ext_85631 ([identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] dubdobdee 2016-01-09 10:28 pm (UTC)

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/

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