For the next four years, Chapman worked as a double agent, a lone British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service who at one time volunteered to assassinate Hitler for his countrymen. Instead, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with a revolver, a wireless, and a cyanide pill, with orders from the Abwehr to blow up an airplane factory. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty inside the villain was a hero. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. If they had corrected their aim, many more lives could have been lost.Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. The misinformation that Chapman sent back to Berlin led the Germans to believe that their aim was perfect when in fact they were off. This was while my mother was working for the Office of Strategic Services in London, and she was right in the middle of it all. the vengeance weapons that Hitler sent to Britain right after the Normandy invasion. One of Zigzag’s jobs was to come to London for damage assessments of the V-1 and V-2 bombings.
It’s amazing how easily the Germans were duped. The Abwehr trained him and sent him to England where Chapman immediately contacted MI5 and agreed to become a double agent. Chapman fast-talked his way into becoming a spy. Unfortunately, he was in prison in the British Channel Islands when the Germans took over. He was handsome, charming, and he loved the ladies.
That included Eddie Chapman, German codename Fritz, MI5 codename Zigzag.Ĭhapman was a small time crook and conman. During the war, the indefatigable British intelligence captured and turned every German spy.
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre is the amazing story of World War II double agent Eddie Chapman.
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