ext_85631 ([identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] dubdobdee 2016-01-09 10:53 pm (UTC)

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)."

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