blew it when he mistakenly confused Glass and Sand?
ix: was known as Leonhard by his German paymasters?
x: later dug up artefacts in Corsica?

COMPLETE: sterling work Sean, I will write this up later

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Alas I don't think any of these are espionage animals:

"In 2007 Iranian authorities captured 14 squirrels, which were allegedly carrying spying equipment. The story was widely dismissed in the West as "nuts"."

WELL DONE EVERYONE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I have been unable to successfully google any of the above so far (because they are TOO GOOD at being spies, clearly) but I have spent the last half hour reading the excellent wikipedia entry for Joan Pujol Garcia, a WW2 double-agent who fed the Nazis a bunch of duff information, convincing them he was in London when in fact he was kicking around in Lisbon. His network of 'fake spies' have amazing codenames: DAGOBERT, BENEDICT, MOONBEAM and CHAMILLUS!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Oooo actually he is likely to be iii) then - FUSAG is the First United States Army Group:

"Operation Bodyguard was designed to confuse the Axis high command as to Allied intentions during the lead-up to the invasion... The Allied story for FUSAG was that the army group, based in south-east England, would invade the Pas de Calais region several weeks after a smaller diversionary landing in Normandy."

Pujol's code name was GARBO (for the British) or ARABEL (for the Germans).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

x) Completely by accident I have landed on Roger Grosjean aka FIDO:

"[After WW2], he left for Corsica and began what was to be a very successful research career spanning twenty years studying the Corsican megalithic civilization. He uncovered quite splendid sculpted menhirs at Filitosa, Cauria and Palaghju, for example, as well as megalithic fortified settlements at Alo-Bisucce, Cucuruzzu and Araghju."

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Getting the hang of this now. i) is Gevork Vartanian aka AMIR, a Soviet teenager who stopped Operation Long Jump (the assassination of Roosevelt/Churchill/Stalin in Tehran).

Here is Gevork partying with Churchill's granddaughter:

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Great Googly Moogly!

v) seems to be agent CHEESE aka Renato Levi "an Italian Jew, cosmopolitan and multilingual, who spied for the French, Italians and Germans, or so they thought. In fact, he had been in contact with MI6 since 1939".

"The extraordinary thing about the network of CHEESE sub-agents is that they were all notional, invented and orchestrated by Levi and his case officers." "his notional Greek girlfriend, codenamed MISANTHROPE, who obligingly picked up Allied officers in bars and who could make corporeal appearances when required in the person of Evangeline Palidou"

"He came to be regarded by the Germans as their most valuable source in the region, despite the fact that the disinformation he fed them helped prevent them capturing Cairo and the Suez Canal, lose them Tobruk, starve Rommel’s Afrika Korps of fuel, and kept vital German divisions in the south of France and the Balkans while the Allies established and expanded their Normandy foothold."

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/03/baiting-the-trap-with-cheese-how-we-fooled-the-germans-in-the-second-world-war/

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Not an answer but I do like the fact that American wartime spy Virginia Hall (codename ARTEMIS among others) had a wooden leg with its own codename, CUTHBERT.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

vi) is CICERO, Elyesa Bazna

Wikipedia sa of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen

"During his time in Ankara, his Albanian valet Elyesa Bazna, known as Cicero regularly opened his mail and safe, passing any useful information on to German High Command; one of the more damaging spying incidents of World War II".

And of Bazna

"Bazna was paid £300,000 by the Abwehr which he kept hidden. After the war he tried to go into business but when his sterling notes were checked by the Bank of England they were found to be mostly counterfeit (see Operation Bernhard)."

[sbp.livejournal.com]

ii) is ZIGZAG, Eddie Chapman, a womanizing ex-Beefeater, ex-safe cracker who was in prison in the Channel Islands when the Germans invaded, became spy. Was flown back to England, charged with sabotaging the De Havilland (Mosquito) factory in Hatfield. But the British knew he was coming, picked him up, made him a double agent and faked the sabotage that convinced the Germans.

(Wikipedia page on Eddie Chapman)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

ix) is probably Wulf Schmidt, aka TATE to us and LEONHARD to the Germans. Wikipedia says LEONHARDT, but "Agent Tate: The True Wartime Story of Harry Williamson" says LEONHARD. (Google Books, Wikipedia)

"Wulf Schmidt, later known as Harry Williamson was a Danish citizen who during the Second World War became a double agent working for Britain against Nazi Germany under the codename Tate. ... Nigel West singled him out as "one of the seven spies who changed the world."

[sbp.livejournal.com]

iv) is TREASURE, aka Nathalie Sergueiew

"In 1943 she travelled to Spain, taking her beloved dog Babs with her. Sergueiew promptly contacted the MI5 representative in Madrid and reported herself as a German spy and offered to work for British Intelligence. ... British quarantine regulations meant that Babs was left behind at Gibraltar."

"She revealed her role as a double agent to her American boyfriend, and threatened to quit unless MI5 arranged for her dog to be brought from Spain. Matters came to a head in May 1944 when "Treasure" learned that Babs had died. She informed MI5 that she had a pre-arranged secret signal, which would indicate that she was under British control, and threatened to use it in revenge for the death of her dog."

Wikipedia.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

vii) is TRICYCLE, Pierre Popov, recruited by Johnny Jebsen who was anti-Nazi but volunteered as a Abwehr researcher so he could travel, and got Popov to make a report on which French politician might head a German-friendly French government after the fall of France. Ex- Prime Minister Laval became Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Vichy Government in the end.

Google Books "Codename Tricycle: The true story of the Second World War's most Extraordinary Double Agent (Dusko Popov)" by Russell Miller

Wikipedia.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

viii) also seems to be TRICYCLE. Same book. Popov was setting up a scheme for the Germans to pay their British agents, but the funds would actually go to the British. Once he'd convinced the Germans, he sent a coded telegram to the British for Eric Glass, a Jewish theatrical impressario in London. But he actually addressed it to Eric Sand. "Erik Sand" was the name on the account in the US that the money was going through. No Eric Sand existed, and the Germans could have picked up on this and wondered about the telegram.

Oh and then he used the money to humiliate a showy Lithuanian at baccarat and inspired part of Casino Royale.