Uncovered documents reveal spy who fed information on Hitler's secrets

This might be of interest to some of you on this list
( NOT exatly B.P... )


February 13, 2010

Uncovered documents reveal spy who fed information on Hitler's secrets
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Ben Macintyre

MI6 obtained vital secrets from a spy operating at the very heart of 
Hitler's high command during the most crucial years of the war, newly 
discovered intelligence documents have revealed.

The secret agent, code-named "Knopf", furnished the intelligence 
service with information on Hitler's plans in the Mediterranean and on 
the Eastern Front, the health of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and even the 
location of the "Wolf's Lair" - the FÃŒhre's headquarters i Eastern 
Prussia.

Historians have tended to play down the wartime role of MI6 - in 
comparison with the crucial importance of the messages decoded at 
Bletchley Park - but the discovery of Agent Knopf by the Cambridge 
historian Paul Winter shows that Britain obtained accurate and highly 
valuable intelligence from a network of agents in the upper ranks of the 
Third Reich.

The documents, uncovered in the Churchill Archives in Cambridge and the 
National Archives, show that Knopf and his sub-agents alerted British 
Intelligence to German plans for an invasion of Malta in 1942, relayed 
Rommel's intentions in North Africa and revealed Hitler's fatal 
obsession with capturing Stalingrad on the Eastern Front..../snip/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7025406.ece

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7025671.ece